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 Entrinsik Informer | Score10 out of 10 | N/A | Entrinsik Informer is a web-based reporting and business intelligence application popular in the higher education vertical market. It helps organizations transform real-time data into actionable information by delivering ad-hoc reporting, data analysis, and interactive dashboards. | N/A |
 SAP Crystal | Score7.5 out of 10 | N/A | SAP Crystal is an analytics and reporting software solution for SMBs. SAP Crystal comprises Crystal Reports for pixel-perfect reporting, and SAP Crystal Server for automated distribution and self-service access to reports, dashboards and data exploration. | $295 per single user license |
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| Additional Details | — | * SAP Crystal Reports 2020 Viewer allows you to view static data within a SAP Crystal Reports file. * SAP Crystal Reports 2020 - Full version allows you to create powerful, richly formatted, and dynamic reports from virtually any data source, delivered in dozens of formats, in up to 28 languages. If you already have an older version of Crystal Reports, buy a license for SAP Crystal Reports 2020 - Upgrade at a discounted, upgrade price. * SAP Crystal Server 2020, 1 NUL includes 1 license of: SAP Crystal Reports 2020 - SAP Crystal Server 2020. * As an add-on to SAP Crystal Server 2020 1 NUL, SAP Crystal Server 2020 5 CAL allows you to support a wider, intermittent audience of end users, up to five logged on at the same time. | ||||||||||||||
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| Considered Both Products | Chose Entrinsik Informer Crystal Reports with UniDATA ODBC. This works quite well but is cumbersome to set up and maintain. This required several steps outside the UniDATA database as well as setting up security views and a variety of processes that have to be monitored more closely. No other systems … Chose Entrinsik Informer Before using Informer, we used "Query Builder" and staff found that very difficult to manage and write reports. We do use Crystal Reports and while it contains some of the output functions we need, it is not end-user friendly and generally requires extensive training to be able … Chose Entrinsik Informer In the past we have used Query Builder and Crystal Reports. Query Builder was very difficult for end users to learn, and only created reports, there was no other features such as charting or dashboards. When we used Crystal Reports, it was version 8, and again it did not have … Chose Entrinsik Informer Greatly impressed with Informer and the capabilities that it provides. Definitely not impressed with the kludginess of Crystal Reports. | No answer on this topic |
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| Likelihood to Recommend | 10.0 | 10.0 |
| Likelihood to Renew | 8.7 | 10.0 |
| Usability | 9.1 | 9.5 |
| Availability | 9.1 | 8.0 |
| Performance | 8.3 | 8.0 |
| Support Rating | 10.0 | 8.6 |
| In-Person Training | - | 10.0 |
| Online Training | 7.3 | - |
| Implementation Rating | 9.0 | 8.8 |
| Configurability | - | 8.0 |
| Data Sharing and Collaboration | 8.0 | 8.8 |
| Data Sources | 8.0 | 9.2 |
| Ease of integration | - | 7.0 |
| Product Scalability | 7.1 | 7.0 |
| Vendor post-sale | - | 8.0 |
| Vendor pre-sale | - | 7.0 |
