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I realize this one is a really obscure topic, but I thought it was important to bring it to light. Microsoft Office PerformancePoint Server  was an actual thing, it existed, and to the surprise of everyone reading this and not in the channel long enough to remember, Dynamics GP had a connector to it. Summary Microsoft Office PerformancePoint Server was a business intelligence software product released in 2007 by Microsoft. It was discontinued in 2009, then resurfaced with its dashboard, scorecard, and analytics capabilities incorporated into SharePoint Server 2010 - the feature was known as PerformancePoint Services in SharePoint Server 2013. PerformancePoint Server also provided a planning and budgeting component directly integrated with Excel. However, by 2009, the actual Microsoft Dynamics GP connector for PerformancePoint was also discontinued. Back in 2008, I wrote a stub article about it for an article published by Alan Whitehouse . You can read more ab...

The Dynamics Corporate Performance Management team over at Microsoft has been releasing information about specific features in Management Reporter 2012 for the past 2 weeks. I hope you are enjoying these just as much as I am. In my previous article  I provided some links to the first 6 articles released. Here is a new set of links with more of the cool Management Reporter 2012 features: Drill to Dynamics GP Missing Account Analysis Financial Reporting Data Mart Lync Integration Drill to Dynamics AX 2012 Install Experience Report Scheduling Dimension Sets This new set of features should get you excited about the product and its capabilities. Can't wait to see the demo at Microsoft Dynamics Convergence 2012. Until next post! MG.- Mariano Gomez, MVP IntellPartners, LLC http://www.IntellPartners.com/

Management Reporter 2012 Release Themes Most of you know me to be a fairly technical guy, so it must be quite an event when I get excited about a financial reporting product. My excitement stems from a couple of things I saw in an MVP Product Group Interaction session yesterday with the Dynamics Corporate Performance Management team: Management Reporter 2012 is simply THE BEST darn financial reporting product produced to date by Microsoft. This release revolves around 4 core themes: Interactive Report Viewing, Deeper Dynamics ERP Integration, Report Collaboration, and Design Flexibility. I highlighted a few of the capabilities in my March 8, 2011 Corporate Performance Management Roadmap  article. Among the things I can say for now, and from a technical perspective, this release removes its dependency on Internet Information Services (IIS), allowing it to run in native mode. If you are familiar with SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services, you can now begin to imagine ...

For those of you who were wondering what's happening with Corporate Performance Management and Management Reporter , and the overall product roadmap, you would like to know that CPM has not gone unnoticed by Microsoft and plays a vital role in the overall Dynamics ERP direction. Corporate Performance Management Roadmap Some highlights of this direction include integration with AX, SL, and NAV to be delivered by the 2H of CY2011. If you have overseas operations and are in need for consolidated financials, you will also be glad to know that Management Reporter will be supporting currency translation from within Microsoft Dynamics GP. This is a shift from what FRx currently does with the FRx Currency Translator, which is built within FRx. Management Reporter will also gain the ability to drill back into Dynamics GP -- clap here! -- a la FRx, with the added bonus of richer report viewing - translation: really cool looking reports! - and perhaps the most impressive of it all, in...

"2010 will be a milestone year for Microsoft Dynamics GP..." Microsoft Dynamics GP has a new Nostradamus in MVP Mark Polino . Mark looks into his crystal ball and predicts the fortune of Microsoft Dynamics GP 11, BI, Management Reporter and FRx, and the Microsoft Dynamics GP Community as a whole in his latest MSDynamicsWorld article ... heck, the guy even talks politics! Don't miss out on this great article. Until next post! MG.- Mariano Gomez, MVP Maximum Global Business, LLC http://www.maximumglobalbusiness.com/

Strategies to gear up for the future My new article is out on MSDynamicsWorld.com! This article focuses on the coming shifts in priorities inside IT departments running Microsoft Dynamics GP. The article is based on some of the strategic initiatives coming out of Redmond and carried around to customers and partners over the last few months. You can read the full article here . Until next post! MG.- Mariano Gomez, MIS, MCP Maximum Global Business, LLC http://www.maximumglobalbusiness.com

For those of you who did not attend Convergence 2009 and have been asking about release dates of service packs and new versions of Dynamics GP, the following shows the anticipated product roadmap . Keep in mind that release dates and product features may change on a dime and by no means can be considered absolute Microsoft commitments. One things is very sure: Microsoft Dynamics GP 10.0 Service Pack 4 is just right around the corner and with it comes a revamped Extender product. For those of you wondering about the feature of the customization tools, David Musgrave has some reflections on that subject. Click here to read what he has to say. Plus I have the following to add: if you are a Microsoft Dexterity developer or a Visual Basic for Applications guy, Extender is still not the panacea for complex business requirements. Yes, you will be able to add new windows, yes you will have the ability to create transaction workflows . However, there is only so much Extender can do as ...

I usually don't talk much about product strategy, because it tends to vary all too often, and what is said today, may not necessarily be what will be delivered tomorrow. However, and I as mentioned yesterday in the ad campaign post , I went to a rehashed sales seminar with excerpts from Convergence 2009 in New Orleans, where the roadmap for FRx and Enterprised Reporter was presented. Among other things, Management Reporter will become the de facto financial reporting tool built on the ever expanding Business Intelligence and MOSS platforms, and the overall Corporate Performance Management strategy. However, Management Reporting is undergoing some major development to incorporate support for Multicurrency -- currently supported by FRx and Enterprise Reporting. While Dynamics GP "V11" will offer support for both FRx and Management Reporter, new customers will only be shipped Management Reporter (MR V2), but can continue using the Forecaster product. Dynamics GP "V1...