1. Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services:
The Leading Reporting Platform for the Enterprise and the Cloud
Microsoft® SQL Server® 2012 Reporting solutions that are faster to develop and
Services is a comprehensive, highly deploy and easier to use—leading to
scalable solution that enhances real-time broader adoption.
decision-making across the enterprise by
enabling the creation, management, and Productive and Intuitive Report
delivery reports for pixel-perfect printing,
Design
interactive web viewing, and ad hoc data
Access and combine data from virtually
exploration. Microsoft enhances agility
any data source to meet the operational
and offers greater choice by extending
and ad hoc reporting needs of your
reporting into the cloud, allowing
business. Drive faster decisions by enabling users to create
customers to take advantage of the attractive, highly interactive reports in just seconds.
cloud’s accessibility and elasticity.
See data in bold new ways with
Address complex reporting needs
Power View
with familiar tools.
Microsoft makes self-service reporting a
Using the familiar environment of
reality by providing a highly interactive,
Microsoft Visual Studio®, Report Designer
web-based data exploration, visualization,
enables developers to query data directly
and presentation experience to users of
from virtually any data source, including
all levels—from business executives to
relational, multidimensional, XML, and
information workers. Now anyone can
ODBC data sources—including cloud-
create a report in just seconds, transform
based data—and then quickly design
the “shape” of data with a single click,
Obtain full support of the report lifecycle. even the most complex reports with a
add powerful timed animation sequences
high degree of personalization to
Whether you deploy on-premises or as a to quickly identify trends or anomalies,
accommodate a broad range of
hosted service, Reporting Services will and make a more convincing case
audiences across the organization.
help you quickly respond to business through rich presentation of discovered
needs using data-driven insights and insights.

2. Accelerate report creation with makes the most sense for them. Use comprehensive management
intuitive interfaces. Rendering options offer a variety of tools.
Report Builder is a full-featured report formats, including HTML, PDF, CSV, XML, Schedule report execution, manage
authoring tool with a Microsoft Office and Image (TIFF) as well as Microsoft report subscriptions, and control access
look and feel—enabling IT professionals Word 2010 and Microsoft Excel® 2010. to reports through Report Manager—or
and power users to quickly develop leverage the seamless integration with
Securely deliver data to end users for
professional reports using powerful SharePoint for central manageability of
desktop analytics with PowerPivot for
layout and data visualization elements reports in a familiar Microsoft Office
Excel by using reports as data feeds
such as matrix, charts, gauges, and maps; environment.
through an Atom renderer.
or embed sparklines, data bars, or
indicators into a Tablix for an at-a-glance Simplify sharing Extend Reporting to the Cloud
view of performance metrics and trends.
and collaboration. with SQL Azure™ Reporting
Reports can then be enhanced with
Reporting Services delivers seamless Reach users across the globe, and scale
subreports, parameters, sorting, filtering,
integration with Microsoft SharePoint® when and how you need to, by taking
and drill through. Business users can
and provides the ideal environment to advantage of the accessibility and
quickly assemble new reports with IT-
centrally access and share reports. Publish elasticity of the cloud and removing the
developed reusable report components
directly to a SharePoint report library, need to manage or maintain a reporting
from the Report Part Gallery.
create informative sites with report web infrastructure.
parts, or embed into business
applications using ReportViewer controls Get more value from existing
in Visual Studio.
tools and skills.
Use familiar on-premises tools such as
Visual Studio to develop reports and
queries accessing a SQL Azure database
and publish them to the cloud—making
them accessible via a URL or directly from
Drive faster decisions by enabling users to create the SQL Azure portal.
attractive, highly interactive reports in just seconds.
Embed reports directly into applications
Robust Sharing, Delivery, and using ReportViewer in remote mode.
The capabilities of SharePoint 2010 provide a powerful
Management business collaboration platform.
Join the conversation
Reach users across the organization and
Send reports automatically
ensure everyone is using the same www.microsoft.com/sqlserver
resources and the most up-to-date through subscriptions and alerts.
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more efficiently using a single, specific time and/or location or enable
collaborative workspace and flexible users to define their own data-driven
options for publishing and consuming alerts to proactively deliver information
reports. triggered by changing data conditions in
operational reports. Flexible alert rules
Render reports to a wide variety can be customized and managed by each
of formats. user.
Reach users across the organization with
reports rendered in the format that