I’m just back from Convergence and I want to share the latest roadmap for Management Reporter.
May 2010
- Management Reporter version 2 ships in May 2010
- Integrates only with GP
- All new GP 2010 customers receive MR
- Existing customers who upgrade to GP 2010 have the opportunity to stay with FRx or to migrate to MR
Feature Pack 1—planned for 2nd Half Calendar Year 2010
- Integrations to AX and SL
- Currency translation in GP (then MR will pull already translated currency)
- Integration to report on Forecaster data
Feature Pack 2—planned for 1st Half Calendar Year 2011
- Bi-directional text (right to left)
- Report scheduling
- Interactive report viewer
- Drill to Dynamics
Management Reporter 2012
- Adds light budgeting
- Further enhancements
Management Reporter 2012+
- Additional financial reporting, budgeting & forecasting
- NAV integration
Thanks for the info. This question seems obvious but… when you say it only integrates with GP, I assume that means it does not work with epicor 7.4?
Actually, it’s not obvious at all! It’s a little known fact that a few epicor clients do have MR installed. (Sorry, I have no idea which versions of epicor.) My understanding is that this handful have version 1 of management reporter, and that it will never go past v1, so it’s a dead end. And they’ll be looking for a replacement like everyone else.
Methinks these were early adopters of Epicor v7.4 – we are trying to move to Epicor v9x and are unsure about Financial Reporting.
In my case we have 7.3 (still) and were looking for v9 but that has been stopped and will upgrade to 7.4. By default we will install the most recent FRx and service packs. We will do the 7.4 upgrade in the next 6 months or so.
Hi Jan,
Thank you for the information. Will the interactive report viewer be able to populate Business Portal 5 for Dynamics GP?
Regards,
Geoff James
Hey Geoff…just guessing—probably not anytime soon. But here’s what I’d suggest: go to connect.microsoft.com, search Management Reporter, join, then make that suggestion. The program managers definitely look at that site. Jan