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Unlock the Value
of Your Data with
Microsoft Reporting Services
To
be successful in today's competitive marketplace, organizations
need to extend information beyond the walls of their organization
and seamlessly interact with customers, partners, and suppliers
in real time. Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services enables
organizations to transform valuable enterprise data into shared
information for insightful, timely decisions at a lower total
cost of ownership.
SQL
Server Reporting Services is a comprehensive, server-based solution
that enables the creation, management, and delivery of both
traditional, paper-oriented reports and interactive, Web-based
reports. An integrated part of the Microsoft business intelligence
framework, Reporting Services combines the data access capabilities
to IBM UniVerse, IBM UniData and Pick D3 databases
with the familiar and powerful Microsoft Office System applications
to deliver real-time information to support daily operations
and drive decisions. The data connection between Microsoft Reporting
Services and IBM UniVerse, IBM UniData, and Pick D3
databases is enabled by Raining Data's Pick Reporting Services
Connector (based on the Pick Data Provider for .NET product).
An
Integrated Architecture
SQL
Server Reporting Services supports a wide range of common data
sources, such as OLE DB and Open Database Connectivity (ODBC),
as well as multiple output formats such as familiar Web browsers
and Microsoft Office System applications. Using Microsoft Visual
Studio® .NET and the Microsoft .NET Framework,
developers can leverage the capabilities of their existing information
systems and connect to custom data sources, produce additional
output formats, and deliver to a variety of devices.
Full
Reporting Life Cycle Support
SQL
Server Reporting Services supports the full reporting life cycle,
including:
Report authoring. Report developers can create
reports to be published to the Report Server using Microsoft
or third-party design tools that use Report Definition Language
(RDL), an XML-based industry standard used to define reports.
Report management. Report definitions, folders,
and resources are published and managed as a Web service.
Managed reports can be executed either on demand or on a specified
schedule, and are cached for consistency and performance.
Report delivery. SQL Server Reporting Services
supports both on-demand (pull) and event-based (push) delivery
of reports. Users can view reports in a Web-based format or
in e-mail.
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