I'm going to have to start with a couple caveats.

1) I don't really have any experience with SSRS.

2) I'm not really sure if it's better but we used this at a place I worked at about 5 years ago.

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I'm not sure I can say it's 'better' than SSRS due to my lack of experience with SSRS. I can tell you that if you're familiar with Visual Studio and/or BIDS, the report designer with be familiar to you.