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Microsoft Slowly but Surely Pushes into the Enterprise  

A news article on how Microsoft’s SSRS[SQL Server Reporting Services] is making its way into the business.

“[Recently,] Reporting Services [has been] getting very close to functionality — in our estimates [it has] about 80 percent of the Crystal functionality –and we are looking more into migrating to a single reporting platform.”

Tangra finished migrating from SQL Server 2000 to SQL Server 2005 about a year ago. Once it went live on SQL Server 2005, Tangra started shifting more of its Crystal assets over to SSRS. If — as expected — Microsoft closes at least some of the gap with Crystal Reports in the next revision of SSRS, which is scheduled to ship with SQL Server 2008 later this year, Tangra will almost certainly make additional use of that product, Ratchev reports.

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Written by Guru Kirthigavasan

March 26th, 2008 at 7:51 am