Hi @Anonymous,
I am assuming you know Crystal Reports ? SSRS is essentially Microsoft's equivalent product. SSRS is not as good as Crystal Reports in a one-on-one comparison. However, once you take into account Microsoft's entire BI suite and tie it in with Sharepoint, you now have a BI product that is pretty much in a league of its own.
I would just google ssrs tutorials (I don't know of any particular sites.). However, there are a lot of companies offering SSRS courses that can go from 1 - 3 days.
As mentioned, I think Sharepoint should be seen as a portal to BI. It helps tie all of Microsoft's BI products into one accessible location and is actually good practise to encourage people to store data files in a common location for reporting. To the end user, they will assume it is all the one product. To you and me, we will know it consists of up to 10 different BI products that we need to manage separately. The end user does not need to know this.
Microsoft's BI suite is quite large and it makes sense to integrate it into a common location. From memory, these products are:
1. Power BI - Equivalent to Qlik & Tableau
2. PowerPivot
3. PowerView
4. PowerMap - Mapping analysis
4. PowerQuery - Analysis
5. SSAS - Cubes. The most powerful form of data analyis. Similar to COGNOS and Business Objects
6. SSRS - Report design and publishing similar to Crystal Reports
7. Excel
Sharepoint has a native viewer that allows files from these various products to be viewed/used within Sharepoint. The option still exists to open them up in the original program as well.
When I joined my company, they had COGNOS, Crystal Reports, Tableau, Sharepoint, an unknown BI product from the UK, and a 3rd party data warehosue provider. This was overkill. We now have a much simpler BI product (as described above) that does what all the previous products used to do combined. The new solution is not perfect, but it easily replicates 95% of the capability that we used to have, plus the addition of new capability.
Cheers,
Daniel
