Roadmap

During the last couple of years we have actively been working towards bringing Telerik Reporting closer to a true BI solution. You can now create complicated reports in just a few minutes without writing a single line of code. Telerik Reporting has a highly intuitive design environment and wizards for the most common and time-consuming scenarios. The unique WYSIWYG design surface which simulates graph papers gives you the actual layout of all the elements as they would appear on a sheet of paper.

In Q2 we will focus mainly on improving the usability of the product by fixing outstanding issues and providing additional wizards for the tabular data presentation items (crosstabs, tables and lists). We also plan to enhance the design time experience for the tabular presentation, and add functionality for merging/splitting cells.

We will start researching and working on various other enhancements and improvements, which will most probably appear in future versions:

• New data source that will allow filtering and grouping to be done on database level, rather than in memory. This will bring major improvements to the product’s performance, because the most resource-intensive operations will be done on the server, rather than on the client.
• Enhanced chart report item that will use the data source of the Reporting engine. The benefit here lies in the fact that you would not have to bind the chart separately; rather it will automatically bind after being dropped onto the design surface.
• Repeating headers for tabular data items, as well as improving the horizontal paging of the report.