Supports lots of formats for data export. A real software Swiss Army knife for reporting.

It is easier to build pretty reports without installing extra software such as SSRS and licensing is cheaper than SSRS.

Setting up the initial data connections is tricky. However, once that's configured there is not a lot of maintenance needed.

Implementing Informer is one of the best business decisions we've made.

Ease of use and user friendly  best for price/performance ratio.

Reasonably priced compared to other reporting solutions. Report on many different database types.

No longer spending ages writing reports in Visual Studio based on SQL views.

Informer is a simple, easy to use but very useful and robust reporting tool. We use it for Colleague and depend on it every day to help make our jobs easier.

Version 4 has been difficult since we migrated to SQL.

Informers ability to traverse the database is super powerful and a huge time saver.

We had an issue with another database and were unable to use the tool it came with. We were told there was no way to integrate it with our Student Information System.

Great tool for reporting with multiple data-sources. Easy to use, excellent customer service.

Informer provided me with amazing data as an Academic Advisor. It really made my job much more simple.

Overall experience with Informer has been impeccable. The new GUI makes it so pleasing to work with since it is alot more user friendly.

Easy product to integrate and use. I enjoy the ability to use datasets.

Informer consistently saves us over 40 hours a week in report generation. We use it to audit, and integrate and report and it provides for our Business Intelligence needs.

The software is very easy to use. Dashboard are an excellent and easy way to visualize data.

I am generally extremely stingy with my star ratings, so 4's and 5's mean a LOT to me.

Data modeling flexibility, built-in drilldowns, and powerful conditional calculations and formatting are among the strong differentiating features for this tool.

The cons are that the reporting does take a while to load, which can be frustrating.

Best tool for creating super interactive data visualizations and reports.

It has been a fantastic tool that has allowed me to more effectively and efficiently perform the duties of my job.

I loved the fact that this system allowed you to pull extremely detailed reports in a matter of minutes.

Of all of the 3rd-party software the College uses, Informer has by far the best cost-to-value ratio. It was relatively easy to implement and is easily picked up by non-technical users.

The customer service is extremely responsive and the software itself is constantly be improved and enhanced.

Creating custom expressions for those fields that you need within a specific mapping. Amazing visually and gives you a great end result.

I love that I can add a query in Informer to extract out exactly the data I need from tons of records based on the criteria I add.

Perfect integration with Microsoft solutions. Ease to share with other partners.

In my opinion, it helps its users create very professional-looking and most importantly dynamic reports with stunning visuals.

In general I'm very pleased with the software and it meets the needs I need - a good opportunity to say thank you.

I have trouble connecting it to an analysis cube and making a website version.

The brightest part of Power BI for us has been the ability to create rich data driven dashboards without having to invest in an entire new platform.

The dashboards and reports are limited in visual design, so they all look the same and quite ugly.

Overall a great solution at a great price. Easy to learn, hard to master, but can deliver business benefit within hours.

This is a powerful software that makes it easy to demonstrate the data analyzing and create a fantastic view for different reports.

The PowerBI experience is excellent, especially I appreciate the integration with Office 365, also the mobile version works very easily.

Power BI is user friendly and helps the companies to present data in a beautiful way.

Some find it too complicated to use and are intimidated by the format. I have not been able to find training for management on how to use a report that someone else with PowerBI skills created.

One feature I like so much is the ability to import data from multiple sources. Also, the fact that there is a mobile version of the software makes it a wonderful choice.

It has lot of learning curve and has very limited support available on internet. Configuration is a hell.

I have always had a dislike of the methodology and training materials Microsoft subscribes to.

Power BI has been a welcome addition to our tech stack. The ability to create visual reports and quickly export them to add to presentations is a great little addition.

Amazing product, very inexpensive, great support, fantastic visualizations, great data transformation.

It’s the best for the presentation and to make the presentation more interesting.

Overall, it's a great program and solves our needs in visualizing data. With most Microsoft products, we'll be excited with future updates.

I love Power BI's ability to translate complex data into simple to understand visualizations that is helpful for making business decisions.

It is also excellent all the integrations you can do with systems, the cloud, etc. The data transformation module I find wonderful how fast it is, even with large amounts of information.

Additionally, there are times that my computer struggles to keep up with the program causing it to become non-responsive or crash.

Having switched from excel recently, Microsoft Power BI has been of great help. Having good visuals for data is a plus to us as an organization for they help do comparisons at a glance.

The best feature that Power BI has to deliver, in my view, is its visuals. Charts and diagrams are also more visually appealing, which helps me communicate my messages to my friends and colleagues.

It has a lot of powerful features and potentials in showing data and making nice graphs/tables to show the facts/numbers that you want. It works way better and is way more efficient than Excel.

Great user friendly interface, which can be overwhelming at first, but is well worth getting to grips with. There is plenty of online and community support for Power BI.

Excellent customer support. Using the power bi web dashboard is a great way to gain the visibility that you need to make this Business intelligence  valuable.

The big advantage is that the program is easy to use. Microsoft has developed some great tutorials that you can download on their site.

I like this software because I have the chance to create amazing graphics and those are dynamic.

The visuals are great and integrates excellently with other Microsoft applications. It is also very easy to deploy and work with.

This product is a great cost solution and is only getting more powerful as time goes on.

Rearranging dashboards can be a bit frustrating, and it’s web-add on EasyBI has very limiting features.

Having knowledge of Excel, it made it much easier to adopt and when I ran into trouble there was great help in the Power BI online community.

It is almost like Excel but with great visuals and scalable dashboards for quick preview into useful information.

The graphics are really nice and it makes building a report the such an easy task I loved this.

The negative thing about Power BI is that you need a lot of effort to edit the data that you have imported as a table.

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Entrinsik Informer is a business intelligence tool that is designed for business and IT professionals. Key features include a dashboard, data scheduling and analysis and report generation.


Entrinsik Informer allows users to extract data in real time from relational or multivalue data sources in a single web interface. Users can then create reports and dashboards autonomously. A built-in security framework provides role-based user permissions and access control.


The scheduling feature helps users to create a job and set multiple actions. Users can run jobs manually, set schedule or alerts when specific conditions are met. The solution also comes with a help center, which enables users to access online guides, training videos and downloads, search a knowledge base to find answers to questions and track the status of support tickets.



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Data Storage Management

Visual Discovery

Ad hoc Reporting

Strategic Planning

Data Extraction

Relational Display

Public Dashboards

Scheduled/Automated Reports

Data Capture and Transfer

Functions/Calculations

Data Import/Export

Private Dashboards

Profitability Analysis

Sales Reports

Dashboard Creation

Real Time Data

Marketing Reports

Performance Metrics

Data Connectors

Trend/Problem Indicators

KPI Monitoring

Ad hoc Query

Key Performance Indicators

Visual Analytics

Activity Dashboard

Reporting & Statistics

Data Visualization

Dashboard

Reporting/Analytics

Widgets

Trend Analysis

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Ad hoc Analysis

Data Migration

Drag & Drop

Financial Reporting

Data Mapping

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Informer offers a 30-day free trial for new users. Please contact Entrinsik directly for pricing information.

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Microsoft Power BI is a web-based business analytics and data visualization platform that is suitable for businesses of all sizes. It monitors important organizational data and also from all apps used by organizations. Microsoft Power BI provides tools to quickly analyze, transform and visualize data, and also share reports.

Microsoft Power BI offers SQL Server Analysis Services through which users can quickly build reusable models using the overall data. The software enables users to integrate their apps, so as to deliver reports along with real-time dashboards.

Microsoft Power BI also provides self-service access to major third-party cloud sources such as GitHub, Zendesk, Marketo and Salesforce.

Microsoft Power BI is available both in free and paid (Pro) versions. The free version is not limited by any time period; however, data of only 1GB per user can be analyzed. Otherwise, it costs $10 per user per month for 10GB of storage.



Real-Time Analytics

Integration into Third Party Applications

High Volume Processing

Customizable Reports

Data Synchronization

Natural Language Search

Collaboration Tools

Geographic Maps

Self Service Data Preparation

Data Quality Control

Mobile Access

Data Cleansing

Data Discovery

Real-Time Updates

Interactive Reports

Data Blending

Real Time Reporting

Data Transformation

Self-service Analytics

Data Management

Single Page View

AI/Machine Learning

Power BI Pro: $9.99 per user, per month
Power BI Premium: $20 Per user/month and $4,995 Per capacity/month

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