SCCM 2012 Reporting Capabilities for Software Metering

Hi,
I've been requested by my supervisors to get some information on metered software and computer usage in a specific lab, but I am unsure if I can obtain all the information they requested with just using SCCM.
I've already set up metering rules for the programs they want information on, software metering is enabled on the clients, and all of the lab computers are in in Configmgr and have good clients on them. Here's the list of the requests:
Total number of lab users by day
Total hours logged into lab computers by day
Total hours logged into a specific metered program by day
Total hours running different internet browsers
Total unique users over the course of a certain period of time
I am a novice when it comes to reports in SCCM. Are there built in reports that can give this information or would I have to write my own custom reports, or is this level of detail not possible for SCCM to give?
Any advice would be appreciated.
Thanks!

The most requested information can be found in the obvious reports about
Software Metering (\Monitoring\Overview\Reporting\Reports\Software Metering).
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