Foreword
It’s been only eight years since the first release of Reporting Services, but during this time, the Reporting Services team delivered five releases (SSRS 2000, SSRS 2005, SSRS 2008, SSRS 2008 R2, and SSRS 2012) covering three high-volume product lines (SQL Server, Visual Studio, and Office). Although the focus was on developers, independent software vendors, and database administrators initially, the needs and expectations have evolved and expanded to information workers as well.
Business intelligence is an area in constant evolution, as is reporting. BI is not just about operational reporting or ad hoc reporting, or even embedded reporting with every operational and business application anymore. Dashboarding, visual analytics, scorecarding, ...
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