The cat’s out of the bag: sounds like FRx will be around for a while. One can only hope!
Per Doug Henschen in an article for Network Computing yesterday “…the Microsoft Dynamics ERP and applications unit…will continue to develop its Forecaster and FRx products for forecasting, budgeting and financial reporting.” Here’s a link to the full article which contains a good bit of information regarding the recent announcement on the ‘reshuffling’ with PerformancePoint Server.
So that it seems that FRx and Forecaster and Management Reporter are returning to the Dynamics team. For the last year or so they’ve been with the Office team.
Much more information to come in the March 2009 timeframe, but I’ll post what I hear in the meantime. What great news!
Last Friday, Microsoft announced that in the summer of 2009, the PerformancePoint Server (PPS) brand will cease to exist. Ruh-Roh.
The significance of this is that PPS is the application that houses Management Reporter which is Microsoft’s replacement for FRx.
So if PPS is being discontinued, what happens with Management Reporter? Is FRx still alive? While I don’t know with certainty, I have some suspicions and I hope to hear more news this week.
And there should be a lot more news in the March 2009 timeframe. Stay tuned.
They keep it interesting, don’t they!
The last day for early registration for Convergence is rapidly approaching.
Convergence is Microsoft’s conference for end users of its 4 ERPs (GP, SL, AX, and NAV). Anyway, until midnight pacific time on January 14th, the early registration fee is $1,195. After that, it goes up to $1,495. (Update on 1-14-09: the discount offer has been extended to January 21, 2009.)
(Update on 2/5/09: For Registration Alert Members, Microsoft is extending the Early Registration rate up until the event.)
It’s in New Orleans this year. New Orleans just happens to be one of my favorite places on earth, and I’ve been many many times, so I thought I’d share a couple of my favorite French Quarter haunts. [click to continue…]
