You have a lot of valuable data within your business systems. But how do you get it into the hands of the right people to make the best decisions for your company? The greatest value your business solution can provide is the easy transformation of your data into meaningful, valuable information.

Microsoft Business Solutions Analytics and Reporting Great Plains® provides a broad range of flexible, customizable analytics, reporting and budgeting options to meet your company's needs - from advanced consolidation analysis to the simplest reporting requests. The applications tap into the most powerful reporting, analysis and budgeting tools available.

To learn more about the features of Great Plains® Analytics and Reporting, choose a module below:

FRx Financial Reporter

FRx Forecaster

Enterprise Reporting

ProClarity

Report Writer

Crystal Reports Professional

Multidimensional Analysis

SmartList

Report Library

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FRx Financial Reporter
FRx Financial Reporter makes it easy to gain immediate control of the financial reporting process. FRx Financial Reporter is flexible and powerful, and has a user-friendly, familiar "Windows" interface. It is designed to recognize and apply accounting concepts automatically, streamlining the financial reporting process and leaving more time for analysis.

This proven technology places financial reports at the fingertips of decision-makers throughout your enterprise, making all those who work with financial information more productive. For hundreds of thousands of business professionals around the world, FRx Financial Reporter is the "de-facto standard" in financial reporting.
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FRx Forecaster
To be truly effective, your budgeting process needs to be lightning fast, easy and collaborative. Armed with FRx 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, and gain control over expenses by integrating your budget information with your Microsoft Business Solutions systems.

FRx 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 and, FRx 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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Enterprise Reporting
Create the most efficient solution for complex consolidated reporting environments, including advanced multi-dimensional consolidations, eliminations and multi-currency capabilities. You can easily automate procedures unique to your business environments to give you complete control of consolidations, financial reporting, budgeting and analysis. Enterprise Reporting delivers solid control at the center with a high degree of flexibility to mold the reporting processes around your business practices.

By speeding up all processes, Enterprise Reporting creates more time to better understand and improve corporate-wide performance. With Enterprise Reporting, you'll finally have the proper data set you need to see your entire organization—or any part of it—the way it really is.
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ProClarity
Unlock the secrets of your financial information by taking advantage of ad-hoc query capabilities and exception and key indicator reporting through ProClarity. Using Microsoft SQL Server OLAP/Analysis Services, this analytical platform can be used to create custom solutions to meet the specific analysis needs of a wide variety of business decision makers. Individuals can view information in a multidimensional graphical format that allows effortless exploration of the multiple dimensions your data contains.

ProClarity enables decision makers to easily explore complex information, helping them visualize trends, patterns and relationships-allowing them to make better business decisions.
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Report Writer
This reporting tool is built into Microsoft Business Solutions Foundation–Great Plains® and allows you to customize existing reports and create entirely new reports using information from throughout your system. Our "what you see is what you get" report layout makes for fast, easy report generation. And you can streamline reports for each manager to show only the information that's important to him or her. You can specify the font, colors and styles on every report, allowing you to build professional looking reports.
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Crystal Reports Professional
Crystal Reports Professional provides customizable reporting in a simple environment. Whether you're a business professional in need of easy reporting or an IT professional wanting advanced reporting options, Crystal Reports Professional gives you additional flexibility, power and ease of use for all your reporting requirements. Scalable reporting designed for the Web provides multiple users with enhanced presentation-quality, faster report viewing and better overall performance. Wizard-based tools allow you to create reports in familiar applications such as Microsoft Excel and Access. Users have easy control over positioning report objects, allowing you to move, align, resize, copy and paste multiple objects. And, the addition of new alignment and ruler options is very useful in designing reports for use with printed forms.
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Multidimensional Analysis
The means to analyze financial, sales and purchase transactions using definable groups and codes, adding multiple dimensions to transactions without having to constantly create or redefine chart of account codes. Multidimensional Analysis makes it easy to analyze key information such as revenues and expenses by project, by enabling you to define unlimited projects and associate those projects with affected revenue or expense accounts. You can define any type of grouping you need, such as departments, product lines, regions or employees.

Using Multidimensional Analysis, you can categorize and track highly specific transaction activity with ease, increasing the value of your financial information without undue administrative overhead.
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SmartList
Instant access to data in your business management system is crucial to your success. Built into Microsoft Business Solutions–Great Plains, SmartList allows you to create, display and save favorite views, and even export data from your business management system to Microsoft Word or Excel. You can then use this information in Excel or Word to easily create mass letter mailings, or other analysis you require.

SmartList also enable you to do comparison reporting. For example if you want to see which items need to be ordered, you can create a search that will show you all the reorder levels, and those items that fall below this level (or any criteria you choose to initiate), giving you a single report showing all items that need to be reordered. Save this as a SmartList favorite to quickly and easily access at any time.
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Report Library
In addition to the report formats provided with these world-class reporting and analysis tools, our customers have access to dozens of report templates created by our technicians and fellow customers. This "report library" is available to registered customers 24 hours a day, 7 days a week in CustomerSource, our customer service Web site.
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