The Administrator tool enables you to create and administer services, connections, and other domain objects.

The Analyst tool is a web-based application that enables you to analyze, profile, and create scorecards for data. You can also create and manage reference tables in the Analyst tool.

The Developer tool enables you to create and run mappings and other objects that enable you to access, transform, and write data to targets.

The command line interface offers hundreds of commands to assist in administering the Informatica domain, creating and running repository objects, administering security features, and maintaining domain repositories.

You can optionally deploy a bastion server as an element in the solution. The bastion server is a Windows instance installed with the Developer tool and the command line interface clients. The bastion server acts as a firewall for access to the network. It can also act as a remote Windows server that you can log in to run Informatica clients.