SSRS reports on the IPad or IPhone has been improved since SQL 2012 SP1

Almost 2 years ago I wrote a blogpost about SQL Server Reporting Service (SSRS) Reports on the IPad or IPhone. I was the first time you could display SSRS reports on the IPad. Unfortunatly not everything was rendered in a correct way. In SQL Server 2012 SP1 this has been improved.

Here is an example of a report in SQL 2008 R2



 Here is an example of the same report in SQL 2012 SP1

As you can see, the strange Blue Question marks are gone.

Starting with SQL 2012 Service Pack 1 (SP1), Reporting Services supports viewing and basic interactivity with reports on Apple iOS devices like IPad en Iphone, with the Apple Safari browser.
Viewing reports in Report Manager (http://myserver/reportserver) is not suppported. You need to start the reports from the report server via http://myserver.reports. Here you can browse to the report and tape the report name to open the report. After opening the report yiu can see that the Export to PDF and TIFF file is supported. More information about the support for Apple iOS devices on SSRS can be found here.
For a video of using SSRS on your Ipad please see:

Register your hours spent really simple and fast in SaaS solution Exact Online.

In the past I blogged about 8 reasons why I uses a Saas accounting solution for my financial administration. Up till today, I still uses Exact Online with a lot of pleasure for my financial administration. With the introduction of Exact Online Time & Billing in november 2011, we started to use this module in my company for the hour registration of different development teams. As you can see in the title of my blog, I like solutions which are Simple And Fast. The Time and Billing iPhone app is one one of these solutions I like because it is Simple and Fast. Registering my hours is a matter of seconds. Start the app and press the hours symbol.

Now I got a list of all days. The days for which I need to register my hours can be recognized by the plus symbol. Press on the plus symbol.

For the selected day, I can specify the Project, Relation, hour classification and the hours I have spent.

Press on the green submit (Indienen) button and you are done.

Within 1 minute I have entered the hours I spent for the whole week on my iPhone. Hour registration is now fun instead of a boring activity. This app is also available for Android.

The iPhone app can be download via this link or scan this QR tag. Of course this app will also work on the iPad.

More information about the Time and Billing solution can be found here (unfortunatly Dutch only).
Have fun with the registration of the hours you have spent.