Adhoc Reporting in SSRS

Hello Everyone,
I have recently moved from the world of Oracle+Informatica+Cognos to Microsoft BI, and trying to create the same environment,have been doing trainings to learn everything about the Microsoft stack and create a BI/DWH system from the ground up. So
far we have created the Star Schema model and the next planned step is to create Self Service reporting capabilities as it is provided in Cognos Framework Manager + Query Studio suite. Now this is where I need help from experts who have designed any such
capabilities before.How do we create the metadata model and publish it to end users to empower them.SSRS and Report builder seem to be just static copies of DWH,and is not flexible enough to accomodate all of Star Schema without creating a huge dataset which
is an unnecessary burden on processing.
Any inputs are appreciated.
Thanks,
Shailendra

Since you say Self Service reporting capabilities I think what you're looking at is tools like PowerPivot, Powerview, Power BI etc which are the self service BI options available to you from Microsoft.
Powerpivot, Powerview etc provides you ability to connect to variety of datasources like SQL database, SSAS cubes, SSRS reports,,Excel etc. You need to connect to required data source (in your case DWH in star schema) and pull the required tables within
Powerpivot. Then you have the ability of adding relationships within Powerpivot between the various tables pulled. Once that is done your model is ready.
Then you can use design options in powerpivot to add pivot tables,charts etc to show the data from model. You'll get entire tables along with columns from which you can select required columns onto tables/charts in pivot sheet. You may also add calculated
columns if you want and use it for your reports.
You can also refer this
http://www.databasejournal.com/sqletc/understanding-microsoft-power-bi-self-service-solutions.html
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