Microsoft is positioning Management Reporter, a financial reporting tool, to replace FRx. This launch marks a key milestone in delivering Microsoft’s performance management vision. Management Reporter retains many elements of the popular FRx product and is built on a completely updated architecture, providing an unprecedented level of scalability and reliability.

1. Management Reporter
The Future of Financial Reporting

2. Agenda
 Introduction
 Management Reporter Overview
 Creating and Running Reports
 Viewing Reports
 For FRx Users
 System Requirements
 Q&A
 Next Month

3. Management Reporter Overview
What is Management Reporter?
Management Reporter is a real-time financial
reporting application designed to empower
information workers to quickly and easily create,
generate, secure, and publish financial statements,
such as Profit and Loss (P&L) statements, balance
sheets, and cash flow reports.

4. Management Reporter Overview
 Released this year with GP 2010
 Only works with GP 2010 and beyond
 Current version is 2.x

5. Management Reporter Overview
 Key Features
 Familiar User Interface
 Enhanced Presentation Capabilities
 Powerful Analysis Capabilities
 Strong Data and Application Integrity

6. Creating and Running Reports
 Rows
 Columns
 Trees
 Report Definitions

7. Viewing Reports
 Report Library

8. For FRx Users
 Changes
 New code base and architecture with 64-bit
support
 Enhanced stability
 Improved performance
 SQL Server
 Improved multi-user environment
 Active Directory

9. For FRx Users
 Changes
 Report Library
 Report Viewer
 Undo
 Dimension Flexibility
 Formatting
 Organization
 XBRL

10. For FRx Users
 Changes
 Effective Dates
 Subtotal and/or Filter
 Include Detail for Non-Printing Rows
 Side-by-Side Reports
 E-mail Distribution
 FRx WebPort
 Report Manager

11. For FRx Users
 Changes
 Send to Printer
 Row Linking
 Multicurrency
 Forecaster
 Format as Excel Outline
 Export Formulas to Excel
 Export to OLAP Cube

12. For FRx Users
 Support Lifecycles
 FRx
• Management Reporter 3
• 2012
 Forecaster
• Management Reporter 4
• 2014
 Enterprise Reporting
• Management Reporter 4
• 2014

13. System Requirements
 Management Reporter has more server-
intensive requirements than FRx

14. Component Minimum Recommended Notes
All Microsoft .NET Framework 4.0 Same as minimum Both items can be downloaded
Windows Installer 4.5 from Microsoft Downloads
Client 1.0 GHz processor or higher (x86)/1.4 GHz processor or higher Dual core or higher processor
(x64) 500 MB available hard disk space
500 MB available hard drive space 2 GB RAM or higher
512 MB or higher RAM Windows 7 Professional Edition
Windows XP Professional with SP2 or later or Windows Server
2003 Standard Edition or later
Application Server 2.4 GHz or higher processor Dual Core or higher processor
1 GB available hard disk space 1 GB available hard disk space
2 GB RAM or higher 4 GB RAM or higher
Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition or later Windows Server 2008 Standard Edition or later
Internet Information Services 6.0 Internet Information Services 7.0
WCF HTTP Activation WCF HTTP Activation
ASP .NET ASP .NET
Process Server 2.4 GHz or higher processor Dual core or higher processor The Microsoft Access Database
1 GB available hard disk space 1 GB available hard disk space Engine redistributable is required
2 GB RAM or higher 4 GB RAM or higher for the process to read report data
Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition or later Windows Server 2008 Standard Edition or later from Excel workbooks
Microsoft Access Database Engine 2010 Redistributable Microsoft Access Database Engine 2010
Redistributable
Database Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Express Edition or later Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Standard Edition or Database max size 4 GB on SQL
later Server Express editions
Case insensitive database collation
Management Reporter 1.0 GHz processor or higher (x86)/1.4 GHz processor or higher Dual core or higher processor The Microsoft Access Database
Migration Wizard (x64) 500 MB available hard disk space Engine redistributable is required
500 MB available hard drive space 2 GB RAM or higher for the Migration Wizard to read
512 MB or higher RAM Windows 7 Professional Edition data from FRx 6.7 databases.
Windows XP Professional with SP2 or later or Windows Server Microsoft Access Database Engine 2010
2003 Standard Edition or later Redistributable
Microsoft Access Database Engine 2010 Redistributable

15. For more information:
www.bkdtechnologies.com/attend

16. Contact Information
Jeffrey Paulette
417.865.8701
jpaulette@bkd.com