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To be successful in today's competitive marketplace, organizations need to extend information beyond the walls of their organization and seamlessly interact with customers, partners, and suppliers in real time. Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services enables organizations to transform data into shared information for insightful, timely decisions at a low total cost of ownership.

SQL Server Reporting Services is a comprehensive, server-based platform for creating, managing, and delivering both traditional, paper-oriented reports and interactive, Web-based reports. An integrated part of the Microsoft business intelligence framework, Reporting Services combines the data management capabilities of SQL Server and Microsoft Windows Server^TM with familiar and powerful Microsoft Office System applications to deliver real-time information to support daily operations and decisions.

SQL Server Reporting Services combines integrated analytics including online analytical processing (OLAP); data mining; data warehousing; extract, transform, load (ETL) tools; and data warehousing and reporting functionality.  This event will demonstrate the power of the new reporting tool and explain how it is integrated into the Microsoft solution.  The primary benefit will to your organization is significant cost savings, reduced development savings, increased flexibility and like most Microsoft products it is easy to load.

Kathrine Lord from Microsoft will co-present with Greg Kiefer from Kiefer Consulting, Inc.

Kathrine Lord has 12 years of industry experience in developing and deploying information systems. She is currently the State & Local Government West Region Managing Technical Specialist. She manages a team of System Engineers covering the 13 Western States. Prior to joining Microsoft, Kathrine was the CIO and Information Technology Director for the Arizona Department of Education where she oversaw the development of several statewide information systems in Arizona. Kathrine also has extensive knowledge on information management with various Database Management Systems and other industry initiatives like XML.

Greg Kiefer
Kiefer Consulting


Greg Kiefer has been developing applications for customer for over 20 years, many of which included complex reporting.  He manages a team of developers at Kiefer Consulting, Inc. for build enterprise scalable .NET/SQL Server Report Services solutions.  He is current CIO at Kiefer Consulting, Inc.

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