Best Reporting tool

Hi,
Need suggestion on this
Problem Faced By Customer:-
12 Critical Finance Reports not generated according to user requirements
Most of basic feature for reporting purposes are not implemented in current system which is in Oracle Apps 11i - E-Business Suite
Takes a lot of time to prepare reports which are needed to be presented for management meetings.
New Requirement to rebuild 12 Critical Finance Reports:-
The finance dept plans to redevelop 12 new critical reports for their system
The new implementation must be compatible with the future migration of current Oracle Apps 11i - E-Business Suite to Oracle Apps version 12.
could you please suggest the best solution and technology for this new implementation
Thanks,
Dinesh Jaganathan

Please help me to give some inputs for the oracle development. The 12 reports wont integrate with the existing system because it was not built by us and also I want to know how the oracle report installation will be done. Please update my diagram scenario of the proposed solution as below
Problems Faced in the existing system:-
================================
• 12 Critical Finance Reports not generated according to user requirements
• Most of basic feature for reporting purposes are not implemented in current system which is in Oracle Apps 11i - E-Business Suite
• Takes a lot of time to prepare reports which are needed to be presented for management meetings.
Proposed System
===============
Expectation
• The finance dept plans to redevelop 12 new critical reports for their system
• The new implementation must be compatible with the future migration of current Oracle Apps 11i - E-Business Suite to Oracle Apps version 12.
Solution
The new development will be built using the oracle reports and won’t be integrated with the existing application. Oracle reports do not require any specific installation to be done at client PC.
Advantages
• If it's from a desktop users may find it easier to fire the reports as they may not require to login to Apps.
• When the Report is displayed, the user can simply generate the report to several formats like PDF, XLS, HTML, RTF, XML etc.
• Oracle Reports is reliable: You can serve thousands of concurrent users in a secure and reliable manner.
• Oracle Reports has the ability to apply changes to a report based on a customization file in XML either at runtime or in batch.
Proposed system flow for Oracle reports development
=========================================
12 reports to be installed onto the Red Hat AS3 system <--------------Red Hat AS3(Oracle E-Business Suite Ver 11i (Apps) and Oracle Database Ver 9.2.0.5) -----> Oracle Database
Need your input to make my document more clear.
Thanks,
Dinesh Jaganathan

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