Here is a pretty good blog post on "End-User Microsoft BI Tools": http://www.jamesserra.com/archive/2012/02/end-user-microsoft-bi-tools-clearing-up-the-confusion/
Among other things it talks about what was ProClarity and its tools.
I think what I am really asking is what other tools are there out there besides say Report Builder (and obviously Visual Studio) that enables end users to quickly create their own RDLs? I thought that Tableau software used to do this, and maybe they still do, but Tableau requires server software presuming you want to go against live SQL Server data.
Any nifty tools out there then that create RDLs and ideally automatically correctly joins tables based on what an end user drags-and-drops into the query/table/report to be displayed? And I really don't want to go down the path of server-based software, something like a thick client desktop tool would be ideal -- a Visual Studio light package that again, provides a graphical user interface with end users and drag and drop report creation capability.
Thanks, any comments appreciated