Can you be more specific by what you mean with Batch Reporting? You mean generating HTML reports using ODS, right?
We often get involved in modernisation projects of legacy systems, and often one of the things people are most impressed with is how awesome you can make and old school ODS report look with just a decent css3 stylesheet. Have a look at the stylesheet=(url="relativecsspath.css") option. It's good, and quite often you can either reuse css used elsewhere in your organisation, or delegate the styling work to someone from your digital / design dept (again, it's just css). Just keep in mind the browser that you're targetting.
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