Another problem with 'Retreat' is that existing clients have been unable to purchase new FRx licenses for some time (i.e more than a few years); and I believe that new clients are not shipped FRx keys. Also, along with the cost of 'Replacing' comes more choice, as there are many alternatives and organizations need to review their needs and requirements carefully. My two cents. Les

I think the key to this is also the comment with replace that the options are broader. Most of our sites choosing BI360 do so because the reporting is nicer, it is Excel based, it reports on sub-ledgers and you can link in all the pretty graphics etc that you want. You can then step your way up to full data warehouse reporting from multiple systems if and when you choose. The budgeting feature is definitely also popular. I think the biggest problem with MR (aside from all the functionality ones), is that is simply does what FRx did (albeit, nowhere near as well) and that is straight GL reporting. Most businesses - even small ones - want more than that.

We're managing about 50 MR installs right now, and MR "magically" doubling total lines on an income statement and balance sheet is about to drive me bonkers. Of course, completely rebuilding the datamart fixes it, but I need a way to be able to figure out when it's happening BEFORE the customer sees it.

We've most recently (within the last year) migrated over from Accpac to AX. Financial reporting wise we migrated from what was once known as Lex2000 and then Cognos Finance. It was not a well known program in the Cognos suite of applications and product support ended in 2010. Throughout the years though Cognos Finance continued to chug along with very few issues and the reporting was simple, fast, and effective. Even at the time it came out in the 90's, they had an Excel interface capability that would return values in seconds. Really an amazing technology at the time. Anyway, as we were replacing our ERP we would be moving our financial reporting to another platform and Management Reporter we were told was the answer. From the time we saw it until the time we decided it would not be the answer, we were extremely unimpressed with the lack of functionality. Not that we had ultra-complex reports but we did include a key KPI of our industry as one of the columns in the report but the thing that made this a challenge was the fact the denominator in this KPI changed depending on what could essentially be termed our product line. Products were intermingled throughout the report meaning the denominator on row 99 might be different than on row 100 and then again different on row 101. This was far from the only issue for us but one of the biggest challenges from a support perspective nonetheless. We instead decided to use the SSAS cubes that come with AX. While the contents in the cube were quite expansive (over 100+ dimensions) we were able to hone in on what we were looking for. We had to make some changes dimensional additions to the cube to accommodate our financial reporting needs but we are now using that in conjunction with Excel. Far from the desired solution but a temporary solution nonetheless until we could come up with a better one. We're still in search of a better solution at this time but am in the process of pursuing a potential solution using MDS (Master Data Services) with one or more of the Power BI products from Microsoft (Power BI, Power Query, Power Pivot). In my honest opinion, MR rates about a 4 out of 10 - tops.

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Thanks - I'll check it out.

What are the other options out there for GP?

Anyone have a link to the magic fix for FRx. I have run into this issue before and am wondering what DLL you replace to keep FRx running on newer operating systems. It seems that as soon as you run the install for GP 2015 on a workstation then it breaks FRx. thanks