The search for the best solution: third party or open source?

What does the journey look like when you’ve decided to buy?

About four years ago, I led a project to find the best solution to replace our in-house, buggy, slow, and unscalable reporting tool. And so I did (or at least tried).

As you can imagine, not all the considerations and decisions we took initially made sense over time, and, in hindsight, I would have made changes. In this article, I’ll share my learnings from the decision-making process and hope that it helps you reach the decision that is right for you when looking at build vs. buy.

Everything starts with requirements

I needed to find something better than the existing solution in every aspect that wouldn’t take more than a few months to integrate with our system – a piece of cake.

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