Yes, that's good advice. It would seem that many people are dazzled by attractive "front ends" (and, just to be clear, I'm still talking about databases here), initially at least ... only to suffer frustration and er, disappointment later on (once the "novelty has worn off", as it were) when they find it cannot churn out the reports required!
Yet another valid reason, I feel (as if one were needed), why simply sticking with a database management software package, and developing your own system, has such merit. That is, you can then set it up to produce any report you need. Try doing that with the "industry standard" systems (although, to be fair, some are quite good in this respect).
And who knows what reports "they" will be demanding tomorrow!
If nothing else, it's nice to be able to export data to the ubiquitous MS Excel ... then you (and the bean counters) can do whatever you want with it!
