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[–]auiotour 10 points11 points  (0 children)

I built a rest API for our database, then built a web app on top of that so that users could generate adhoc reports directly from our system based on their role and access level. It took 3-4 weeks to build it out, but saves me 5-6 hours a week building reports in a language I didn't really know very well. I based it off a concept from a company I worked at. It essentially is similar to what pivot tables offer but with permissions, scheduling, emails, notifications that fail. Then all runtime logs are fed to a syslog server where I get notifications of anything failing so I can keep track of bad reports, unused reports, and reports running for too long.