Microsoft® SQL Server™ 2000 Reporting Services is a new server-based reporting platform that you can use to create and manage tabular, matrix, graphical, and free-form reports that contain data from relational and multidimensional data sources. The reports that you create can be viewed and managed over a Web-based connection.
Reporting Services provides a complete set of services, tools, and application programming interfaces (APIs), but you do not have to be a programmer to use Reporting Services. You can use the applications and tools included in Reporting Services to author, publish, and manage reports. There is a tool or application that supports each phase of the report lifecycle. For those who do program, an API is available to extend or integrate report capabilities into custom solutions.