Microsoft FRx Professional Delivers Business Value

Master your financial reporting process with Microsoft® Business Solutions for Analytics–FRx Professional. High performance capabilities give you comprehensive, highly customizable financial and management reports that are easy to create, distribute, and use.

Build custom, presentation-quality reports

Improve information analysis

Export Microsoft FRx reports to Microsoft Office Excel PivotTable®/PivotChart® formats, to enhance understanding of key business information.

Reduce administrative work

Automate report processing and distribution capabilities to reduce the time employees spend on administrative work, freeing them to analyze information and make informed, strategic decisions.

Simplify the report building process

Benefit from the familiar spreadsheet look and feel and allow anyone with the appropriate privileges — from the CEO to the marketing analyst — to create customized reports quickly and easily.

Maintain reports seamlessly

Eliminate time-consuming processes for updating and maintaining reports through tight integration with Microsoft Business Solutions–Great Plains®.

Enhance corporate communications

Use multiple report formats and distribution techniques to ensure the right financial information is being delivered to the right people.

Access reports securely

Establish custom security settings to help ensure only users who have secure access rights access information.

Microsoft FRx Professional Reporting Delivers Actionable Information

Powerful Analysis Features

View and manage financial information from all angles to gain a complete, detailed understanding of any business situation. Powerful analysis capabilities for Microsoft FRx Professional include the ability to:

• Consolidate information from multiple companies and data sources.
• Create reports that compare periods and then set the current base month, quarter, or other financial period at the time you run the report.
• Create reporting relationships that need not exist in your chart of accounts, allowing you to change reporting structures without affecting data entry processes.
• Seamlessly translate currency across multiple accounting systems—including functionality for calculating monthly and annual average and historical rates—and quickly set up currency exchange rate tables with information pulled from the general ledger.

Rapid Report Design and Delivery Processes

Create sophisticated reports easily and intuitively, and define distribution methods for reports to efficiently and effectively address your organization’s business needs. Microsoft FRx Professional functionality includes:

• A graphical user interface that helps you determine the description and source of data, as well as any calculations and totals in your report.
• Tight integration across Microsoft Great Plains to facilitate updates and maintenance and reduce the chance of errors.
• Customizable and automated processes that let you select when and how each report should be generated and distributed.
• The FRx Report Server, which automates the production and distribution of reports in a scalable, high-speed reporting environment. Microsoft® Business Solutions–Great Plains®

Microsoft FRx Professional -- Microsoft FRx Report Manager

Improve information visibility and easily share the right information with the right people. Available as an add-on to Microsoft FRx Professional, the FRx Report Manager empowers you to:

• Create personalized report books that organize multiple document types in a single file—including Microsoft FRx reports, Microsoft Office documents, Crystal Reports, and links to sites and other documents.
• Consolidate critical business information into a single file for quick, easy distribution to executives and managers.
• Select from multiple delivery methods to share report books, including e-mail, print, or online posting.

Microsoft FRx Professional -- FRx Forecaster

Forecaster Delivers Lightning Fast Budgeting

To be truly effective, your budgeting process needs to be lightning fast, easy and collaborative. Forecaster leverages the power of the Web to give you dynamic control over budgeting in a fully integrated environment. Armed with Forecaster, you can use the Web to:

• Collaborate with managers in the next office or around the world.
• Compare budgets to actuals in real time.
• Gain control over expenses by integrating your budget information with your Microsoft Business Solutions systems.

Forecaster enables you to automate operational expense, personnel, capital and revenue planning, so you can roll out plans in less time, with unprecedented accuracy. Managers can participate directly in the budgeting process from anywhere over the Internet, your corporate intranet or LAN. And, Forecaster's spreadsheet-like approach to budgeting is intuitive and easy-to-learn, so your staff will be inputting data and producing budgets with minimal training.

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