The Model Repository Service is an application service in the Informatica domain that manages the Model repository. The Model repository stores metadata created by Informatica products in a relational database to enable collaboration among the products. Informatica Developer, the Data Integration Service, and the Administrator tool store metadata in the Model repository.

The Data Integration Service is an application service in the Informatica domain that performs data integration tasks for the Developer tool and for external clients.

The Content Management Service is an application service in the Informatica domain that manages reference data and is responsible for compiling rule specifications into mapplets. The Content Management Service provides reference data information to the Data Integration Service and to the Developer tool and Analyst tool. The Content Management Service stores reference data in a database that you specify.

The Analyst Service is an application service in the Informatica domain that runs Informatica Analyst. The Analyst Service manages the connection between the service components and the users who log in to Analyst tool. You can perform column and rule profiling, manage scorecards, and manage bad records and duplicate records in the Analyst tool. The Analyst Service stores profiling, scorecarding, and bad and duplicate record data in databases that you specify.

The domain configuration repository stores configuration metadata about the Informatica domain. It also stores user privileges and permissions.

The Model repository stores metadata for projects and folders and their contents, including all repository objects such as mappings and workflows. The repository also stores rules you apply during data preparation.