FIM Reporting

The Reporting component is brand new in FIM 2010 R2. In earlier versions of FIM, as well as the older MIIS and ILM, reporting was typically achieved by either buying third-party add-ons or developing their own solutions based on SQL Reporting Services.

The purpose of Reporting is to give you a chance to view historical data. There are a few reports built in to FIM 2010 R2, but many organizations will develop their own reports that comply with their Identity Management policies.

The implementation of FIM 2010 R2 will however be a little more complex, if you want the Reporting component. This is because the engine used to generate the reports is the Data Warehouse component of Microsoft System Center Service Manager (SCSM).

There are a number of reasons for using the existing reporting capabilities in SCSM; the main one, I would guess, is that it is easy to extend.

Since the architecture of the Reporting component is quite complex, I will explain it in a dedicated chapter—Chapter 9, Reporting.