Reporting Central and Reconciliation

You all know that I'm a big fan of reconciling subledgers to GL on a daily basis. The folks at Reporting Central showed me their new balancing reports designed to do just that. The cool thing about the reports is that they show why the two don't balance and what transactions cause the out of balance situation.

For example, on inventory balancing, there might be a section labeled GL or Inventory Subledger posted in wrong period or an indicator that the wrong account account was used along with specific transactions in each section. These go way beyond the AR and AP balancing functionality built into Dynamics GP and include reconciliations for AP, AR, Accrued Purchases, COGS, Sales and Inventory.

The reports are rended in Crystal Reports or SSRS making them easy to schedule and run.

It's time to stop whining that you can't balance and get control of your accounting department again. When you know what is causing out of balance issues you can step up and take action to prevent those issues from occurring.

Developing for Dynamics GP is Full of New Stuff

Developing for Dynamics GP is full of new stuff today including Using VBA with Report Writer, Using ADO with VBA with Report Writer, Developer Documentation for Microsoft Dynamics GP and Microsoft's new Statement of Direction for Microsoft Dynamics GP.

Phew! I tired just looking at all of these posts! Great job David!

The Performance Point March Continues

In case you've missed it (the posting dates are a little funny on the release) Microsoft has announced that there will be no new sales of Enterprise Reporting starting on August 1 of 2008. Existing customers can purchase the product through January 1, 2010.

Also, existing ER customers (similar to existing Proclarity customers) who are current on their enhancement plans can migrate to Performance Point at no additional cost.

This is a little disconnect here. Performance Point is a nice 1.0 product but we know from FRxBuzz that there are lots of holes in it (the lack of XBRL being a big one). Performance Point 2.0 has been delayed to correspond with the Office release schedule. I hope MS doesn't screw up the release timing on this one and I hope that Perf Point 2.0 fulfills everyone's expectations. Otherwise this has the potential to get messy.