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What is Entrinsik Informer?

Founded in 1984, Entrinsik is an established, global software company based in Raleigh, North Carolina. Over 3,000 organizations in many industries around the world use Entrinsik software every day. Our state of the art solutions improve efficiency, productivity, and streamline daily operations Informer 5 is a robust, extensible data discovery and analytics platform that simplifies the process of accessing, cleansing, blending, and analyzing on-prem and cloud data. Aggregate disparate data using a single web-based platform to create a cohesive, curated, governed data hub for self-service data analysis. Explore, visualize and analyze relevant data on the fly. Securely publish Reports and collaborate with colleagues. Generate Dashboards that consolidate critical performance metrics. Informer is used extensively within various industries including Higher Education, Insurance, Manufacturing & Distribution, Healthcare, Public Safety, Not-for-Profit, Government, CRM, and many others. Informer Embedded is the perfect choice for software applications looking to provide purposeful, self-service analytics within or complementing their solution. Integration is quick and seamless with our heavily experienced and results-driven in-house team. You can choose your integration path with options from inlined content to external, connected but separate full applications. All options are entirely customizable and white-labeled to match the look and feel of your brand flawlessly so that you can provide critical insights without having to sacrifice your software’s identity. Contact us at informersales@entrinsik.com, 888-703-0016 for access to the Informer Sandbox to get a feel for the platform on your own or to schedule a one-on-one conversation or demo. Let us help you uncover insights in your data.

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Product Description

Web-based, operational reporting and business intelligence solution

How do you position yourself against your competitors?

Informer achieved 45 top rankings in the BARC BI & Analytics Survey 22, the world's largest and most comprehensive survey of business intelligence end-users including best price-to-value in the entire survey. Informer was also top-ranked for distribution of reports, performance satisfaction, operational BI, project success, vendor support, implementer support, customer satisfaction, functionality, ease of use, sales experience, data preparation, competitive win rate, product satisfaction, and ad hoc query.


Seller Details
Seller
Entrinsik
Year Founded
1984
HQ Location
Raleigh, NC - North Carolina
Twitter
@Entrinsik
484 Twitter followers
LinkedIn® Page
www.linkedin.com
36 employees on LinkedIn®

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Recent Entrinsik Informer Reviews

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Verified UserMid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"Excellent Reporting Tool!"
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...
Naz N.
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Naz N.Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"Perfect tool for easy reporting."
Created reports for easy access to multiple departments.
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Verified UserSmall-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"Very flexible report/dashboard toolset"
The visuals in Informer5 Datasets are SSSOOO easy to build and deploy
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Entrinsik Informer Media

Entrinsik Informer Demo - Discover - Discover New Insights Into Every Aspect Of Your Organization
With Discover, Informer does a lot of the thinking for you by automatically serving-up relevant Visuals based on the Filters and type of Fields you select. Informer elevates the roles of end-users from data collectors into data analysts. How? Informer makes it easy to spot patterns, opportunities...
Entrinsik Informer Demo - Reports - Self-Service, On Demand Reporting
When it comes to analyzing data, a picture is worth a thousand rows. Informer’s Data Visualizations are powerful tools that enable you to quickly create interactive trend and multi-series charts, traditional spreadsheet-style grids, graphs, and maps with global colors, all kinds of custom visuals...
Entrinsik Informer Demo - Datasets - One Version of the Truth
Informer enables faster access to data while providing greater control by utilizing Informer Datasets — curated subsets of your data. Datasets can be refreshed immediately when you need real-time information, or on a schedule to reduce the number of hits to your production database.
Entrinsik Informer Demo - Teams - A Foundation For Collaboration
With Teams, each of your groups can store their data in their own Dataset. By setting granular-level access privileges to prevent other groups from changing their data, they ensure data governance and confidently share their Dataset with various groups within the organization.
Entrinsik Informer Demo - Integrated Rental Using Informer Embedded
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What do you like best about Entrinsik Informer?

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Entrinsik Informer?

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Entrinsik Informer:

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Entrinsik Informer solving and how is that benefiting you?

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Entrinsik Informer?

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

Reporting made easy = end user eager adoption. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Entrinsik Informer?

There is nothing bad here to report honestly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Entrinsik Informer solving and how is that benefiting you?

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! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

John B.
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Coordinator, Management Information Services
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What do you like best about Entrinsik Informer?

Linkages with our main databases allowing for immediate reporting of data changes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Entrinsik Informer?

Some of the java-scripting is not entirely intuitive, but this is only on a minor percentage of our reports. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Entrinsik Informer solving and how is that benefiting you?

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Naz N.
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Programmer Analyst
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What do you like best about Entrinsik Informer?

Created reports for easy access to multiple departments. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Entrinsik Informer?

I would like more documentation for using Java script. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Entrinsik Informer:

Entrinsik Informer is a great tool for reporting, easy to use for end users. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Entrinsik Informer solving and how is that benefiting you?

Getting information from Data base for listing, reporting, counting and statistic purposes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Entrinsik Informer?

The visuals in Informer5 Datasets are SSSOOO easy to build and deploy Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Entrinsik Informer?

Will be glad when form Templates are finally available Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Entrinsik Informer:

Best reporting/dashboard for the MV market by far !!! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Entrinsik Informer solving and how is that benefiting you?

Giving staff access to relevant tables and columns so they can report however they like! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Jamie S.
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Programmer Analyst
Higher Education
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What do you like best about Entrinsik Informer?

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Entrinsik Informer?

There is definitely some learning to do before you become proficient in writing reports. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Entrinsik Informer:

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Entrinsik Informer solving and how is that benefiting you?

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Higher Education
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What do you like best about Entrinsik Informer?

The program can be set up to search for numerous types of data and in different ways. It's a versatile program. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Entrinsik Informer?

I have not found any problems with it. The program meets my needs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Entrinsik Informer:

Your IT department programmers can create numerous types of data gathering options with this program. Highly recommended! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Entrinsik Informer solving and how is that benefiting you?

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Higher Education
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What do you like best about Entrinsik Informer?

I like that Informer forms clear and easy reports to read. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Entrinsik Informer?

I dislike that you do not have many options on producing a report. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Entrinsik Informer:

More clear instructions on how to manage the application. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Entrinsik Informer solving and how is that benefiting you?

We produce reports on Informer that our other software cannot. It is done in real-time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

J. Nicole W.
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Assistant Dean of Students for Diversity & Inclusion
Higher Education
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Entrinsik Informer?

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Entrinsik Informer?

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Entrinsik Informer:

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) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Entrinsik Informer solving and how is that benefiting you?

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Higher Education
UH
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What do you like best about Entrinsik Informer?

Once reports have been created, it is generally simple to modify them for different uses as a secondary uses. With a bit of familiarity with the product, reports can be manipulated easily by a secondary user that would otherwise eat up the primary user's time, time that could be better spent creating more complicated reports. Creating reports based on saved lists (utilizing Colleague Advancement) is a very effective way to pull information for any size group of donors or alumni very easily. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Entrinsik Informer?

Creating (as opposed to simply modifying) reports as a secondary user is difficult and not as user-friendly as would be ideal. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Entrinsik Informer solving and how is that benefiting you?

Donation reporting and alumni involvement. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.