Real Report Builder 2008 improvements for Analysis Services

sqlbi — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 22:38:23 GMT

Brian Welcker (who is leaving SSRS team - good luck Brian!) has announced a long explanation of the Report Builder 2008 positioning.

For me (and all of you who live in the multidimensional business...) the most important part of the post is this simple sentence:

[...] However, for folks building reports against Analysis Services cubes, auto-generating a model is no longer required.

This is really a good news who will drive Report Builder adoption in SSAS shops. I still haven't tested Report Builder 2008 very much, but this news will help me to find the time to do it.

SSRS 2008 Is IIS-Free

andyleonard — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 14:09:00 GMT

Microsoft has severed the IIS dependency for SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) in the 2008 version, according to a couple sources.

Reasons cited include :

Deployment considerations (some enterprises prohibit IIS on database servers).
Better configuration.
Better resource management.

:{> Andy

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