>We have been looking for a way to allow our users to design and maintain some of their own reports. Is anyone familiar with the Reporting Services provided with SQL Server 2000? Does this have a user-friendly front end for the users to create their own query and reports? Does it hide all the complexity(behind the scenes) of the database? Could a user that doesn't know SQL very well, create reports easily? Any help/comments would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
Their is supposed to be a browser based designer, but I don't think it is nessisarily for 'end users' and that you don't have to write queries.
There are some third party products that leverage reporting server with a much better end user query and report builder. You can also build reports with the same tool that users can customize. Take a look at Cizer Quick Query.
http://www.cizer.com/portalcsvs/DesktopDefault.aspxBOb
