I am a big fan of these simplistic solutions. In my own area, it was incredibly frustrating as what we needed was a database with a smaller subset of the most recent information from our main long-term storage database for back end users to do important one-off analysis with. This should've been fairly cheap, but of course the IT director architect guy wanted to pad his resume and turn it all into multi-million project with 100 bells and whistles that nobody wanted.