I’m a big fan of Bus Objects for operational reporting, but in our implementation it’s just agonizingly slow - compared to lots of things on the web. As a result, leadership is not going to use it. They can barely wait 5s and then would move on. Yet I can go to Zillow, type in an address, and it’s there in like 2s ! I know it’s not the same, but it sets expectations on how a computer system should work.
So we’re trying to move forward with dashboards for this and that. But from my experience, this wouldn’t work because it’s so slow.
For example, one fairly complex report takes
- 20s just to load
- 30s to run the report (not bad actually)
But people are used to their phones (and Zillow). Like ESPN, you can pull up the stats from a game lickely-split, then tap the players and BAM! their profile comes up.
Our database is small - - - 30,000 student records and if we have a related table with 100,000 records, that’s a LOT!