High demand architecture, large reports, distributed printing, best practic

Hi,
I have a client with high demand for printing reports in different country regions and large reports (10000 pages some of them), today they are doing this with Oracle Reports, but the server regularly gets overloaded and some reports never complete. They use reports in PDF format.
Can you please suggest an appropriate architecture for this scenario. Or refer some documentation on Best Practices for high demand and distributed reporting?.
Case description
They have a centralized Reports Server and reports are used in different remote regions of the country.
Some reportrs have 6 pages and others may be more than 10.000 pages.
Reports server has communication with some remote facilities at 10 mbps, and some regional offices at 10mbps, but most offices connect at 512 o 1024 bps.
The idea would be having reports like "client reports" in the offices and request only "Data" to the server, so they can reduce network traffic, they believe most problems come from the fact that Reports Server sends heavy PDF thru the network causing lags and fails, some reports never complete, they have to resend them.
Some othes ideas also include : Reduce the business logic placed into reports, use of regional servers, or even they have thought in changing Reports for another tool.
Any comment or suggestion would be appreciated.
Thanks in advance for your attention.

i think better way is to keep business logic into database and generate ur reports using Forms(Oracle forms) based parameter forms and save results into temporary tables
show some progress bar status on ur forms so it will be easy for users how long they have to wait for report to generate
in reports there should not by anything more than select * from mytemptables
Baig,
[My Oracle Blog|http://baigsorcl.blogspot.com/]

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SAP Best Practices packages support best business practices that quickly turn your SAP ERP application into a valuable tool used by the entire business. You can evaluate and implement specific business processes quickly u2013 without extensive Customization of your SAP software. As a result, you realize the benefits with less Effort and at a lower cost than ever before. This helps you improve operational efficiency while providing the flexibility you need to be successful in highly demanding markets. SAP Best Practices packages can benefit companies of all sizes, including global enterprises creating a corporate template for their subsidiaries.
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