SQL Server Reporting Services
Data, either relational or multidimensional, does not have its own visible face--data is not visual. To have a complete end-to-end data management platform, Microsoft offers a service called Reporting Services (SSRS) as a part of the SQL Server technology set. This service is designated to access data from variety of sources and visualize the data to users. Reporting Services is a favorite service for centralized and managed reporting.
From an architectural point of view, the SSRS is a Windows (or newly Linux) service that offers HTTP/HTTPS endpoints for human-readable as well as web service content consuming. The human-readable endpoint is called Report Portal. It is just a web application for report consumption ...
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