When it comes to OLAP, SSRS, and DWBI development expertise, few can top Ella Maschiach, so we were delighted when she elected to take OfficeWriter v.8 for a (very thorough) spin.
OfficeWriter is an application that works with Reporting Services in two ways:
1. It allows you to design a report in Word or Excel and render it to an RDL
2. It allows you to take data from an RDL report and use it in a Word or Excel document
I believe just those two points hold within them quite a lot, but we'll get to that shortly.
I decided to try my hand at creating a report on Adventure Works data.
I won't go through how to build a report using OfficeWriter as that's explained in the site in much detail. I would say that it's a matter of half-an-hour, at most, of playing with the application for you to learn it.
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