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If you are seeking comprehensive, server-based reporting solution designed to help you author, manage, and deliver both paper-based and interactive Web-based reports, the Microsoft Business Intelligence platform is an ideal solution to provide fast, reliable reporting solutions. Having the right information at the right time can mean the difference between a new discovery and catapulting business growth and success into the next decade.
That is the power behind Reporting Services that extend the Microsoft Business Intelligence (BI) platform to reach the information worker who needs access to business data. Seemingly complex analyses can be organized and clarified through customized reports that can reach a broad audience through the distribution of reports as a data source for downstream business intelligence.
 Business intelligence is one of the highest ROI investments that businesses can make. Not only does business intelligence provide businesses with valuable insight to make informed decisions, business intelligence that measures that right metrics can lead to a multitude of benefits, such as faster sales and a better understanding of what methods are working or not working to improve profits. Microsoft Business Intelligence Reporting Services provides: A high performance engine for processing and formatting reports. A complete set of tools for creating, managing, and viewing reports. An extensible architecture and open interfaces for embedding reports or integrating reporting solutions in diverse IT environments.
Reporting Services combines a single, complete reporting platform with a scalable and extensible architecture to meet a wide variety of reporting needs. Enterprise reporting: enterprises can use Reporting Services for their operational reporting or business intelligence applications. Using Reporting Services, corporate IT staff can design a variety of reports and deploy them to individuals throughout the enterprise, using a combination of e-mail distribution and publishing on a corporate portal. Ad Hoc reporting: SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services includes Report Builder 1.0; the latest version of the ad hoc reporting tool that enables business users to create their own reports and explore corporate data. Report Builder incorporates a user-friendly business query model that enables users to build reports without deep technical understanding of the underlying data sources. Embedded reporting: Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) can use Reporting Services to deliver pre-defined or ad hoc reports as part of a packaged application. The customer's IT organization can access these reports as-is, customize reports or create new ones for specific business needs. Web-based reporting for partners/customers: Organizations can deploy interactive web-based reports to deliver information to customers or partners over extranets of the Internet. Reporting Services isolates report consumers from the complexity of the underlying data sources, while providing personalization and interactivity.
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