Build vs. Buy: 10 Hidden Costs of Building Analytics with UI Components

Every time an application team gets caught up in the “build vs. buy” debate, it stalls projects and delays time to revenue. For example, what happens when you need to embed dashboards and reports in your application? Many teams choose to build their own analytics with the help of UI components. But there are hidden costs that come along with that decision. Consider these 10 factors when deciding whether you should build analytics features with UI components.

Building analytics means implementing and maintaining security for every component you use. Managing security in multiple places takes significant eort and introduces unnecessary security risks. Unlike UI components, an embedded analytics platform globally reuses your existing security policies to ensure your security is always up to date and consistently applied for every tenant throughout the entire application.

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