Monitoring solutions

Hi everyone,
Currently we cut and finish on 27" Apple Cinema Displays and headphones/Roland MA-8 speakers. It's not an ideal setup but I know the equipment pretty well, have a background in colour grading and rarely get surprised by what I see of our product out in the wild. Plus 95% of our work these days is web only. But I'm exploring upgrading the setup to better monitor what we're outputting.
The last 'proper' suite I ran was kitted out with a Blackmagic capture card, 50" Panasonic professional plasma display, Blackmagic Ultrascope running on a separate PC and a $20k broadcast monitor. Plus some Roland speakers. It was a brilliant setup but would be total overkill for my current suite.
What would people recommend for a simple but reasonably colour-accurate monitoring solution? I'd like to monitor the Pr and AE output from two suites, a 2011 Mac Pro and a 2014 iMac. I'm thinking a Blackmagic Intensity for Thunderbolt that bounced between the two machines and a 50" Panasonic IPS flatscreen. (I've always found Panasonic screens the easiest to accurate calibrate.) Alternatively a 4k TV and Intensity Pro for the Mac Pro and the Thunderbolt Intensity for the iMac to future proof the setup, although it'll be some time before we master (or even shoot) in HD. The current speakers are probably okay for now. We don't interact with any grading houses so there's no baseline calibration I'd be aiming for.
Any other recommendations? Flaws in my logic? Cheers!

Arvind:
We use ITEM with Concorde eHealth for reporting.
http://www.concord.com/download/datasheet/ccm_ds.pdf#search=%22cisco%20callmanager%20monitoring%22
You can tailor reports with view graphs for upper mgmt.
I have also heard good things about NetIQ
http://www.netiq.com/products/am/modules/cisco.asp
Hope that helps.
Tom

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