I wrote a post a while back about the pros and cons of developing a Report Model based on a cube . I got two comments on it telling me to check out Intelligencia . I decided to look into it, and what can I say? I'm impressed... Intelligencia is an add - in to Visual Studio which helps you build Reporting Services Reports on top of a cube. Those of you who have tried doing that in the past with what there is, probably remember that it wasn't terribly comfortable all of the time... First example...