Entrinsik Informer Reviews

I like the ease of use along with the ability to use datasets which allow for faster response time. I also like the response time and care that the customer service team puts in to resolving issues as needed. I like the ability to use linked files without having to be linked using co-key field. The best thing I like is the Customer Support staff who always go above and beyond to help alleviate any issues our organization has.

One thing I dislike about Entrinsik Informer is that sometimes, I have to delete a field in a report and add it back for it to work. There are also a few errors that don't contain enough information to resolve some errors myself, I feel, so I have to contact Customer Support for help.

I would let others looking at Entrinsik Informer that this tool takes care of our needs as a college, and suspect it will take care of their needs as well. Customer service is outstanding.

A problem we are solving with Entrinsik Informer is we are able to have end users create their own ad hoc queries/datasets in which to run reports when needed which frees up time for IT professionals. A couple benefits we've realized are the timeliness of gathering data for reporting to upper management as well as a trust of our end-users to be able to be independent of IT for creating reports/datasets.

Created reports for easy access to multiple departments.

I would like more documentation for using Java script.

Entrinsik Informer is a great tool for reporting, easy to use for end users.

Getting information from Data base for listing, reporting, counting and statistic purposes.

Linkages with our main databases allowing for immediate reporting of data changes.

Some of the java-scripting is not entirely intuitive, but this is only on a minor percentage of our reports.

We have close to 5,000 reports in the system with over 1600 of them scheduled on a regular basis to be automatically sent to the people who need and use the data for analysis.

We have de-centralized our reporting and now have 140 authorized report-writers on our campus.

The software is intuitive, robust and capable to do just about anything you can think of.

Reporting made easy = end user eager adoption.

There is nothing bad here to report honestly.

Creating reports from multiple datasources helped greatly helped us migrate to an Oracle database and doublecheck that our data was correct on both sides. The discover option to create visuals we place into our portal was key in giving our end users a one stop shop to see what the data looks like in a snapshot to plan their day. I would be remiss if I didn't mention the incredible support staff at Entrinsik; always helpful, pleasant and responsive!

The visuals in Informer5 Datasets are SSSOOO easy to build and deploy

Will be glad when form Templates are finally available

Best reporting/dashboard for the MV market by far !!!

Giving staff access to relevant tables and columns so they can report however they like!

The program can be set up to search for numerous types of data and in different ways. It's a versatile program.

I have not found any problems with it. The program meets my needs.

Your IT department programmers can create numerous types of data gathering options with this program. Highly recommended!

I use Informer to gather data on a specific population of college students (RSOs) within our student database of tens of thousands of student records. The student database is an entirely different program, but Informer goes into the database and looks for special tags that are on the accounts of the specific students I'm searching for. Informer then creates a report telling me if these students are enrolled in the semester that I search. I have another Informer report that searches a specific class section and gives me the names and ages of all students in the class. I use this report for students with age restrictions. Entrinsik Informer has helped us meet federal and state requirements for managing this population of Higher Education students. It also always us to catch students who register for classes years later and may not have met disciplinary requirements. Informer gives us a heads up that they are back on our current rosters.

We use Informer mainly as a reporting tool for Colleague by Ellucian which is a Unidata environment. Unidata does not lend itself to reporting friendliness. There is no way to join files together other than manual means. With Informer, we don't have to import files into a separate environment. The software connects to our live data. Once the file structure, not data, has been recognized by Informer, then we can join files together in Informer. So starting in one file and then selecting on data or using column data from other files is very simple. Without writing custom programs for each report, this functionality is just not available in Unidata.

We use Informer with our Unidata environment along with a small bit of SQL. Once the files and tables are set up in Informer they are completely environment agnostic. They all look and operate the same and can be used together.

There is definitely some learning to do before you become proficient in writing reports.

This has been a tremendous time saver for us. Not only decreasing the time for report development but also enabling users to create their own reports.

We use Informer for ad hoc reporting. The one-and-done reports are usually quick to develop. We also use it for enterprise reporting that is used in summary or detailed form. One of my favorite features is the ability to schedule a report. I have users that want to see a fresh report at the same time every week or month or quarter. It is very easy to schedule the report to run and then email the results.

We also have situations where users don't need to see all the available data so Informer allows us to create limited views of the same files that might contain sensitive data. For example, we can report out of the HR module of our software without exposing compensation data to users that don't need to see that information.

As a university, we use the same software to report on enrollment, academics, alumni, fund raising, financial services, human resources, etc. Reports are developed and then it is very easy to share those with either individual users or with groups of users.

I like that Informer forms clear and easy reports to read.

I dislike that you do not have many options on producing a report.

More clear instructions on how to manage the application.

We produce reports on Informer that our other software cannot. It is done in real-time.

We use this product to pull queries from our very old and clunky database/CRM. If you do everything right it can be very useful. One feature I appreciate is that you can your own personal view (output) of a query without altering the original query itself (input), which is especially helpful if multiple people are using the same one.

Determining how to ask the system a data-oriented question in order to get the desired output is a challenge. If you're not a data person you'll need extensive training and support. I lean heavily on our tech dept for this.

This is helpful when you have a database or CRM that doesn't have a strong built-in reporting feature. For any little issues you can't figure out in the system, you can also alter via whatever software you use to export (for us it's Excel)

Informer has help me tackle projects or proposals with tangible and shareable data. It helps to address the shortcomings of our database system by serving as a tool that helps to output queries that we can't get otherwise.

The best thing about Informer is the ease of use.

As I have not set up the reports and only run and view, I have no problems.

Spending reports