Buy or build tool for Data Reporting ?

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Published on 2009-07-20T10:42:57Z Indexed on 2010/05/31 2:02 UTC
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We have been asked to provide a data reporting solution. The followng are the requirements:

i. The client has a lot of data which is generated everyday as an outcome of the tests they run. These tests are run at several sites and they get automatically backed up into a central server.

ii. They already have perl scripts which post process them and generates excel based reports.

iii. They need a web based interface for comparing those reports and they need to mark and track issues which might be present in those data.

I am confused if we should build our own tool for this or we should go for already exiting tool(any suggestions?). Can you please provide supportive arguments for the decision that you would suggest?

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