I should also add that this would be used primarily for reporting for 
individual departments/groups. Ex. How many calls are they getting over the 
normal volume, etc.  Is this employee making the phone calls they are required 
for their job responsibilities, etc. Again, technology trying to solve problems 
that are better managed in other ways :(

I’ve rolled my own CDR logging that loads the records in a database from 
multiple clusters and automatically purges them after our retention period. 
This works great for the occasional forensics request and troubleshooting 
general issues.

However, it doesn’t scale well for random ad hoc reports, schedule reports, etc 
without some more work.

Today charge back and DID management is done with a different product that has 
it’s own set of issues. It has some reporting capabilities but they don’t work 
well and are slow and cumbersome.

Variphy promotes their “cradle to grave reporting” though I’ve not looked at 
that portion yet. The other reports appear to be customized for almost anything 
in the CDR data with some stats as well, percent to vm, average duration etc, 
some what like CUIC without the hassle of CUIC and it’s interface.

I have a feeling this will likely end with us rolling our own reporting tools. 
As the reports will be demanded, but consensus on everyone’s requirements and 
the money to solve that will probably be difficult to obtain given the events 
of this year. Probably not the best use of our time, but better then the never 
ending requests for reports.

Thank you all for the responses, it’s appreciated.


> On Jun 3, 2020, at 16:38, Anthony Holloway <avholloway+cisco-v...@gmail.com> 
> wrote:
> 
> 
> My personal experience is that it gets talked about a lot, but then never 
> purchased.  For mostly cost reasons, but I think it's also the fact that it's 
> one more vendor, one more contract, one more vm, one more management touch 
> point, etc., and is the data you'll get really that useful, to warrant all 
> that?
> 
> I personally have really wanted to see someone buy the Variphy suite, as it 
> also does DID management and a few other things.
> 
> I know the Donoma people post to this list often, so we might hear from them. 
>  Their website touts "telling a story" about the call, which I think is what 
> most are missing.  They just don't turn data into knowledge.  I'd like to see 
> Donoma pull that off, but again, I just don't see people buying anything. 
> 
>> On Wed, Jun 3, 2020 at 3:58 PM UC Penguin <gen...@ucpenguin.com> wrote:
>> I’m curious what third party CDR Analysis software is commonly used today 
>> and pros/cons of each?
>> 
>> Looking for something friendly for non-Engineers to run reports.
>> 
>> Thanks in advance  
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