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by davismwfl 4189 days ago
There are other things, like Crystal Reports, Active Reports etc. But what are your requirements? e.g. do you have report writers that need to create reports, or are they developer created only? does it need to handle report subscription like SSRS? Do you need analytics access (e.g. mdx capable reporting)?

I spent quite a long time working with/in SSRS, but we had better success when we used Active Reports. I dreaded working in SSRS overall because it has so many quirks that you have to deal with and it took a lot of tuning, but it does do its job most of the time. Performance wise, Active reports was superior for what we were doing, I found that with the same stored procedure backing the report Active Reports would product output 2-3x faster than SSRS most of the time using far less resources. Not that it is perfect either.