Decent best-of-breed reporting tools tend to be quite pricey.
Some options are:
Cognos: everything that opens and shuts. Sphincter-puckeringly expensive
Qlikview: particularly strong on interactive dashboards. Cheaper than Cognos, but that's like saying 'Cheaper than a Rolls Royce'
Business Objects: Good bursting features (delivering parameterised reports to a user base). Cheaper than Cognos
Tableau: New-ish but pretty good. Quite pricey.
MicroStrategy: Very heavyweight system with everything - and I mean everything - that opens and shuts. The Oracle of reporting tools. Has sort of lo…