Choosing between Madison and System IDMC orgs

Madison and System IDMC orgs

Informatica Data Management Cloud (IDMC) is available to all UW System institutions, but UW-Madison has its own IDMC org and sub-orgs, funded by and intended for UW-Madison integrators. This document will help you determine whether you should use the Madison IDMC orgs or the UW System IDMC orgs.

Both Madison and System orgs have sub-orgs (or child orgs) for business units or institutions that have specific needs beyond what's provided in the shared environments. See Shared orgs and sub-orgs in IDMC for more information on sub-orgs.

Considerations

• IDMC is a tool used for data integration agnostic of source and target; it has no inherent data present in any of the orgs.
• There are no functional differences between Madison and System IDMC orgs, and both are licensed for equivalent connectors.
• The Secure Agent associated with each org can connect to any source or target with appropriate firewall changes.
• Madison's shared IDMC org and the support team that manages it are centrally funded for UW-Madison integrators and use cases.
• The IDMC org you choose should be based on the home institution of the use case or cases, regardless of the source, target, or scope of data being integrated.
• Cross-cutting use cases that span UW System — for example, shared ERPs like Workday — should be housed in the System org.

Examples

1. You are building an integration for a UW-Madison business unit whose application needs data about people and jobs from across UW System. You should use the UW-Madison IDMC org and will be supported by DoIT Enterprise Integration, because your use case serves a UW-Madison business purpose. Despite the system-wide scope of the data you're integrating, Madison funds usage and support of IDMC for you and your business unit.

2. You work in a UW-Madison business unit (e.g., Enterprise Business Systems) but are doing work funded by and on behalf of UW System (e.g., building integrations for Workday). Because the use case serves a UW System-wide business purpose, you should use the UW System IDMC org.

3. Consider a circumstance in which UW-Madison decides to change its integration platform vendor. While there are no plans to do this today, the impact of that decision should be limited to the scope of UW-Madison use cases and business units, not System use cases (e.g., Workday or UW System data lakes). If such a change would impact the ability to provide services to other institutions or across UW System, then that integration use case should use the UW System IDMC org.

UW System IDMC contact and support

If you have determined that you should use the UW System IDMC org, please contact Justin Weidner. You may also obtain support from the UW System-wide Integration Platform Community of Practice by emailing iPaaS-community-Practice@lists.wisconsin.edu.