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End of supportmedium impact

Informatica PowerCenter 10.5.x standard support ended

PowerCenter 10.5.x general support ends March 31, 2026, after which customers must buy extended support at extra cost for one more year.

In effectsince Mar 31, 2026 (200 days ago)

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Who’s affected

Teams still running Informatica PowerCenter 10.5.x, self-managed or otherwise. General support ended March 31, 2026, so they must now buy extended support or move off the version.

Not affected: Customers already on a newer PowerCenter version or on another Informatica product, and teams that have already migrated off PowerCenter.

What it costs

Extended support is an extra-cost add-on for one additional year of coverage, and the record gives no price, so get a quote. After that year the choice is an upgrade or a migration, both of which take engineering effort.

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When to act

General support has already ended, so the extended-support year is running down, and a PowerCenter migration or upgrade typically takes months to plan, build and test.

Blast radius: Scheduled PowerCenter workflows and mappings, the downstream warehouse tables and BI dashboards they feed, and any support or security-compliance commitments that require a vendor-supported version.

What should you do? decision tree

  1. you are on PowerCenter 10.5.x and have not bought extended support
    Email icare@informatica.com now for an extended support quote, so you are not running unsupported.
  2. A newer PowerCenter version is available to you under your licence and your mappings are compatible
    Plan an in-place upgrade and test it in a non-production environment before the extended-support year runs out.
  3. you were already planning to leave PowerCenter for a cloud ELT or integration tool
    Buy extended support as a bridge only, and size it to cover your migration timeline.
  4. your workflow count is large and migration cannot finish within the extended-support year
    Prioritise by business criticality, migrate the simplest workflows first, and ask Informatica what happens if you need extended support beyond the year.
  5. none of the above fits
    Get the extended-support quote, run the support-runway planner, and treat the one-year window as your hard deadline.

Options

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The facts straight from the source

Vendor / product
Informatica · PowerCenter 10.5.x
Change
End of support
Effective
Mar 31, 2026
After general support ends, customers must purchase extended support at an extra cost for an additional year of coverage.
Plans affected
PowerCenter 10.5.x
Existing contracts
Extended support is available for an additional year at extra cost; customers are directed to contact icare@informatica.com for options.
Source
network.informatica.com
Evidence
“PowerCenter 10.5.x will be supported until March 31, 2026, when the general support ends. After that date, customers would have to purchase extended support at an extra cost for an additional year of coverage.”

Date as quoted: “PowerCenter 10.5.x will be supported until March 31, 2026, when the general support ends.”

Price as quoted: “purchase extended support at an extra cost”

Facts above are extracted from the source and checked word-for-word before publishing. The guidance sections are AI-assisted analysis based only on those facts: a starting point, not legal or procurement advice. Spotted an error? Tell us.

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