Reporting Services Architecture (SQL Server 2005)

Find out what's new in SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) 2005 and take a quick look at its architecure in SQL Server 2005. Excerpt: SSRS is a comprehensive and extensible reporting platform, which includes an integrated set of processing components, programmatic interfaces, and tools. Processing components are the basis for the multilayered architecture of SSRS and interact with each other to retrieve data, process layout, render, and deliver a report to a target destination. SSRS supports two categories of components: