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National Finance Center

U.S. Department of Agriculture

What is Insight?

The National Finance Center presents Insight – a new business intelligence solution that provides integrated data and flexible analytics to drive strategic data-driven business decisions.

Insight is a comprehensive, enterprise-wide data warehouse with advanced reporting and business intelligence capabilities.

Reporting Capabilities

Key Features

Insight provides a consolidated data warehouse with advanced business intelligence and reporting capabilities that support a wide range of business needs. Features include:

Common Reports

Insight includes a number of pre-built reports based on the common Government reporting needs of customer organizations. Common reports and dashboards can be customized and easily exported in several useful formats.

Ad Hoc Reporting

Insight provides flexibility with your data to create ad hoc reports - creating Agency-specific reports, filtering data, and displaying results in multiple formats such as tables, graphs, maps, and trending visuals.

Summary Level Dashboards

Dashboards combine several reports into one summary view to provide unique insights into a business question. Insight includes several pre-built dashboards for Government-wide reporting needs, but users also have the ability to create Agency-specific dashboards with any combination of available reports and newly created ad hoc reports.

Data Transition Overview

Data is transitioned from legacy systems to Insight according to each Subject Area. Subject Areas are categories of data from which users can access data elements for ad hoc reporting. Each Insight Subject Area is mapped to a legacy data source:

Legacy System (Data Source) Subject Area in Insight Data Refreshed
PERSONNEL (PAYPERS) Workforce Profile Daily (after PINE) and Bi-weekly (after BEAR)
SALARY (PAYPERS) Workforce Profile Daily (after PINE) and Bi-weekly (after BEAR)
webTA webTA / Time & Attendance Bi-weekly (after BEAR)
EmpowHR Workforce Profile Two-Day Upload Once Applied in EmpowHR
POL Details POL Details Daily
PERHIS Personnel History Bi-weekly (after BEAR)
PAYTA (PACS) PACS Above Earnings; PACS App Charge; PACS Appointment Limitation; PACS Charitable Contribution; PACS Child Support and Alimony; PACS Differential Pay; PACS Farm Leave Detail; PACS Earning Limitation; PACS Health; PACS Leave; PACS Life Insurance; PACS Lump Sum; PACS Pay Header; PACS Prorated Allowance; PACS Receipt; PACS Retirement; PACS TA Extension; PACS TA History Bi-weekly (after BEAR)
ABCO ABCO Accounting Collection Control; ABCO Bill Adjustment; ABCO Bill Collection; ABCO Billing; ABCO Claim; ABCO Claim Refer; ABCO Receivable; ABCO Receivable Account; ABCO Receivable Detail; ABCO TOP Periodic Daily Basis (after billing cycle)
TMGT TMGT Weekly; varies by subject area and Mondays (Not on Holidays)
PMSO PMSO Daily and Bi-Weekly (after billing cycle)
MASC MASC Daily
RETM RETM Claim; RETM Master Daily
SETS SETS Daily
MD715 MD715 Personnel History; MD715 Workforce Profile Daily
CULPRPT NFC Culprit Daily
Data Refresh Data Refresh Daily

Last Updated / Reviewed: August 27, 2026