PowerPoint format possible?

Hello,

we plan to use Reporting Services in the company in the near future. However, management prefers power point reports, a format which reporting services does not support (please correct me if I am wrong here).

Is there a third party extenstion tool for RS available which can produce PPT reports?

Best regards,

Michael Fuchs

Hello,

I'm not aware of any third-party PowerPoint renderer.

Can you explain your scenario that calls for PowerPoint rendering? Any insight you can offer will help to justify the possibility of providing this functionality in the future.

Thanks,
Chris

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Hello,

Management presents the reports in periodic meetings, currently pdf slides are used (these pdfs don't come from RS but from a self developed program), but this is not desired by management anymore, as pdf is not optimal for a presentation. What we need is nothing too fancy, just a slide with some formatting options (i.e. different templates) and the relevant charts and data presented on the slide.

I heard that ppt output is planned anyway in the next version of reporting services and that it already is in the testing stage. Is that just a rumor or can you confirm that?

Thanks,

Michael