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What is Entrinsik Informer?
Entrinsik Informer is a web-based reporting and business intelligence application popular in the higher education vertical market. It helps organizations transform real-time data into actionable information by delivering ad-hoc reporting, data analysis, and interactive dashboards.
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- Multi-User Support (named login) (11)9.090%
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- Drill-down analysis (9)9.090%
- Formatting capabilities (10)8.181%
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Entrinsik Informer is a web-based reporting and business intelligence application popular in the higher education vertical market. It helps organizations transform real-time data into actionable information by delivering ad-hoc reporting, data analysis, and interactive dashboards.
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What is Entrinsik Informer?
Informer 5 from Entrinsik is a data discovery and analytics tool that aims to simplify the process of accessing, cleansing, blending, and analyzing data from multiple sources. According to the vendor, with Informer, companies can aggregate all their disparate data into a single platform using an intuitive, 100% web-based interface that replaces outdated query tools and complicated reporting systems.
The tool aims to eliminate the need for data warehouses and cubes, and eliminate complicated “views” and limited functionality. With extensible architecture, collaborative environment, and enterprise-level performance, Informer aims to deliver actionable insights and better, data-driven decisions for its customers.
Entrinsik Informer Features
BI Platform Features
- Supported: Administration via Web Interface
- Supported: Live Connection to External Data
- Supported: Snapshot of External Data
- Supported: In-memory data model
- Supported: Multi-Data Source Reporting (Blending)
Supported Data Sources Features
- Supported: MS Excel Workbooks
- Supported: Text Files (CSV, etc)
- Supported: Oracle
- Supported: MS SQL Server
- Supported: IBM DB2
- Supported: Postgres
- Supported: MySQL
- Supported: ODBC
- Supported: Cloudera Hadoop
- Supported: Hortonworks Hadoop
- Supported: SAP Hana
BI Standard Reporting Features
- Supported: Customizable dashboards
- Supported: Report Formatting Templates
Ad-hoc Reporting Features
- Supported: Drill-down analysis
- Supported: Formatting capabilities
- Supported: Report sharing and collaboration
Report Output and Scheduling Features
- Supported: Publish to Web
- Supported: Publish to PDF
- Supported: Report Versioning
- Supported: Report Delivery Scheduling
- Supported: Delivery to Remote Servers
Data Discovery and Visualization Features
- Supported: Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)
- Supported: Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization
Access Control and Security Features
- Supported: Multi-User Support (named login)
- Supported: Role-Based Security Model
- Supported: Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)
- Supported: Report-Level Access Control
- Supported: Table-Level Access Control (BI-layer)
- Supported: Field-Level Access Control (BI-layer)
Mobile Capabilities Features
- Supported: Responsive Design for Web Access
- Supported: Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile
Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding Features
- Supported: REST API
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Entrinsik Informer Technical Details
| Deployment Types | On-premise, Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based |
|---|---|
| Operating Systems | Windows, Linux, Mac |
| Mobile Application | No |
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Entrinsik Informer is a web-based reporting and business intelligence application popular in the higher education vertical market. It helps organizations transform real-time data into actionable information by delivering ad-hoc reporting, data analysis, and interactive dashboards.
Reviewers rate Publish to Web and Report Versioning and Role-Based Security Model highest, with a score of 9.1.
The most common users of Entrinsik Informer are from Mid-sized Companies (51-1,000 employees).
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Entrinsik Informer is a versatile reporting tool that has transformed the way data is accessed and analyzed on campus. Users find Informer easy to grasp and use, making training a breeze. With its seamless integration with multiple systems, Informer allows users to create and manipulate data as needed, eliminating the need for manual gathering of report data and saving hours of time. The software empowers end users to govern their own data and find the information they need with minimal support. IT departments have control over access, limiting what each user sees based on their access level. Additionally, the scheduling feature in Informer has been a game changer for users by allowing reports to run automatically and be delivered via email, streamlining workflows and processes. Informer's ability to provide accurate and timely reports from multiple databases has increased usage campus-wide, with different groups of users running created reports. It serves as a single point for querying multiple systems and databases, allowing users to create their own reports and reducing the burden on IT programmers. Overall, Informer has solved a multitude of problems for colleges and universities by addressing quick and complex reporting needs across various departments and empowering users to make informed decisions based on up-to-date information.
Users have made several recommendations for Entrinsik Informer based on their experiences. Many users find Informer to be a useful tool for reporting that is easy to use for end users. Furthermore, users highly recommend Informer for its ability to create various data gathering options and its outstanding customer service. Additionally, users have found that Informer is a tremendous time saver as it decreases report development time and enables users to create their own reports. Users also suggest using Informer when a database or CRM lacks a strong built-in reporting feature and recommend using external software like Excel for any necessary alterations.
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March 26, 2015
Reporting made easy through Entrinsik Informer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Entrinsik Informer is used primarily by our administrative offices, including the Registrar, Accounting,Dean of Students, Residence Life, Human Resources, and others. It provides a user-friendly method for pulling information from our database. It has simplified the process for folks who are not as technically savvy as others. The reports provided cover budget, student, and staff information in easy-to-use formats.
March 18, 2015
Informer provides great value to our customer base.
We resell Informer to our customer base and it's a great tool for them. It allows them to built their own reports and dashboards and gives them access to the data that they need. This gives our customers a lot more flexibility in the types of reports they are able to use to manage their business.
March 18, 2015
Entrinsik Informer ROCKS!
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Our institution uses Entrinsik Informer across the whole institution. It is used primarily to allow end-users of data the ability to create and manipulate data when & how they need. Prior to Informer, our end-users were not able to get data when they wanted it. Also, the ability for them to run a live excel spreadsheet, rather than operate inside Informer has alleviated any user trepidation about their ability to run reports. Training has been lessened - once a user is trained on live excel specifics, they will run any other Informer report without hesitation.
February 04, 2015
The Little Engine That Could
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
We use Informer in many departments with more coming online all the time. It's quick and easy to use and training is a breeze. Quite simply, it's been the best tool we have in our arsenal.
January 05, 2015
Get Consistent real-time Unidata Reporting with Informer.
Entrinsik Informer is a powerful web-based ERP db operational reporting tool and business intelligence solution. Informer is used here at the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff across all administrative offices to report on data contained in Ellucian Colleague. Informer is our primary real time data extraction and administrative reporting solution. Here at UAPB we utilize Informer hourly – almost around the clock. Using Informer's easy to follow UI and Informer's Live Excel features, the power of launching/executing created reports is moved to the person that needs the information.
November 11, 2014
Make Life Easier with Entrinsik Informer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Our entire college uses Informer. It solves a multitude of problems for our college. In addition to select reporting functionality for a specific issue that arises, it also gives us the ability to email reports daily to review and correct various issues with registration, addresses, data inaccuracies, etc. Our college uses Colleague and Informer provides a seamless integration between the two systems.
November 10, 2014
So, easy to use a hamster could do it
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Informer is being used by Development for selections, mailing lists, analyitics, auditing, financial reports, you name it.
November 06, 2014
Informer as a User Friendly Solution
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Informer is being used throughout the college community. The Informer reporting tool allows users on-demand access to operational data in order to make effective business decisions.
November 04, 2014
Client converting to SQL
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
We are currently using Informer in a Unidata environment and are in the process of converting to a SQL environment. We use the product across the entire university. Informer allows our users to generate reports very easily. We have a few users the create and modify their own reports and are in the processing of training other users to begin creating/modify reports.
November 04, 2014
Great low-cost Reporting Tool with Superb Support Staff
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
All departments are currently using Informer reporting to report on data, create saved lists for our ERP processes and to upload data to other database systems. Informer reports helps us to address data entry problems in our ERP system.
November 04, 2014
Entrinsik Informer Review
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Entrinsik Informer is used by Information Systems department, Finance Department and Human Resources. There are other departments across campus that have LIVE excel spreadsheets from Informer, but they do not have the access.
It is has helped with many reports that are needed for the different areas across campus. I've created many reports from queries that are no longer possible with Colleague.
It is has helped with many reports that are needed for the different areas across campus. I've created many reports from queries that are no longer possible with Colleague.
November 04, 2014
Why Chapman depends on Informer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Informer is being use by all departments at Chapman University on a daily basis. Informer provides accurate and timely reports, analyzing all aspects of an educational organization. Some departments need to incorporate data from other databases, and Informer seamlessly accesses that information and integrates that data with our enterprise database. When we have questions Entrinsik responds quickly. Informer is a great product, with a great organization.
November 04, 2014
Entrinsik Informer reduces support and training while improving reporting and access to data
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Entrinsik Informer is being used by all departments in our University to easily allow end users access to the data they need, as well as the ability to quickly develop and share custom reports. It serves as a bridge to expose our Datatel data in a MUCH friendlier manner than our previous reporting tools and has greatly reduced the amount of support we have to offer day-to-day users.
November 04, 2014
Easy reporting with Informer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Informer is our institutional reporting tool of choice. Many of our administrative departments use Informer, but mostly use LiveExcel's created for them by Information Technology. It allows for quick access to important information in an easy to read format, thus allowing administrators to make good business decisions.
November 04, 2014
Informed about Informer!
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Entrinsik Informer is a web-based reporting tool that connects to our Datatel (ellucian) Colleague database (Unidata). It is a transactional database that allows us to access live and real-time data. There are probably six departments using it at our organization. I am in the College Advancement department (alumni relations and fundraising). It utilizes a GUI user interface that makes it so much easier to write reports rather than having to write programming code. We have four staff in our department who are heavy users and about 15 staff who are running "self-service" reports (they can't change the files, fields, select statements, etc.). No matter who runs the reports, we can export to Excel, Adobe PDF, Saved lists, and other options. The most transformation feature was the ability to schedule reports to email to users. Now, my staff and I can send daily, weekly, monthly and quarterly reports that we used to have to remember to send previously!
September 15, 2014
Entrinsik Informer usability review.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Entrinsik Informer is our ERP reporting and data extraction tool used across two campuses. It allows users to get *their* data without relying on IT Services. There was a change made to the old method of retrieving data from our central ERP system so a replacement was sought out which turned out to be Entrinsik Informer. It's really good because you can export in a variety of formats. If there was one minor issue with it it would be the lack of an ability to format report output.
September 12, 2014
Entrinsik Informer
Informer is used across campus for ad-hoc and regular reporting. It has allowed the college to consolidate reports so that multiple departments are able to utilize the same report instead of recreating the wheel. In some departments, it has also allowed end users to gather information themselves without relying on IT.
June 27, 2014
Informed
While working at Holy Family University in Philadelphia I used Informer everyday. Having the ability to have all of my necessary reports available with one click ensured processing of information in a timely manner for myself or for those requesting it. As a valuable tool, Informer enhanced my job experience.
April 24, 2014
New to Entrinsik Informer but very happy.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Informer is available across the whole university and is currently being used to address end-users reporting/data needs.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Informer is used organization-wide for operational reporting and we are implementing dashboards and analytics now. We have used Informer since 2007 and it has been an excellent tool that empowers our end users to govern their own data and find the information they need with minimal support.
April 23, 2014
Versatile reporting tool from a company who listens
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Informer is used all over campus by numerous departments on a daily basis. It's used mostly to retrieve reports from Colleague, but we also use it on other databases such as our calendar database, to send out weekly and daily reminders to security and campus life employees about what's going on, and Slate, our admissions database. Informer has been a terrific reporting tool, easily retrieving data from different sources.
April 23, 2014
Resellers point of view review
As a reseller of Informer we are using the product as multi database reporting tool. Our typical implantation is for reporting against client Unidata databases, providing a simple, easy to use tool for our clients to view their data. From running month ends to aging summaries, the application is typically used by accounting departments and system analysts. We have also been able to integrate Informer within our own software with positive results.
April 19, 2014
Informer works for us
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Informer is actively used throughout our organization. Departments use it not only to extract data and various reports for analysis, but also as an integral step in the workflow of key business processes.
April 16, 2014
Great Reporting Tool
Score 6 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Entrinsik Informer is used by our Institutional Research Department to setup reports for our organization. Many different departments use it for many different types of reports, anywhere from financial standings to privacy restrictions. It allows our staff to access information through the reports without having access to our complicated unidata system.
April 16, 2014
My Review of Entrinsik Informer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
We use Entrinsik Informer across all departments at our University. It is our primary reporting application and is used across multiple data sources, including Colleague and ODS. It empowers our users to analyze and report on the data available to them, in order to make better business decisions.