Desktop Publishing with Integrated BW Data

Our client wants to publish large financial statement type documents with BW data/graphs integrated into the document and updated with changes automatically. We are looking for a tool that will allow desktop publishing of documents ~100 pages in length with the ability to integrate BW data. We looked at Crystal 10, but it does not have many document publishing features they would like. We investigated a tool called Pattern Stream that looks great for this purpose, but cannot read from OLAP. Any ideas as to other tools or ways to accomplish this would be greatly appreciated.

Hi Blake,
I would like to understand the limitations that you think are there for Crystal v 10.
Always interested in feedback for improvement.
thanks
Ingo Hilgefort
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