Hello All, My company is a small company that uses an application running on SQL Server 2008 and the application itself has some built in reporting. The owners of my company are looking for custom reporting options outside of what is being offered by the application vendor. At first I thought I would simply use SQL reporting services, but it appears that Reporting Services was never installed with the appliclation and due to my limited knowledge of SQL I am hesitant to start messing with our production server. I have created some reports in Excel and the owners are happy, but i would like to look into some sort of reporing package where the end users can easily access and change reporting criteria when they like. Right now with the Excel Reports, i am stuck editing and changing the reports when the owners want to look at a different date range. I would also like to create some scheduled reports that can be emailed. Right now i am looking at some community projects in the hopes of keeping the inital costs low. I have experminted with installing Japser Server and Jasper iReport on a WIndows XP machine but i keep running into some issues. The JasperServer version does not seem to include a very robust report designer and I cannot get iReport to connect to my database. I was hoping the community could give me some guidance on which path I should go down. Any help or information is greatly appreciated.
