RobertCotton
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- Nov 1, 2010
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Good Morning.
I have been working with Power Pivot for a while now and have become a big proponent. The next step for me is to publish my Power Pivot workbooks to SharePoint so that my "audience" that, in most circumstances, do not have the Power Pivot addin installed can use my reports. Publishing my workbooks to SharePoint seems to be the perfect solution. However, my IT department telling me that the cost of upgrading servers ( both hardware and software) is too prohibitive. They tell me that we would have to move from SQL Small Business to SQL Enterprise and pay individual licensing fees for each user, and on and on and on. I am also tring to get them to install SSRS services so that I can publish SSRS reports to SharePoint and getting much the same story.
While I am not an IT guy, I have done some "due diligence" as far as researching their claims. I have purchased 2 SSRS reporting books that seem to support my position that this is not a big deal.
Does anyone here have any experience with these issues and would you be willing to share those experiences? I have told my boss I can provide him and the rest of the company with all sorts of wonerful new reports using Power Pivot and SSRS only to find hardcore resistance by our IT department in helping me to do so.
Thanks
Robert
I have been working with Power Pivot for a while now and have become a big proponent. The next step for me is to publish my Power Pivot workbooks to SharePoint so that my "audience" that, in most circumstances, do not have the Power Pivot addin installed can use my reports. Publishing my workbooks to SharePoint seems to be the perfect solution. However, my IT department telling me that the cost of upgrading servers ( both hardware and software) is too prohibitive. They tell me that we would have to move from SQL Small Business to SQL Enterprise and pay individual licensing fees for each user, and on and on and on. I am also tring to get them to install SSRS services so that I can publish SSRS reports to SharePoint and getting much the same story.
While I am not an IT guy, I have done some "due diligence" as far as researching their claims. I have purchased 2 SSRS reporting books that seem to support my position that this is not a big deal.
Does anyone here have any experience with these issues and would you be willing to share those experiences? I have told my boss I can provide him and the rest of the company with all sorts of wonerful new reports using Power Pivot and SSRS only to find hardcore resistance by our IT department in helping me to do so.
Thanks
Robert
