SharePoint and SQL Server Reporting Services - Installation and Setup
Posted by: Sahil Malik - blah.winsmarts.com,
on 22 Dec 2007 |
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First of all, why bother with SQL Server Reporting Services? If your organization isn't diving into the data to answer critical questions about the business it is running, it is missing out on a LOT. There is an interesting simile. In the 1950's the United States was mostly a manufacturing economy. We used to produce cars for instance, our car factories were the envy of the world. Car manufacturers used to play a poker game with the steel mills. The steel suppliers would be able to charge higher prices if they knew that a particular car manufacturer has very little steel left, and vice versa. As a result, the car manufacturer had to horde steel, and the steel manufacturer had to guess what the market really needed....