Reporting Life Cycle

Every organization follows a standard reporting lifecycle which can be classified as follows:

Authoring: In this phase, the report author defines the layout and syntax of the data. The tools used in this process are the SQL Server Development Studio and SSRS tool.

Management: This phase involves managing a published report which is mostly part of the websites. In this stage, you need to consider access control over report execution.

Delivery: In this phase, you need to understand when the reports need to be delivered to the customer base. Delivery can be on-demand or pre-defined schedule. You can also add an automation feature of subscription which creates reports and sends to the customer automatically.