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FRx and Management Reporter Future

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Well I’m at Convergence and I want to share the latest news about FRx and Management Reporter’s future.

If you use one of the 4 Microsoft Dynamics ERPs (GP, SL, AX or NAV):

  • If you currently use FRx, you’re ok to stay on FRx 6.7 for a number of years to come, and you can move to Management Reporter on your own timeframe, or as soon as the integration is written.
  • Management Reporter will eventually replace FRx.
  • Microsoft is targeting the next releases of the ERPs for Management Reporter. So MR will probably be available with GP11 (I’m hearing summer/fall 2010) and SLx and AX6. Don’t know yet about NAV.
  • New clients purchasing the next release ERPs will have the option of Management Reporter only.

Forecaster lives on until it’s merged into Management Reporter.

If you use one of the many other ERPs that FRx integrates with, such as Sage, Epicor, Viewpoint, Expandable, and a host of others:

  • My understanding is that FRx contracts have been extended through December 2010 for sales. After that point, FRx will go on extended support until 2014. (Meaning after that, it’s toast.) (Correction on 3/14/09: I just learned that there is no support through 2014. Support ends December 2010 and that’s FRx’s End of Life.)
  • Whether Management Reporter will be an option is solely up to your ERP software publisher.

We’ll get the official announcement tomorrow morning, and there may very well be more information forthcoming. Stay tuned!

Comments

  1. Budgeter says

    Forecaster into Management Reporter eh? Wow. So it took 6 or 7 years for Management Reporter to produce a subset of FRx functionality. Does that mean I can look forward to budgeting within Management Report by 2020? Thanks for the update but this sounds pretty ridiculous given what I’ve seen in Management Reporter.

    Why isn’t Forecaster combined with the GL rather than a reporting tool that nobody uses at this point? Most budget processes I’ve seen are closely aligned with the GL and there would be far more value if MSFT could truely integrate Forecaster into there accounting packages.

  3. Jan Harrigan CPA says

    Budgeter, we’re looking at 2012 for Forecaster functionality to be rolled into MR version 3. And I think you’ll be pleased with the new direction; see later post.

    Kimberly, think of an ERP as a GL. I’ll be using GL in future posts to avoid confusion. Thanks.

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I work with zillions of companies who run Dynamics GP, AX and SL.

And lots of other consultants.

So I work with accountants who need accurate financials to help close the books. Not to mention present to the Board.

I don't sell or install MR. [How smart am I?]

FRx is Toast

FRx is toast—and I hope you're getting rid of it soon—but just in case someone still needs to learn it:

BTW, if you're on Dynamics, you can migrate to MR, but you should know there are other options. Choose what's best for you.

New to MR?

Here are 3 essentials to know before you start.

Background—back in the day, FRx was a famous midmarket report writer from a small agile company in Colorado. Then it got acquired. [Sigh]

Now it's owned by Microsoft. They rewrote it and rebranded it Management Reporter.

The two are very much alike and much of the FRx content here also applies to MR.