Management Reporter CU6 released with report group improvements, 12 new languages, 14 new reports

The Microsoft Dynamics CPM (Corporate Performance Management) team has officially released the latest version of Management Reporter, called CU6.

One of the new features in Management Reporter CU6 is the ability for users to easily view all reports in a report group, according to the team. The new features include report design, report distribution and report viewing.

The Management Reporter CU6 features include:

• Ability to generate a single report link for a report group created in Management Reporter Report Designer and open all reports from a single page in the web viewer
• Option to define the company, report date and report output locations for all reports assigned to a report group
• Fourteen new default reports that will be loaded for new Microsoft Dynamics AX and Microsoft Dynamics GP customers using Management Reporter
  • Existing customers also can easily import these default reports
• New vendor, customer and audit attributes added for Dynamics AX
• Support for transaction descriptions that are longer than 100 characters
• Support for bi-directional text in Management Reporter Report Designer and Web Viewer
• Translation for 12 additional languages, including Swedish,  Norwegian, Polish, Czech, Finnish, Thai, Hungarian, Lithuanian, Latvian, Estonian, Icelandic and Arabic

This is the final release for the Microsoft Dynamics SL INTFx (legacy) data providers. Microsoft Dynamics SL customers should make plans to transition to the Data Mart provider, according to the CPM team.

The CU6 release has also generated some questions.

"Our VAR put us on the legacy provider stating that data mart could not do multi-currency conversions," one person said. "I had ...