Power BI vs SSRS POC

1. POWER BI OR SSRS

2. REPORT MANAGER & REPORT SERVER
• Report server – Deploy the report
• Report Manager –End user access the report

3. SSRS – IMPORTANT COMPONENT
Report Server
• Core engine of the SSRS
• Handle all processes, tasks and requests
Report Server DB
• Stores various data and setting of the SSRS
Request Builder
• Report designer tool which helps to design and deploy SQL server reporting service reports.

4. SSRS - ARCHITECTURE

5. SECURITY & ROLE
Item-level roles are defined on the root node (Home) and all items throughout the report server folder
hierarchy.
System-level roles authorize access at the site level.

6. SCHEDULE
• Reporting Services provides shared schedules and report-specific schedules to help you
control processing and distribution of reports. The difference between the two types of
schedules is how they are defined, stored, and managed.

7. Power BI SSRS
Technology • business intelligence technology used for
dealing with data and creating reports
• Conventional
• server-based report generating and data
analysis
Component • cloud-enabled SaaS • Server-based enterprise report generation
and visualization tool.
Size limit • No • Yes, 1GB (free version)
Benefit • User-friendly
• easy-to-use tool for report creation and data
analysis
• rich in graphical capabilities.
• Does not have much to offer in the area of
graphics.
• it has a good drill-down capacity.
Accessibility web, mobile devices (apps) and desktop. use SSRS on the web and on the desktop
Licensing Desktop free version
Pro/Premium paid version
Need SQL Server license
UI / Usage More user-friendly due to its rich graphical user
interface and drag-and-drop capabilities
Less user-friendly as it focuses more on a
coding/programming interface.
Data dependency both structured and unstructured data Structured and semi-structured data but not
unstructured data
Export Only PDF, PPTX ,(CSV- tiles) CSV, PDF, Excel, Word (more clean)
Schedule/Refresh Limited refresh rate (8/day) Hourly (overall or report specific)