I think there are a variety of vendor front-end tools that are basically fine. Pentaho, whatever Corda is these days, even the YC start-up chart.io Then you ha

I think there are a variety of vendor front-end tools that are basically fine. Pentaho, whatever Corda is these days, even the YC start-up chart.io Then you have all the enterprise-y stuff, Crystal, Oracle's Warehouse Builder, Business Objects, blah, blah, blah. After a long time, I have kind of come around to the idea that lots of dashboard/BI value is really provided by the implementor, who both intuits what would be valuable to, you know, the business and that it is a "high touch" service. So online providers of just the dashboard designer/data integration are limited in what they can do in a cool, automatic fashion. You might try Pentaho, particularly if you have db servers in-house. They have a free, community open source edition.