title: A glorious reporting tool
body: <p>I'm in search of a glorious reporting tool. I'm aware that glorious is a subjective term but... here are my desires:</p>
  
  <ul>
  <li>Dead simple for business types</li>
  <li>Does not require me to speficy any SQL</li>
  <li>Can inspect the database's schema to interpret the users requests without programmer intervention</li>
  <li>Costs next to nothing</li>
  <li>Can save commonly crafted reports</li>
  </ul>
  
  <p>This sounds an aweful lot like pivot tables, except those would be too complicated for this environment.</p>
  
  <p>Does such a tool exist, or am I doomed to spend the rest of my corporate programming career writing one off reports?</p>