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

Creating your own dashboards, reports, and data visualizations with UI components is a logical first step. However, you’ll eventually find that doing it yourself and at scale has hidden costs such as time, resources, energy, and overall productivity.

As your application matures and you have increasingly complex user requirements, it’s time to consider working with an embedded analytics vendor.

Consider these 10 factors when deciding whether you should build analytics features with UI components.

What You’ll Learn:

• When to build analytics with UI component libraries vs. using an embedded analytics platform
• 10 commonly overlooked “build” factors that can cost a lot
• Long-term considerations for maintaining and upgrading your analytics