Hello everybody!
We are developing a business application targeting a manufacturing industry segment. It is a hosted web-based solution with SQL Server 2012 as database and ASP.net vb.net as development environment (and stored procedures). We need a robust strategy for reporting integrated in the application. There are needs for a dash board incl KPI:s, printing and e-mailing of business documents as order confirmations and invoices and finally a set of pre-defined reports for statistics as order intake, invoicing,etc. Probably there is also a need for skilled users to be able to extract data to Excel and other tools as well for ad-hoc and customized purposes. For the moment Reporting Services seems to be a natural choice and it should cover all the needs. However, it is challenging to find out how to implement it into the ASP application and the server environment. I would be very grateful for any kind of advice how to create a suitable infrastructure for our reporting.
Thanks in advance, Gunnar