GSquared (8/8/2012)
If execs are looking for ad hoc reporting tools, it's hard to go wrong with pivot tables. PowerPivot and Excel have been mentioned already. I haven't used PowerPivot, but Excel pivot tables reading from SSAS are a great way to let execs, etc., "build their own reports". I've seen problems with the kind of people who want to know why the TV on their desk has a typewritter plugged into it, but anyone beyond that stage can learn Excel pivot tables pretty rapidly, in my experience.
Thanks Aaron
We're not running SSAS right now, just plain old SQL and SSRS. The majority of the reporting is operational data. From what I understand about SSAS (very little) is that it's more for data warehousing, so should really operational data. We obviously do have historic data that we could warehouse and I want to explore that, but right now it's mostly operational data