Yardi Voyager Custom Reports: Do You Need One?

 http://www.lupinepartners.com/custom_reports - David Wolfe of Lupine Partners explains the method of determing if Yardi Voyager custom report development is necessary for your implementation.

This is an important question.  A more important question is this one:  Do you need one all-inclusive report or will a combination of existing (free) reports do the trick?  You need to do a cost/benefit analysis determining whether the internal and external costs of developing a custom report are worth it.  You only have a finite amount of time and money.  Is the benefit of having a custom report worth the internal/external costs?  I have written reports that have cost the client over $5,000 (due to their complexity).  They could have the same information at no cost just by using 2 canned reports.  The goal should be to have the information necessary to make decisions - period.