Secure Agent

: Secure Agent is the program that runs tasks and enables secure communication between your organization and

Informatica Intelligent Cloud Services

. You must download the Secure Agent on all the systems from which you want to use

Mass Ingestion Applications

. When you run an

application ingestion

job, the metadata of the ingestion task is pushed to the Secure Agent which enables the ingestion job to process the data.

Database Ingestion service

: The Database Ingestion service is a microservice that is used by Secure Agent to run both

application ingestion

and

database ingestion

tasks. The Database Ingestion service is automatically downloaded to the system when you download the Secure Agent.

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interface

:

Informatica Intelligent Cloud Services

provides a web-based interface to create and deploy an

application ingestion

task. When you deploy the task, an executable ingestion job is created for the task.

Source and target APIs

: The

application ingestion

job uses the source APIs to retrieve the data from the source objects and the target APIs to load the data to the target. For an incremental load operation, the ingestion job identifies the changes that are made to the source objects after a specific date and time and retrieves the changes at intervals defined in the associated ingestion task.