I’ve read that Epicor is switching from SSRS to Bold reports. Do we know what version that is happening on? I’m trying to plan all the things we need to do for the year.
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There are no details yet but I’m guessing maybe in 2027. If Epicor is smart they’ll let 2026 be the year of killing off Classic UI (.NET client) and give us customers a little breathing room before forcing another change on us.
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That would be awesome. We are a very small team, me (epicor Admin) and one developer. Contrary to popular opinion we don’t love to work 15 hour days 7 days a week. 
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Sounds like the plan is during the 2026 releases, but I wouldn’t be surprised if its slips:
They also said there would probably be an overlap period where both would work
Everything was under and on top of that they change their mind from things they announce on stage after a few months, so I don’t know if making plans around what they say is really that important.
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I would bet it won’t be until 2028+. That saves them figuring out how to implement it for on premise customers, since bold reports is a cloud service, that was one of the huge unanswered questions on the announcement - how are you going to force on premise customers to rely on a third party cloud service for something as fundamental as reporting? I would bet the answer to that is, we won’t.
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On Epicor Ideas, they did mention there would also be a testing period. So, I would guess it would by at least 2027 as well if not later.
With there only being two of us we have to plan ahead. We have a ton of SSRS reports that our business relies on. Epicor reminds me of 
oh wait did I say something hold on there is another (I know it’s a chipmunk but you get the idea.)
Well that makes sense that Bold reports are cloud based.
Thank you all for the replies.
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Bold is supposed to mostly take our SSRS RDLs so this could be a pretty easy conversion but we don’t know until we get there.
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They are not going to pull SSRS as soon as they add Bold… Unless they are…bold that is (Yikes! But I doubt it)
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Agreed, given that Crystal is still an option after all these years I doubt they will turn off SSRS on day one of the Bold launch and given the toted benefit of Bold being essentially able to just pick up an SSRS RDL with no modification I suspect (hope) that even for 1-2 releases they still release SSRS RDLs (at least through 2028).
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We hope to have some of bold reports available in early 2027. We do plan to have bold and ssrs running at the same time during the transition period.
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Thank you Tim. Now go back to your vacation!
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It looks like SQL Server 2022 is last version to support SSRS; it won’t exist in SQL Server 2025.
So I assume the Kinetic timing of SSRS deprecation is when they move SaaS from SQL 2022 to 2025…?
@timshuwy any updates on SSRS cloud stability…Seems that there appears to be constant issues after upgrades.
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It’s a separate download now so I can’t see why you couldn’t be using SQL 2025 and be running SSRS 2022… Not tested this BTW 
Hmm I imagine it’s one of those things that probably works fine but isn’t “supported”.
Thank our lucky stars this change is not coming this year, already enough to manage.
I’m pretty good with SSRS, but wouldn’t mind a better tool. Fingers crossed the current reports don’t need to much repair for the change.
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Something like Crystal designer or even Bartender designer. A proper WSIWIG would be awesome.
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My understanding of the situation with SQL 2025 and SSRS is that it should work but that it has been replaced with Power BI Report Server which previously was an extra cost outside of SQL Enterprise but is now included (like SSRS was) and that it basically uses the same Report Designer (or close enough).
So really, the king is dead, long live the king.
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It’s been my suspicion that switching to Bold Reports has been part of the reason to kill off on-prem.
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