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Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009: Professional Reporting

You're reading from   Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009: Professional Reporting Discover all the tips and tricks for Dynamics NAV report building

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2011
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781849682442
Length 352 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (15) Chapters Close

Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009: Professional Reporting
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
1. Charts and Dimensions FREE CHAPTER 2. Creating a Report in the Classic Client 3. Creating Role Tailored Reports 4. Visualization Methods 5. Developing Specific Reports 6. Other Reporting and Business Intelligence Tools 7. A View of the Future Index

Reporting Services


The first technology you should check out, in my opinion, is SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS). It is in fact the technology on which the RDLC reports are based, but RDL has much more to offer and has some interesting advantages.

Since you have invested your time to learn how to develop RDLC reports for the Role Tailored client, why not get a bigger return on investment on that? Is it possible to apply the knowledge gained to server side Reporting Services? I will try to answer that in this section.

SQL Server Reporting Services and in fact already is becoming an important reporting tool for Dynamics NAV. One reason is that it is available for free for anyone who is using the SQL Server database services. Another reason is that SSRS can connect to any Dynamics NAV database or version. It can even connect to a native NAV database, although I would not recommend that. Furthermore, with SSRS there are more possibilities for report design and visualisations. For example,...

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