Case Studies
Atlantic Cape Community College Achieves Widespread User Adoption and True Self-Service Reporting and Data Analysis with Entrinsik Informer
Overview
Analytics & Modeling - Data-as-a-Service Application Infrastructure & Middleware - Data Exchange & Integration Application Infrastructure & Middleware - Database Management & Storage | |
Education | |
Business Operation Quality Assurance | |
Predictive Maintenance Process Control & Optimization Remote Asset Management | |
Software Design & Engineering Services System Integration Training | |
Operational Impact
Implementing Informer allowed staff at ACCC to see instant results. Even during the conversion of their legacy system to Colleague, Informer helped staff and consultants create and run reports directly from multiple data sources, giving them access to live data the moment they needed it. Informer’s ability to connect to multiple data sources at once allowed the College to leverage one out-of-the-box solution for all of their reporting needs. | |
Informer is currently our reporting solution of choice to the near exclusion of any other tools, thus helping us reduce licensing costs and user training issues,” said Hedges. “Even as we consider developing alternate data stores for institutional research (IR) that are relational in structure, we see Informer as being the primary front-end for reporting as it can access data across both relational and MultiValue databases. | |
Informer’s ease of use has allowed for widespread user adoption, and numerous end-user departments have started using Informer to create reports ranging from Blackboard reports (ACCC’s learning management system) to more complicated reports for Finance departments. “Many users have become experts in their own areas in writing reports i.e. IR uses Informer to do the data extractions for their specialized projects and analyses,” said Hedges. | |
Quantitative Benefit
Currently ACCC has around 100 Informer users, 80% of which are end-users. | |