It does affect SSRS adoption but SSRS (sql server reporting service) still has a place as long as there’s need for printer-friendly reporting and self-service vendors don’t have a good solution to meet this need.
Also, SSRS is great for automating operational reports that sends out emails with raw data (list of customers, products, sales transaction etc).
I advocate an analytics strategy where we think about satisfying data needs using “self-service”-first (Power BI, tableau, qlik) but if thats not the optimal solution (for cases like need to print it, I just need you to send me raw data in excel, etc) then I’ll mark it as SSRS project. And this architecture is supported by a central data model (aka operational data store, data mart, data warehouse) which makes it much easier to swap in/out any reporting tools that we need and we are not locked in by one vendor.
About 10–20% data requests that I see are SSRS projects and if the self-service platforms start adding features that compete with SSRS, I know I would start using those capabilities and phase out SSRS. But if that doesn’t happen, I will continue using SSRS 🙂
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