This is our final post in a recent series. We have looked closer at Microsoft’s Report Builder 3.0 through a series of posts. In our final post on this topic we speak to an important benefit for enterprise IT support organizations: when line of business (LOB) users are successfully empowered with Report Builder 3.0, SQL […]
Some Background on the History of Report Builder 3.0 may be Helpful
In 2004, Microsoft® acquired a company by the name of ActiveViews, Inc. The asset that Microsoft was after was ActiveViews’ ” . . . ad hoc reporting system takes advantage of the power of Microsoft .NET and SQL Server TM Reporting Services to allow users to easily unlock and explore data stored in a myriad […]
Power Users and Information Workers can Avail of Report Builder 3.0 Benefits With Reporting Services Add-In for SharePoint 2010
Broadly identifying likely benefits that line of business (LOB) organizations can obtain through the use of a tool like Report Builder 3.0 is not an easy task. But, given the past few posts to this blog, which we wrote to present the benefits to these same LOB organizations, as well as to the enterprise IT […]
Enterprise IT Organizations Using Microsoft’s BI Platform should Equip LOB Users with Training Content through SharePoint
Our video training content set, Reporting Services Using SharePoint 2010 and Report Builder 3.0 is available either for single user viewing, or unlimited enterprise-wide viewing. At a one time cost of $1995.00, we think that enterprises with a complex commitment to the Microsoft Business Intelligence Platform (which includes SQL Server 2008 R2, or SQL Server […]
Using SharePoint Designer 2010 to Manage the Reporting Services for SQL Server 2008 R2 Add-In for SharePoint 2010
Rehmani Consulting, Inc. offers a unique set of video training content on the opportunities presented to LOB organizations as well as enterprise IT to implement “no code” methods with Reporting Services 2008 R2 to build custom automated processes that can service organization-specific needs. The set of content, SharePoint Designer 2010: Reporting Services. To recap, Reporting […]
Use the Report Viewer Web Part for SharePoint to Display SQl Server 2008 R2 Data as a Report or Build a Dashboard to Display Multiple Reports
Microsoft’s MSDN web site offers a set of documents on the Report Viewer Web Part (Reporting Services in SharePoint Integrated Mode). For readers who are not familiar with how the term “Report Viewer Web Part” is used by Microsoft, it is important to understand that the same term is used for two very different set […]
Training Site Owners, Citizen Developers, and Higher Level Users of SharePoint 2010 in the SQL Server Reporting Feature Makes Sense
In the prior post to this blog we made a case for SharePoint 2010 Reporting Services as a particularly high value feature. To summarize, enterprises can certainly benefit from availing of SQL Server Reporting Services, which are based on XML, and, therefore, can be displayed (at least in raw form) with any of a very […]
SharePoint 2010 Reporting Services Add-In Delivers Benefits that can Drive User Adoption
In our opinion, Microsoft® greatly expanded the utility of reporting tools for SQL Server back in 2004 by choosing to base them on ” . . . the Report Definition Language (RDL), which is an XML-based standard for defining reports. RDL is key to the Reporting Services success by allowing third parties to publish reports […]
Users Need Access to Training Content Directly Within a SharePoint Work Computing Environment
As we mentioned in the prior post to this blog, Windows IT Pro magazine has awarded VisualSP™ from Rehmani Consulting, Inc. (owner of SharePoint-Videos dot com with the bronze medal for SharePoint Product of the Year for 2012. In our opinion, the fact that our help system provisions access to users to a wide range […]
Implementing Browser Based Process Development for SharePoint 2013 can Produce Considerable Cost Savings for Enterprise Organizations
It is worth taking a blog post to reflect on an unstated, but nevertheless core assumption of Asif Rehmani’s presentation at the SharePoint 2012 Conference, “Building Composite Solutions for SharePoint 2013 with the Browser”. This core assumption is that it makes sense for enterprise organizations to empower SharePoint 2013 site owners and power users with […]