Informatica MDM Business Entity Services

Learn to create reference entities—address type, phone type, party type, and electronic address type—via the provisioning tool, selecting the base object, defining fields and columns, enabling state management, and publishing.

Configure a customer business entity in the provisioning tool by modeling base objects, child entities (person, phone, electronic address, customer address), and their fields and lookups, and publish.

Configure a customer business entity view in the provisioning tool. Add fields for customer name and type, model child views for person, phone, electronic address, and customer address; publish.

Configure the business entity to view transformation to map customer data into a view, including phone, electronic address, and address groups, with direct transformations and 1-to-many considerations.

Create a business entity to business entity transformation, customer to customer, map fields such as customer name and type, add child components (phone, electronic address, person, customer address), then publish.

Explains how the BES configuration is stored in three key database tables—Cryptococcus config, c repos component instance, and c repos component settings—tracking components, views, and blob data.

Explore how Swagger documents business entity services APIs, access the Swagger UI on localhost, and try out and execute requests with get, post, put, and delete to see responses.

Learn how query parameters in rest requests filter, paginate, and expand the result set to shorten the response, using key and value pairs like records to return and record states.

Explore business entity services APIs in Informatica MDM, enabling real-time integration, CRUD, search, and merge operations to synchronize data with external systems while ensuring data quality and best practices.

Learn how the get metadata api returns the structure of a business entity, including fields, data types, sizes, security, display labels, lookups, and defaults via an http get request.

Use the read business entity API via a get request in Postman to fetch root records and related child entities, with headers, query parameters, and content metadata.

Learn to read a record by PK source object value using the read API, retrieve customer data, and expand results with the depth parameter to include related tables.

Explore using the read API to fetch system fields by setting read system fields to true, enabling creator and create date attributes in responses, with depth options for child records.

Populating the PK source object in Informatica MDM business entities by sending a rest request with a key field, enabling dynamic source-system values for both parent and child records.

Create a customer business entity with child and grandchild components, demonstrating one-to-many and one-to-one relationships. Include address type lookups and address fields in the request.

Demonstrates updating a parent and its child in Informatica MDM business entity services using a POST request, passing parent and child row IDs to update customer name and phone number.

Use the PK source object value from the admin source to update a record in the MDM system, verify changes via Postman requests, and confirm the updated party name.

Use the put method to update a single record in the party table within Informatica MDM, distinguishing put from post when updating only a child record.