What do you do for resource assignment reporting / checking ?

Question

I've been tasked with writing a set of reports, the purpose of which is twofold.
Firstly, to help department managers make decisions on new requirements coming in
Secondly, to help resource managers check their resources' assignments against previous months (we move the data date across a large multi programme environment at the end of each calendar month)
Sometimes it can be hard to think outside of the way we work in our organisation, so throwing the question out - what do you and your organisation do?
Points available for the best answers!
David

Answer 1

Another option is to generate SQL reports within the database.
While I have never generated anything advanced we often run basic resource assignment reports to identify where a given resource is assigned:
Generic example:
SELECT a.task_code, a.act_end_date, b.proj_short_name, d.rsrc_short_name
FROM TASK a, project b, taskrsrc c, rsrc d
WHERE c.rsrc_id=2298
AND a.task_id = c.task_id
AND b.proj_id = c.proj_id
AND d.rsrc_id = c.rsrc_id
AND a.proj_id = b.proj_id;