Replacement of Crystal Reports with Microsoft Reporting Services

The code-based technical solution required for the use of Crystal Reports has proven extremely inflexible and adjustments are very work-intensive. Because support for Crystal Reports in Microsoft Visual Studio is now charged for, a Microsoft-internal solution is preferred and implemented. To enable this, an existing report server and the system's own SQL database are used to export the invoice data from an XML structure to saved procedures. In addition, all Excel reports are converted from Crystal Reports to Microsoft Reporting Services.