--- title: Entrinsik Informer Reviews meta_title: 'Entrinsik Informer Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta_description: Filter 11 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how Entrinsik Informer works for a business like yours. aggregate_rating: rating_value: 4.7 review_count: 11 scale: '5' date_modified: '2026-05-05' parent_category: name: Analytics Tools & Software url: https://www.g2.com/categories/analytics-tools-software --- # Entrinsik Informer Reviews **Vendor:** Entrinsik **Category:** [Analytics Platforms](https://www.g2.com/categories/analytics-platforms) **Average Rating:** 4.7/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 11 ## About 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. ## Entrinsik Informer Reviews ### 1. Excellent Reporting Tool! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Higher Education | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 26, 2021 **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. **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. **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. **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. ### 2. Informer is a high speed, low drag, teflon coated reporting solution **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Peter C. | Senior Systems Analyst, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 20, 2021 **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. **What do you dislike about Entrinsik Informer?** There is nothing bad here to report honestly. **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! ### 3. We have been users of Informer for 10 years and are very happy with the product and support **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** John B. | Coordinator, Management Information Services, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 20, 2021 **What do you like best about Entrinsik Informer?** Linkages with our main databases allowing for immediate reporting of data changes. **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. **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. ### 4. Perfect tool for easy reporting. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Naz N. | Programmer Analyst, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 28, 2021 **What do you like best about Entrinsik Informer?** Created reports for easy access to multiple departments. **What do you dislike about Entrinsik Informer?** I would like more documentation for using Java script. **Recommendations to others considering Entrinsik Informer:** Entrinsik Informer is a great tool for reporting, easy to use for end users. **What problems is Entrinsik Informer solving and how is that benefiting you?** Getting information from Data base for listing, reporting, counting and statistic purposes. ### 5. Very flexible report/dashboard toolset **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 20, 2021 **What do you like best about Entrinsik Informer?** The visuals in Informer5 Datasets are SSSOOO easy to build and deploy **What do you dislike about Entrinsik Informer?** Will be glad when form Templates are finally available **Recommendations to others considering Entrinsik Informer:** Best reporting/dashboard for the MV market by far !!! **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! ### 6. Reporting in an unfriendly environment **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jamie S. | Programmer Analyst, Higher Education, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 05, 2018 **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. **What do you dislike about Entrinsik Informer?** There is definitely some learning to do before you become proficient in writing reports. **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. **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. ### 7. Great data tool and stable program **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Higher Education | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 19, 2018 **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. **What do you dislike about Entrinsik Informer?** I have not found any problems with it. The program meets my needs. **Recommendations to others considering Entrinsik Informer:** Your IT department programmers can create numerous types of data gathering options with this program. Highly recommended! **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. ### 8. Informer for Reports **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Higher Education | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 15, 2018 **What do you like best about Entrinsik Informer?** I like that Informer forms clear and easy reports to read. **What do you dislike about Entrinsik Informer?** I dislike that you do not have many options on producing a report. **Recommendations to others considering Entrinsik Informer:** More clear instructions on how to manage the application. **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. ### 9. Complicated but useful **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** J. Nicole W. | Assistant Dean of Students for Diversity & Inclusion, Higher Education, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 20, 2017 **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. **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. **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) **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. ### 10. Entrinsik Informer for Fundraising and Alumni Relations **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Higher Education | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 25, 2016 **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. **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. **What problems is Entrinsik Informer solving and how is that benefiting you?** Donation reporting and alumni involvement. ### 11. Associate Controller **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Nancy K. | Associate Controller, Higher Education, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 20, 2016 **What do you like best about Entrinsik Informer?** The best thing about Informer is the ease of use. **What do you dislike about Entrinsik Informer?** As I have not set up the reports and only run and view, I have no problems. **What problems is Entrinsik Informer solving and how is that benefiting you?** Spending reports ## Entrinsik Informer Discussions - [How easy is to move forward to version 5.00 or higher?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/36908-how-easy-is-to-move-forward-to-version-5-00-or-higher) - 1 comment, 1 upvote - [View Entrinsik Informer pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/entrinsik-informer/reviews?section=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-07-10+19%3A17%3A18+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=5fd699c2-0baa-4942-8d1d-b15b8380f7ba&secure%5Btoken%5D=243554b82f6f8d91be51ade3b9afe9f1b2106977159091b5777fa4366ea9e1cb&format=llm_user) ## Entrinsik Informer Features **Reports** - Reports Interface - Steps to Answer - Graphs and Charts - Score Cards - Dashboards **Data Preparation** - Connectors - Data Governance **Data Modeling and Blending** - Data Querying - Data Filtering - Data Blending **Generative AI** - AI Text Generation - AI Text Summarization **Agentic AI - Analytics Platforms** - Autonomous Task Execution - Multi-step Planning - Cross-system Integration - Adaptive Learning - Natural Language Interaction - Proactive Assistance - Decision Making **Self Service ** - Calculated Fields - Data Column Filtering - Data Discovery - Search - Collaboration / Workflow - Automodeling **Deployment & Integration - Analytics Platforms** - No-code Dashboard Builder - Report Scheduling and Automation - Embedded Analytics and White-labeling - Data Source Connectivity **Advanced Analytics** - Predictive Analytics - Data Visualization - Big Data Services **Performance & Scalability - Analytics Platforms** - Large data handling and Query Speed - Concurrent User Support **Advanced Analytics & Modeling - Analytics Platforms** - Data Modeling and Governance - Notebook and Script Integration - Built-in Predictive and Statistical Models **Agentic AI Capabilities - Analytics Platforms** - Auto-generated Insights and Narratives - Natural Language Queries - Proactive KPI Monitoring and Alerts - AI Agents for Analytical Follow-ups **Personalized Intelligence - Analytics Platforms** - Behavioral Learning for Contextual Query Refinement - Role-based Insight Personalization - Conversational and Prompt-based Analytics **Building Reports** - Data Transformation - Data Modeling - WYSIWYG Report Design - Integration APIs **Platform** - Mobile User Support - Customization - User, Role, and Access Management - Internationalization - Sandbox / Test Environments - Performance and Reliability - Breadth of Partner Applications ## Top Entrinsik Informer Alternatives - [Strategy One (formerly MicroStrategy ONE)](https://www.g2.com/products/strategy-one-formerly-microstrategy-one/reviews) - 4.2/5.0 (529 reviews) - [Microsoft Power BI](https://www.g2.com/products/microsoft-microsoft-power-bi/reviews) - 4.5/5.0 (1,591 reviews) - [Tableau](https://www.g2.com/products/tableau/reviews) - 4.4/5.0 (3,648 reviews)