Webinar: Business Still Wants Paginated Reports. Nobody Told Them It's Not 2010 Anymore.

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Microsoft Fabric Webinar Series Session 4:

Business Still Wants Paginated Reports. Nobody Told Them It's Not 2010 Anymore.

Rich dashboards, analytics, and agents are impressive, but your business still needs paginated reports. That need is justified. Invoices, statements, compliance documentation, and operational lists require precise, formatted, printable outputs. The issue is what's currently available for creating these reports. SQL Server Reporting Services, introduced in 2004, has seen few meaningful updates in over ten years and is no longer actively developed.

Paginated reports in Power BI Online often struggle with performance and scalability. Most teams are maintaining tools that are quietly becoming obsolete. On September 24, we're presenting a new solution. It's an AI-driven, definition-first platform for reporting and search that eliminates the need for a report designer.

Simply describe what you want in plain English. An AI generates a schema-validated definition that runs against Azure AI Search and Microsoft Fabric. Row-level security is enforced on the server, not by the AI, ensuring reliable results free from hallucinations. You can view the output in the browser and export it to Excel or PDF. No report designer required. No dragging fields onto a canvas. Just describe your report.

What we'll cover:

The reasons behind the stall in paginated reporting, exploring SSRS, Power BI Online, and the gap that neither addresses
The importance of a schema-validated, definition-first architecture and why it outperforms manually crafted reports
How an AI agent turns plain English into production-ready output, translating user intent into executable results
Security measures for AI-driven processes, enforcing low-level server-side security to prevent hallucinated results
The collaboration between Azure AI Search and Fabric, each handling the intensive workload
A live walkthrough creating a real report and search page from a simple sentence, then exporting to Excel and PDF

Who this is for

IT leaders, data architects, Microsoft Fabric admins, developers, and anyone still maintaining SSRS reports or fighting with paginated reports in Power BI Online.

Why it matters

Dashboards answer "How are we doing?" Paginated reports answer: "Give me this exact list, formatted this way, secured correctly, every time." These are different problems. Only one has a modern solution.

If your business still relies on paginated output and your reporting platform hasn't meaningfully changed since 2010, this session shows a path forward without rebuilding SSRS.

Save your seat for September 24

This is Session 4 of our 8-part Microsoft Fabric Webinar Series. AI is only as good as the data it relies on, and this series addresses that, one architectural layer at a time. See the full lineup and the thread that ties it all together.