Professional Microsoft® SharePoint® Server 2007 Reporting with SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services

12.4. Summary

If you've made it this far in the book, congratulations! You've created a report, deployed it to SharePoint, and finally displayed your report on a SharePoint site. You went over requirements gathering, report development basics, and the different methods of deploying reports by creating a custom PowerShell script and custom SharePoint Features. You created dashboard and enhanced them using AJAX and jQuery and also created a custom web service that allowed you to create custom joins on LOB databases and SharePoint lists.

In the final chapter of the book, you worked with gauges and enhanced your existing reports and SharePoint sites with them. We hope you enjoyed this journey as much we have enjoyed writing about it. In today's world, SharePoint and Business Intelligence are two very important topics, and if you're working on bringing them together, welcome on board!

The power of Business Intelligence using SQL Reporting Services 2008 in SharePoint integrated mode hopefully came out in this book, and we hope that what you've learned has inspired you to create solutions that will solve critical business needs.