Informer 2025.1.0: New Ways to Unlock Your Data’s Potential
Informer 2025.1.0 introduces updates that make AI-powered tools more accessible and improve how you work with your data. This release brings AI licensing to all users with flexible, usage-based pricing, along with new features like Magic Visual and expanded Libraries Integrations, helping you get more value from your data.
AI Licensing Now Accessible for Everyone
With Informer 2025.1.0, Informer AI features are now available to all users through a flexible, usage-based licensing model. Whether you’re automating workflows, analyzing Datasets, or brainstorming strategic solutions, use AI Assistants to help you work more efficiently and effectively.
Leverage Informer Copilot, a feature designed to simplify advanced tasks. Use it when you need to craft JavaScript for Powerscripts or generate native SQL queries. Copilot removes complexity, making every user feel like a power user.
Informer AI Help gives you direct access to the Informer Help Center. Ask questions or search for support and get the answers you need faster and easier.
Key Features:
- Flexible Usage: Pay only for what you use.
- Governance and Transparency: Set usage limits per User or Assistant and monitor activity to maintain oversight and control.
- In-App Management: Add usage credits and manage billing directly in Informer.
By bringing AI capabilities to everyone, this licensing model puts advanced AI tools at your fingertips, saving time, improving workflows, and helping you focus on what matters most.
Magic Visual: Simplify Data Visualization and Drive Decisions
Magic Visual changes the way you interact with data. Describe the Visuals you need in natural language, and Informer will generate them instantly—whether it’s a bar chart, pie chart, or trend analysis.
Magic Visual is more than a visualization tool; it helps you explore and act on the patterns and opportunities hidden in your data. Use it to:
- Track trends and performance over time.
- Spot anomalies that signal risks or opportunities.
- Analyze customer behavior to guide engagement strategies.
- Monitor KPIs with actionable suggestions for improvement.
By simplifying how you create and analyze Visuals, Magic Visual empowers you to focus on decisions, not the tools.
Note: Magic Visual requires Dashboards and AI to be enabled on your license.
Libraries: Streamline Your File Integration
Libraries now connect Informer to Microsoft OneDrive, Box, and GitHub, making it easier to include institutional files in your analysis. By integrating these file systems, Libraries bring previously disconnected data into unified access.
When paired with AI Assistants, Libraries:
- Expand AI’s knowledge base to deliver more accurate and relevant results.
- Extract critical information from Reports, spreadsheets, PDFs, and more directly in Informer.
- Find overlooked opportunities hidden in previously disconnected file systems.
By connecting your files directly to Informer, Libraries transform documents and unstructured data into actionable resources, leveraging your file-based data to support smarter decisions.
Explore More Ways to Maximize Informer’s Potential
Don’t forget to explore features from our last release, including the AI Assistant Template Processor, Conditional Formatting, and Theming, to ensure you’re getting the most out of Informer. These tools are designed to improve efficiency, enhance data visualization, and create a more customized experience.
AI Assistant Template Processor: Automate Smarter Reporting
Use AI Assistants to populate Templates with dynamic content automatically. Configure questions, assign responses, and eliminate manual data entry to streamline reporting.
Conditional Formatting: Highlight What Matters Most
Bring clarity to your data with Conditional Formatting. Apply colors, bold text, or other formatting options to emphasize trends, anomalies, and key metrics.
Theming: Customize
Adjust the appearance of your Informer instance by overriding its default CSS styles. Partners, you can now customize Informer’s look and feel with Theming that aligns with your Partner branding. Upload a custom masthead and favicon, or use CSS for advanced styling across the platform. With these customization options, the possibilities are yours!
Discover the Possibilities with Informer 2025.1.0
Informer 2025.1.0 expands AI access to everyone with flexible licensing for AI Assistants, AI Help, and Copilot making it easier to integrate AI into your daily workflows. From creating dynamic visualizations with Magic Visual to integrating external files with Libraries, this release is designed to help you achieve more with less.
Ready to see these features in action?
Join us for the Informer 2025.1.0 webinar on Tuesday, March 25, at 11 AM EST. Randall Williams, Entrinsik’s Director of Informer Training & Curriculum Development, will walk through the latest features and show how they can help you work smarter and drive meaningful results. Click here and register today!
Informer 5.10: Improving Data Access and Transparency
Entrinsik’s commitment to your organization’s data accessibility and security continues with the release of Informer 5.10, the latest version of our data analytics, visualization, and reporting software. This release also boosts Informer AI Assistants, allowing users to get more out of their data using artificial intelligence.
Improved data accessibility and security
Data accessibility – both inside your organization and to external stakeholders and customers – is critical in today's business environment.
When your data is accessible, your employees will make educated decisions and react quickly to market changes. They also will spend less time searching for and wrangling data and more time on efforts that impact the bottom line. More accessible data increases efficiency, which translates to reduced operating costs.
Of course, securing your data also minimizes risks related to unauthorized disclosure or manipulation. And it protects your organization’s reputation, building the trust and confidence of your customers.
So, how does Informer 5.10 enhance data accessibility and security?
- It introduces Integrations, a new way for users to connect from Informer to outside APIs through OAuth. This allows Informer to securely access and manage data from third-party software, such as Salesforce, QuickBooks, Jira, or Zendesk. From Informer, users will only have access to data within third-party applications that they would natively.
- It enables users with MFA enabled to migrate from an on-prem instance to Informer cloud, ensuring uninterrupted security during the transition.
Upping our AI Game
Informer 5.10 also continues Entrinsik’s foray into AI, with significant improvements to AI Assistants. Here’s how:
- By using Integrations with AI Assistants, users can securely interact with their data in third-party applications while leveraging the power of Assistants. Informer becomes the central hub for interacting with organizational data across applications!
- Through AI Assistant Switcher, users can interact with different AI Assistants in the same interface. This tool models how we communicate. It allows users to effortlessly switch between different AI Assistants, each tailored for specific tasks or functions.
- Users can save their AI Assistant instructions and apply them across different Assistants, saving time and effort. By storing commonly used instructions, users can deploy these commands and automatically create a new AI Assistant.
Want to learn more about Informer 5.10 and AI Assistants? Register for our 5.10 webinar.
Our Journey in Elevating Informer with AI
As Entrinsik’s Chief Product Officer, I’ve had the privilege of steering the development of Informer AI Assistants, an initiative sparked a year and a half ago by our CEO, Brad Leupen. This ambitious, new product uses artificial intelligence to transform how users engage with Informer, Entrinsik’s data reporting and analytics software.
By last summer, Brad and Vice President of Informer Engineering Andrea Vega led our team in developing early versions of Informer AI. We couldn’t wait to reveal it at our user conference, Entrinsicon, last September (2023).
We were elated at the enthusiasm and excitement that ensued! Customers immediately grasped how they could seamlessly use Informer AI to accelerate their work and extract insights from their data. This underscored the transformative potential of this innovation.
Our work was just beginning.
The Early phase of Informer AI
Soon after Entrinsicon, members of our Informer Advisory Council (IAC) – a customer user group - became our initial Informer AI Pilot sites. Their feedback identified key improvement areas for user interaction and for sharpening communication between the user and AI. We also gained insight into the ways customers foresee using Informer AI and the potential that lay ahead. They wanted to leverage the data inside Informer to answer targeted questions outside of Informer.
This is when the idea of Informer AI Assistants was born! We didn’t want to be just another AI chatbot. We had bigger ideas.
Informer AI Assistants lead the way
We engineered Informer AI Assistants to be intentional, loaded with specific knowledge, skilled for the objective at hand, and grounded by Informer’s adherence to Data Governance. Thus, an AI Assistant has targeted secure conversations and capabilities, which mitigates the effects of hallucinations that plague general AI. Customers can create an expert AI Assistant for every purpose!
We added more Pilot sites and began partnering with all Pilot sites to create AI Assistants for their real-world use cases. They were building AI Assistants for targeted constituents that even surpassed our ideas like an AI Assistant integrated with Microsoft Teams, Insurance Policy Comparison Assistant, Alumni Giving Assistant. just to name a few. We refined AI within Informer and carved it out as one such AI Assistant - the Informer Copilot - to reduce manual tasks, accelerate content creation, and elevate technical skills like writing JavaScript in an instant.
In all, AI Assistants empower users to fully use organizational data by simplifying complex tasks, answering user queries, and offering actionable insights. Already, our Pilot sites are using AI Assistants to not only serve up information and do analysis, but also to brainstorm and strategize. And the most exciting part? This is all impacting their bottom line in savings of time and money!
What lies ahead with Informer AI Assistants
As we continue to develop Informer AI Assistants, we envision users conversing with different AI Assistants as routinely as they do with coworkers and taking immediate action from within an AI Assistant. We see students using an Informer AI Assistant as their go-to for navigating their academic pursuits - from finding out what courses they still need to take, to helping them study for a Chemistry test. The potential we have in supporting a student’s path is particularly exciting to me as a mom!
Our journey is just beginning as we strive to empower customers to harness the power of AI to make the most informed decisions supported by robust and secure data. We are committed to learning from customer feedback and regularly enhancing our offerings. I'm genuinely excited about the impact Informer AI Assistants will have on customers' daily work and the transformative effect it will have for their organizations.
I invite you to plug an AI Assistant up to your data and ask away! See the possibilities for yourself.