During the design stage of any software project, regarding any business/finance activity,  it’s often visible from the very beginning that some kind of reporting component will be needed for providing user friendly output data. It becomes especially important when it comes to developing a website or a web application, where the Quality of Service and resource consuming are the most important factors in the application’s life cycle. If the mentioned project is an ASP .NET project using Microsoft’s SQL Server 2000 or later, then the choice of Microsoft Reporting Services for this task is rather obvious.