Item: Entrinsik Informer
Rating: 8
Author: Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Entrinsik Informer

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

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.

Pros and Cons

Pros

Setting up a report is quite easy for end users to manage
For the logging in process it interacts with our identity management system
It's very easy to download data into a PDF or spreadsheet/csv file.

Cons

Lack of customising a finished looking report
Doesn't work the same was as Crystal or Access reports ... the interface is different.
Customising a computed column is a little tricky.

Alternatives Considered

Microsoft Access

As stated it works well for extractions, but lacks report design capability. One other thing it does well is query multiple database platforms at the same time. E.g. mysql and unidata.

Likelihood to Renew

From what I understand, compared to other available products, its priced quite reasonably. They've recently released new dashboard design capability, which for this tool is quite new, but compared to other daskboard tools available, it may be a little lacking.

Likelihood to Recommend

Entrinsik Informer works well as a data extraction tool and the end user doesn't need to know anything about writing queries. One question would be if a person is looking for a solution that they can give to higher management that is formatted and easily understood. This tool is lacking in that regard.

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