What's new in Management Reporter 2012?
We've been posting videos of the new features in Management Reporter 2012 for a while now, and you can find them on this blog. But, for those of you looking for a simple list of all the new functionality, here it is.
Report Design Flexibility
- Quickly identify accounts/dimensions that have been omitted from report building blocks
- Format headers for rolling forecasts
- Easily save and reuse dimension combinations when designing reports
- Control how dimension descriptions are formatted and displayed
Financial Report Collaboration
- Usability enhancements to make Report Groups more discoverable by providing access from the navigation pane
- Schedule reports to generate on a periodic basis
- Publish to a read-only (.XPS) report format
- Publish reports to multiple Microsoft SharePoint® or any network location
- Publish a personalized Microsoft Excel® (.xlsx) file
- Personalized and secured view of data for all output types
- E-mail reports via SharePoint alerts
- E-mail a link to a report from within the Report Viewer
Interactive Report Viewing
- Quickly create a chart based upon selected report rows and columns
- Locate key features in Report Viewer with an enhanced toolbar
- Jump to key areas of the report for fast analysis
- Find a key value in a report, such as an account value or description
- Easily page within a report
- Attach comments to important rows in a report version
- Copy comments from one version of a report to another
- Collaborate on a report by providing a link to the current report and selected row when launching an instant messenger client from within a report
Deeper Dynamics ERP integration
- Trickle data from Microsoft Dynamics AX and Microsoft Dynamics NAV into Management Reporter data mart for increased performance
- Create financial reports based upon data in Microsoft Dynamics NAV General Ledger (only for customers replacing Microsoft FRx)
- Drill from account and budget balances on a report to related information in Microsoft Dynamics ERP
- Display or filter on properties of dimensions and transactions to design more precise financial reports.
- Automatically integrate company information from your Microsoft Dynamics ERP
- Report on Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 budget reservations (pre-encumbrances/encumbrances) based upon budget funds available calculation as defined in budget control configuration
- Manage all users (both Microsoft Dynamics AX and Management Reporter) from within Microsoft Dynamics AX
- Dynamically align reporting trees with Microsoft Dynamics AX organizational hierarchies
- Choose whether to include or exclude budget submodels when using Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 budgets