Report Quality NOT Quantity
If you look at any of the SEM/SIM products these days, they all tout how many pre-built reports they have prepared for you. Most of them have a hundred or more, some even have a couple hundred!!
How are you ever going to have time to go through that many reports and find out if they are useful?!
If you look at the report names, they generally go like
That should be ONE report, not THREE!!! It’s a report that shows you the connections aggregated by a certain column!
Vendors should be building more flexible reports that allow users to configure the output. For example, in the example above, the vendor can simple provide one report that has a configurable parameter on which column to aggregate (group by in SQL terms). That way, the user can configure the reports however they like it and then save all the parameters (aggregates, filters, sort order) into a custom report.
Be wary of vendors touting the quantity of reports as a competitive advantage. The two hundred or so reports may really only be 50 or so.