Automated Reporting

Hello my fellow monsters,

Hope you are all well and your campaigns are running smoothly! :)

Was looking to see if anyone had any experience with automating reports, using some kind of stand alone program. At this point a budget hasn't been specified, but the best tool for the job would be a cost effective and non-server based one.

We currently serve through DFA and get our reports sent to us through Excel from 'Report Central'. We then place the RAW data from those reports into an Excel template, add in manual data that can't be obtained from the server, then employ various formulas to work out the remaining fields.

While this currently works and is pretty quick, we want further automation. To the point where we can set up the initial manual data & template once; then be able to copy in the RAW data from DFA and have a complete report.

There are SO many options out there, but have been looking at:

http://www.dbxtra.com/
http://www.internet-soft.com/excel.htm

Any one have any other suggestions or experiences they can share?

Cheers,
Neil