Powerfull cheap till with minor drowbacks
May 09, 2016
Powerfull cheap till with minor drowbacks
Score 7 out of 10
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Overall Satisfaction with Entrinsik Informer
Entrinsik informer tool is used for delivering daily, weekly, bi-weekly, monthly and yearly reports. In addition to this it is used to export data in csv format and deliver it to other systems to be used. It is used by administrative offices for daily work. It helps users with no technical skills or knowledge to create reports on their own without necessarily knowing database relationships or how to write a query.
- Easy to use - no technical skills required to understand how to get a report with basic data that user needs. It is simple drag and drop which is very useful for many users.
- Easy to maintain - for IT administrators updating the system is super easy. Once it is set up very little to no maintenance is required.
- Easy to set up - When connecting to databases it is easy define the connection and the username and password. It is a bit tricky with unidata databases as you have to set up one "additional" subroutine to be initialized once the informer connects.
- Super cheap - compared to other reporting tools this is like fraction of that cost with the same functionality.
- It can [eat] your resources - if your query is big or got into some endless loop which is possible) it will use all RAM you dedicated it to a jetty server and it will make your CPU go to 100% which is bad if you are running other applications as it would have serious impact.
- It is bundled with Jetty server - and Jetty server is not a very nice web server to work with and can be complicated. I really don't understand if they have a Java application why .war file wouldn't run on Tomcat that we already have in use so it requires additional software.
- If number of reports is big it becomes very slow when loading main page and reports.
- It does not have a limit on number of columns which is bad for everyday user in two ways: They think they can put 30+ columns and use it as report - who is going to read 30+ column report? Having 30+ columns will slow down the application for all users and eat all of your server resources.
- It will potentially have a performance impact on unidata database when executing a large report. Number of fields should be limited.
- SAP Business Objects
Very cheap solution with 90% same features as top software solutions