Access to Insight is granted on the basis of the application modules. Users must submit a request to the Insight help desk to be granted initial access to the system. Overview of the security permission is detailed below:
Principal Investigators – Investigators have access to all records in their portfolio (grants, contracts and protocols).
Financial Reports – Grant and financial reports can be assigned based on Chief of Service code, associated to a particular investigator or assigned to a specific fund. Access to these funds needs to be authorized by the departmental finance manager, investigator or Research Finance.
Humans – Protocols can be assigned based on the investigator, study staff or sponsored departments. Users added to this module receive everything to which they have been assigned as participating in a human research study through the application process. Investigators also have the ability to assign protocols to specific individuals where necessary by using the ‘Portfolio’ management option of their permissions under Admin module.
Personnel – Current personnel managers responsible for specific human resource departments within Manager Self Service will be able to view the staff they manage within Insight. For some managers, personnel on operating or PO accounts will not appear.
Animals - Protocols can be assigned based on the investigator, study staff or sponsored departments. Users added to this module receive everything to which they have been assigned as participating in an animal research study through the application process.
Purchasing – Users will be able to view PO/AP data on funds they have access to. In addition access can be granted to view and or manage user orders within Insight.
The address for the application is available within the Partners network at:
Users can also access the application from outside the Partners network by placing an “s” after the “http” as shown here: https://insight.partners.org
Users can log in with their authorized Partners username and password once they have been granted access to Insight. There is no need to remember another user name and password.
They are the same as those used to access the Partners network for all other standard applications. If your password does change, it will be reflected in Insight on the following business day.
If you do not have a Partners login, please contact your departmental key-giver. If you do not know who your key-giver is, please refer to the department key-giver reference table in the
Partners IS website (http://helpdesk.partners.org/data).
The application is consistently updated with new releases. To ensure that you are accessing the correct site it is recommended that you add a bookmark to your Internet browser.
To Add Insight to Bookmark option within Internet Browser:
1. Add site to your “favorites” menu in Internet Explorer
2. Right click using your mouse on the new bookmark and open “properties”
3. Under properties paste http://insight2.partners.org into the box labeled “URL”
Insight can be viewed using any display settings. For optimal viewing, select a display setting
of 1024x768 pixels. To update your screen settings on a standard PC:
1. Click on ‘Start’ menu, ‘Settings’ then ‘Control Panel’
2. Double-click on the ‘Display’ icon
3. Click on the ‘Settings’ tab
4. In the screen area box, move the slider towards ‘More’ to increase the pixel area
5. Once the desired pixel area is achieved, click ‘OK’ and your screen will be updated