Data Analysis
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Why Informer 5 is Better Than Using Excel for Analysis and Reporting
Gain greater insights from your data – quickly and easily Do you need to: Pull together data from different systems or spreadsheets for consolidated reporting? Cleanse and curate that data to produce department-specific reports and visuals based on one version...
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Customers Save Time & Money with Informer 5’s Aggregate Fields Reporting Functionality
The challenge with most ERP and enterprise systems is that they don’t include flexible reporting capabilities. They offer limited ad-hoc reporting at best and these custom reports can’t be scheduled, nor run on demand. As a result, business managers...
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Partnering with the IT organization
By Tim Nicholson VP, Informer Customer Services Many prospective customers say creating complex reports is challenging. What challenges them the most is getting data out of their systems and asking the IT staff to write the necessary queries to pull...
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Informer 5 delivers greater data access and extensibility
By Tim Nicholson VP, Informer Customer Services Over its existence, Informer has gone through major evolutionary changes in the areas of data access and management, data governance, and reporting. Informer 3 and Informer 4 did a great job in setting...
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True Self-Service Reporting
Self-service reporting has long been a goal of the IT departments I consult with. They long for the ability to pass along tasks involving query writing and data retrieval to the end-user. Basically, they want their user base to...
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How to best design Datasets
I had a post recently on the Informer Community web page asking us how to best design Datasets. There are a couple of alternatives worth discussing. Datasets bring the concept of data modeling to the forefront. Designing your Dataset requires...
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Top IT Issues for Higher Education
According to a recent article by Susan Grajek and the 2017–2018 EDUCAUSE IT Issues Panel, the 2018 Top 10 IT Issues show how digital technology is remaking higher education through four key themes: institutional adaptiveness, improved student outcomes, improved decision-making, and IT adaptiveness....
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Luxury or lemon: how to tell the difference between good and not-so-good reporting vendors
In the auto world, performance is important. It’s no different with data reporting, but in today’s crowded field of business intelligence (BI) vendors there are bound to be some “lemons” out there. So how do you tell the difference?
Important Announcement! Release of Informer’s New Test Drive Feature
Entrinsik has officially released the new Test Drive feature of our Informer software! The new test drive allows visitors interested in experiencing Informer to access a free trial version of the software instantly on their own web browser. Within this...
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Webinar Highlights: Coastal Carolina Delivers Informer Dashboards Via Mobile App
We recently partnered with Coastal Carolina University to present a live webinar that aired on Wednesday, December 4th, as part of our customer-led webinar series. Fadi Baroody of Coastal Carolina joined Tim Nicholson and Sharon Shelton of Entrinsik in presenting...
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