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Wednesday, February 15, 2012

Reporting Tools Vs. Reporting Life Cycle

I have posted the stages of Reporting life cycle in my previous post. In this post, we will see, how SQL Server Reporting services is supporting full reporting life cycle?
Microsoft has provided collection of tools and services to implement/follow the Life cycle processes. 
Refer the following tables which is classified in form of “Reporting Tools” Vs. “Reporting Life Cycle”


Hope it Helps!

Reporting Life Cycle:-

Reporting life cycle is described as following three phases and listed sequential processes in each phase:-

1. Authoring:
a. Requirement  Gathering
b. Design and Clarification
c. Data & Requirement validation/verfication
2. Management
a. Publishing reports
b. Report configuration for end user access
c. Enhancement
3. Delivery
a. End user consumption in terms of viewing reports
b. On demand request (Pull Methods)
c. Subscription on a predefined schedule (Push Methods)