Cyberwolf Software's Hunter line of products allows you to access all of your data (production, historical, etc.), usually with a single user interface. This solves many business needs and is a great reason to engage us. Additionally, we've found that when end users have easy access to all the data they need, a whole slew of other challenges are met. One of our Fortune 500 chemical clients is a 10+ year user of the Hunter Client application and uses the ability to access, pivot and review data how they want when they want (the Six Sigma black belts's there love us) across a number of business units. An unexpected benefit is their ISO 9000 reports that used to take multiple days are now complete in a matter of hours. Is more regulation headed down the pike in your industry?
I don't know, but wouldn't it be nice to know you can meet changing data requests without losing 100's of work hours?