Thierry
Why? To get rid of the installation / maintenance / versioning hassles, and set up news labs quicker (developing country).
Absolutely a big advantage of the browser-centric application, in a single-tenant installation at least.
You say 50 reports - how do you implement that? Render to PDF and let the browser handle it from there? How do you design them?
What if you needed to access local printers or file systems directly?