>I have one client who's considering it because of the ability to offload queries to the server, and another who's using it to run daily, weekly, and monthly reports. So, it's not the reporting you're buying with CI, it's the rest of the package. Besides, it also supports Seagate Holos, so you're getting data cubes too.....

It's true that you get good administrative power with CI, to be sure. But according to our contract person, we pay the same large fee for users that only want to design their own reports. The only price break was for those merely running canned reports, though even they have scheduling power... I'm still a bit skeptical about the cost of our contract :)