Were currently contemplating a similar problem here and if your thinking the above is overkill you may think this is too!

I work in a production environment so its request, request, demand here.

Our idea for our solution is to set up an asp.net page with webpart each of which link to a report or "tool / toolset" this way through a customisation page the user can set up their own dashboard. This way the only requests are for new tools.

A small victory but a victory nonetheless.