Microsoft Performance Management Solutions

Direct or FDM 7.0 data warehouse? That is the question.

You may fall into one of the following Microsoft FRx partner profiles: an existing ERP partner of Microsoft FRx, a new prospective ERP partner, or a customer who (instead of FRx) desires to use PerformancePoint Server and Management Reporter for your enterprise reporting needs.

If you fit one of these profiles and are considering PerformancePoint Server / Management Reporter, you may be asking yourself the question, “Is it right for me to develop a data provider integration to PerformancePoint Server and Management Reporter?”

At Merit Solutions, based on our findings and integration development experience with PerformancePoint Server and Management Reporter, there appear to be three different types of consumers pursuing answers to this question. 

• Current FRx partners with an FDM 7.0 (Financial Data Mart) integration to FRx. 

• Current FRx partners with a direct integration between their system and FRx. 

• ERP software companies or their customers who were not FRx partners but need a management reporting solution.

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Microsoft Dynamics AX 2009 Compliance Center Demo

View a short demo of the new Compliance Center within Microsoft Dynamics AX 2009. Learn how to document internal processes, risks, and associated controls.

Also learn how to:

1. Set up new documentation procedures.

2. Associate documentation with a process to describe the controls put into place in the business application.

3. Document an associated control with Vendor Disbursement.

Microsoft Dynamics AX 2009 supports compliance enforcement by deploying an out-of-the-box Compliance Center with Windows SharePoint Services. The Compliance Center simplifies compliance efforts and helps keep business information secure through a comprehensive set of tools to manage and control electronic content. The internal control environment helps facilitate corporate governance over business process content, internal control documentation, audit information, and reporting and provides a graphical overview of the control effectiveness and document status.

Watch the Microsoft Dynamics AX 2009 Compliance Demo now.

Tip and Trick of the Month: Shared Custom Reports in GP 10.0

If you have a centralized Custom Reports dictionary (reports.dic) in a shared directory on a server and custom reports are not printing for a user, you may want to check the following:

1. Check to make sure the path to the custom report dictionary on the server is correct.  Do this by going to Microsoft Dynamics GP>Tools>Setup>System>Edit Launch File.  Click on Product ID Microsoft Dynamics GP.  Under Dictionary Locations Reports check the path to the centralized reports dictionary.

   1. Click on the folder icon to browse to the folder location and report. This will do two things.  First, it confirms that you have access to that folder.  Second, it will correctly set the path parameters.  It is common when Manually setting up the path in the Dynamics.set file to use incorrect slash designators (“/” instead of “\”) in the path name.

2. Another common issue when upgrading from a previous version to version 10….Check the user security settings.  Version 10 security is “Pessimistic” in that security to functions is not granted and needs to be specifically assigned. (In prior versions security was “Optimistic” meaning that access to functions were granted and had to be specifically removed).  It is common that security is not set up for the user correctly and they will still print GP standard reports because they do not have security to the custom report.