Report Presentation (Rendering) Formats

SSRS offers a choice of presentation formats for the report. The following formats are available: Extensible Markup Language (XML), web-oriented Hypertext Markup Language (HTML, HTML with Office Web Components, and Web archive MHT), page-oriented such as Tagged Image File Format (TIFF) or Portable Document Format (PDF), and desktop application (Excel and CSV) formats.

Switching between presentation formats is very fast and does not requery data sources. This is accomplished by separation of data processing from final rendering, enabling multiple users to choose different rendering options for the same report.