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Entrinsik® Informer™ 4.0

January 2012

IT Geek terms

Database File Record Field

Informer terms

Database File Record Field

Data Source Mapping Filter Columns

Elon terms

Database File Record Field

Datatel Group Criteria Data

Data Source Mapping Filter Columns

English terms

Database File Record Field

Datatel Group Criteria Data

Data Source Mapping Filter Columns

Where from? InformationCategory

WhichData?

Report

English terms

Report:A tabulated set of data that contains fields from records from files from a source database.

Review of Datatel

Datatel is big. Gigantic. Humongus.

We have about 1.6 million student registration records in Datatel.

(every time a student registered for a course).

Informer is like a …

Think of Datatel as the universe of millions of pieces of data. Informer is like a telescope that allows us to see and understand part of that universe..

Entrinsik® Informer™

• Organizes millions of pieces of data into very large groups that can be re-arranged and cross-referenced

• Provides reports for viewing on-screen, exporting to another application, or for printing

Datatel

On Track

Entrinsik Informer

Reports come from Data Sets

Informer Reports

Informer’s main purpose is to organize

and gather data from

Datatel for analysis

and reporting

Informer Reports

Informer does NOT

allow you to:• Enter data into Datatel• Change data in Datatel

Informer Reports

Which means you can’t break it.

Web Access

Must go through Elon VPS to get toEntrinsik Informer.

What is VPN?

A very fast tunnel

How to get there

Go to:

https://webvpn.elon.edu/

www.entrinsik.elon.edu