Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services vs PerformancePoint Services

These 2 products aren't often compared with each other, and they are in fact different. However there are times where their capabilities overlap and reasons for using one instead of the other may be unclear, especially when using these tools together with Analysis Services.

Since not much information on such aspects seem to be available on the internet, below is a basic list displaying some comparisons.

	Reporting Services	PerformancePoint Dashboards
Product	Standardized reports	Dynamic dashboards
Audience	Few to many users	Power users
Usage	Operational and Management	Strategy and Management
Measures	Fixed	Changeable
Dimensions	Fixed	Changeable
Drilldown	Fixed drilldown or drill through path as defined in report	Flexible drilldown for any report
Styling	Customizable to the lowest detail	Fixed appearance
Distribution	Online, Email, File Share or Printed	Online
Export	CSV, Excel, Image, PDF, Word or XML	Excel, PowerPoint (Individual Dashboard Elements)
Security	At report level. Users see what the report displays	At data warehouse level. Users see all data they have access to

It is certainly possible to implement some tricks or workarounds in order to achieve some capabilities such as styling in PerformancePoint using CSS, but those were the general aspects of the two tools. It should give a good idea of the differences.