Informatica for NewBie Sereis

with all the rush before the holidays for getting things done - I really wanted to start this series before the Holidays. As mentioned in my earlier post , for somebody with ETL experience it gets difficult to evaluate different tools because not many are available out there to download and evaluate. On the same note except for manuals there is not much information on the web for ETL tools in general. I am hoping this series will help a few Niewbie's to Informatica(to jumpstart their work with Informatica) and ETL concepts explained with Informatica (Thanks to Mark Rittman for pointing out a possible site for an evaluation copy - Mark, finding the eval copy and the eval license codes was a treasure hunt on edelivery).

The series will cover the following Topics
Informatica Fundamentals (PartI and Part II)
Informatica Eval Installation
Informatica Admin Tasks
Informatica Designer Tasks
Informatica getting familiar with Workflow Manager and Workflow Monitor
Other Things to remember about Informatica
things to remember in the ETL world(basic concepts)

If you are following this specific series - please drop in comments and let me know if the series helps you get familiar with the fundamentals of Informatica.