SQL Server Reporting

Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services provides a complete, server-based platform designed to support a wide variety of reporting needs enabling organizations to deliver relevant information where needed across the entire enterprise.

Design Reports
Create comprehensive, richly formatted reports quickly and easily. Features include:

  • Benefit from increased productivity through familiar Microsoft Visual Studio-based report development tools. Take advantage of intuitive design interfaces and wizards to quickly build reporting solutions
  • Build reports from different data sources throughout your business
  • Enable business users to create their own reports and explore corporate data by using Microsoft Report Builder 2.0, an intuitive and familiar Microsoft Office-optimised authoring environment
  • Choose from flexible data representation options
  • Use the new richly formatted text capabilities to create text boxes containing mixed styles, paragraphs, and hyperlinks. Use expressions to implement inline formatting of your data
    Enrich reports by visualizing data graphically, leveraging a wealth of new rich gauge and charting capabilities

Manage Reports
Simplified management of your reporting environment with a variety of powerful manageability tools including:

  • Schedule report execution, manage report subscriptions, and control access to reports through the Web-based Report Manager
  • Integrate Reporting Services with Microsoft SharePoint Technologies for central manageability of reports in a familiar Office environment
  • Use the Reporting Services role-based security model to secure access to reports, folders, resources and shared data sources

Deliver Reports
Deliver richly formatted reports to users through a variety of mechanisms. Features include:

  • Reach users across the organization with reports rendered in the format that makes the most sense for them. Rendering options include HTML, PDF, CSV, XML, and Image (TIFF) as well as Microsoft Office Word and Excel
  • Enable business users to subscribe to reports, or create data-driven subscriptions to centrally manage automatic multi-recipient report delivery
  • Deliver reports through e-mail or post them to a shared folder on your network

How Can We Help?
If you are already running SQL Server you probably already have access to some of the above components for no additional software cost. Even if you do not currently have SQL Server installed we can assess your reporting requirements to assess whether Reporting Services is a sensible option for you to consider.

We can also discuss with you some of the other corporate grade Business Intelligence options available through SQL Server 2008.