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>>SSRS has a very nice feature - IT'S FREE!
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>Wellllllll...."sort of"
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>It's part of SQL Server, yes. So if you have SQL Server, you get the different BI services (SSIS, SSAS, SSRS)
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>But where the challenge comes in - depending on what version of SQL Server and the licensing - an IT department might run into major server resource issues if the load on the database and the load on the report server is too heavy. Even though MS has refactored the report server engine, many SSRS server processes are resource intensive. So some places wind up installing SSRS on a different server - which means an additional license - and then the "free" aspect might go out the window.
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>There are scale-out options that provide some additional context - but bottom line, is it free? That depends :)

Correct

I should have said that the builders and SOME SQL Servers - are free.
It really is an amazing tool.