XBRL

Apr.

29

2010

Management Reporter Overview

by Jan Harrigan CPA

This is a quick high level overview of Management Reporter, the next-generation FRx replacement.

Caveat: This product is not available for ERPs other than Dynamics GP, SL, AX and NAV.

  • 64 bit—native
  • Back end completely rewritten—brand new .NET and C# code base replaces FRx’s VB6
  • SQL Server instead of Access—way more stable
  • Improved multi-user capabilities
  • Report Library—centralized storage used to view reports and group reports into folders
  • Report Viewer—replaces FRx’s Drill Down Viewer
  • Undo/Redo—everybody is thrilled with this one
  • Formatting and Images—can add logos, and formatting is done from familiar toolbars
  • Column Page Breaks—everybody is thrilled with this one too
  • XBRL—tag in the rows and generate the XBRL instance document

I am really excited about this product. Safe to say it’s been a long time coming.

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Mar.

14

2009

The Future of FRx and Management Reporter (for Dynamics GLs)

by Jan Harrigan CPA

I’ve been in New Orleans this week attending Convergence—almost didn’t go home—had to tear myself away from the food and drink and music and dance and people and history and architecture and fun, but that’s another story in itself.

But here’s what I learned about FRx’s future.

First things first: if your GL is not Microsoft Dynamics GP, SL, AX or NAV, non of this post applies. I’ll do a separate post on that. Hint: don’t think you’re going to like it.

Bottom line, FRx is being replaced by Management Reporter (aka MR). MR is the next generation FRx—it looks and feels similar but runs on a better database (SQL Server instead of Access) and is written in a better language. Just a much stronger product all around even though it doesn’t yet have all the functionality of FRx.

Here’s the timeline. [click to continue…]

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More on FRx and XBRL

May 2, 2008

FRx and XBRL—probably not going to work too well. Check out Mark Polino’s recent DynamicAccounting post on XBRL, FRx & PerformancePoint: “…it’s increasingly likely that XBRL (the xml based financial statement/reporting language) is going to be mandated by the SEC…” I heard essentially the same thing at Convergence in March. Here’s what I found out [...]

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FRx Future

March 25, 2008

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 [...]

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