March 2008

Mar.

25

2008

FRx vs. Management Reporter: Got Functionality?

by Jan Harrigan CPA

If you’re entertaining the idea of migrating from FRx to Management Reporter, here’s a laundry list of functionality, both what’s new and what’s missing.

Management Reporter New Features:
Currently GL module only, but eventual reporting beyond gl data
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Undo redo (huge applause for this one!) [click to continue…]

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Mar.

25

2008

Migration from FRx to Management Reporter

by Jan Harrigan CPA

If you want to migrate reports from FRx to Management Reporter, a migration tool exists today.

It doesn’t bring over everything, but then you wouldn’t really expect it to. I have lists at the bottom of this post of what comes over and what doesn’t. First, though, a couple of thoughts.

I heard lots of comments about ‘easy to migrate’. I didn’t really buy that. You should know that because Management Reporter is ‘dimension aware’, it could be a good bit of work to migrate over unless you’re on AX (which is also dimension aware). You will have to reselect accounts. It’s on my list to investigate. [click to continue…]

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Mar.

25

2008

FRx Replacement: Management Reporter

by Jan Harrigan CPA

FRx’s replacement is called Management Reporter.

It is a part of the PerformancePoint Server (PPS), Microsoft’s player in the business intelligence (BI) space. Think ProClarity if you will.

I won’t really touch on PPS in this space other than to say that it works with operational data and financial data. It’s also pretty pricey for the midmarket. There’s an excellent recap at Mark Polino’s DynamicAccounting post on PerformancePoint.

Anyway, back to Management Reporter. The word is that it will be available as a standalone module, meaning you won’t be forced to purchase the entire PerformancePoint Server suite of products. Today, however, you must buy PerformancePoint to get Management Reporter. [click to continue…]

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Mar.

25

2008

FRx Future

by Jan Harrigan CPA

The initial news of FRx replacement by Management Reporter

Week before last, I attended Convergence, Microsoft Business Solution’s end user conference. Bottom line, I don’t have a ton of new information that I haven’t already conveyed in previous posts, but here’s what I do have.

As you may already know, FRx is being replaced by Management Reporter (a part of PerformancePoint Server). More on Management Reporter in a separate post.

So FRx as you know it now, version 6.7, is the final product. I’m getting conflicting information on this, but it sounds like there will be no more enhancements. [click to continue…]

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Mar.

11

2008

Using FRx with Dynamics GP Analytical Accounting

by Jan Harrigan CPA

Lately I’ve had more and more inquiries on using FRx with Dynamics GP Analytical Accounting.

Seems it’s being used more and more since its introduction a few years ago. While most of my posts apply to all of FRx’s ERPs, today’s post will apply only to GP, although the basic principles are exactly the same for other dimension-aware ERPs such as Dynamics AX and Dynamics NAV.

So this will be a brief (sort of) explanation of how to set up FRx to take advantage of the extra information tracked by dimensions. In essence, Analytical Accounting adds what are called ‘Dimensions’ to your existing account structure to enable you to track additional information. For instance, programs, events, and expense type. This post presumes that you have dimensions already set up in GP. [click to continue…]

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