We can be up to 24 hours behind for the reporting.

The issue isn't with being up to date, it's that reporting will prevent logs from being applied for ~14 hours/day,...

Some progress, but still somewhat stuck.

To recap: we have a transactional DB on server [A], which is log shipping to a backup DB on server . This arrangement works fine,...

We have log shipping.

Does that mean we can't report while logs are being applied?

What method of replication would be more appropriate?

The requirements is that we need to report from...

Thanks for the replies guys, much appreciated.

I've gone with the 'single report being called over and over' approach, using this example:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/reportexecution2005.reportexecutionservice.render.aspx