Financial Planning and Reporting Roadmap

Well I just attended the Financial Planning and Reporting roadmap here at Convergence. They were talking about Management Reporter which will by the Dynamics CPM (Corporate Performance Management) solution. The problem is we will not get Management Reporter until 2010 with GP 11. When we do get Management Reporter it will only replace FRx 6.7. We will still need to use Forecaster or Enterprise Reporter for budgeting.

The plan is for Management Reporter 3.0 to offer budgeting but that will not be until 2012 and advanced budgeting and consolidation will not come until 2014.

So it looks like we still need keep moving forward with Forecaster for the next few years.

Convergence Day 1

Convergence is under way. The day started with a keynote presentation by Kirill Tatarinov. He had many product demos and all of our customers that attended really seemed to like it.

From there we went to General Sessions. Most of us were in the Dynamics GP sessions. There were a lot of demos. They showed Extender, Action Panes, Web Services, Vendor Portal and 3 views into GP11. It was great to see the Microsoft Word forms for GP11.

Announcements from GP General Session include:
Service Pack 4 for GP 10 will ship in July 2009
GP 11 is targeted for May 2010.

Extender is changing and will allow you to create base forms but the price goes up on August 1, 2009. New CRM adapter in Q3 2009.

They also talked about Management Reporter replacing FRx in Version 11. It will be an option not a requirement. They also showed a lot of metrics and graphs. It was all shown in Sharepoint.

Overall a very good morning. Stay tuned for more