Microsoft Forecaster (formerly Microsoft FRx) offers a comprehensive suite of financial analytic applications that give you the control you need to efficiently manage your business. You can quickly implement Microsoft Forecaster software's budgeting, planning, consolidations, and financial reporting and analysis applications that work together to save you time and money throughout the year.
With the power of Microsoft Forecaster behind you, you can experience the value of rich reporting and analytics:
Empower each user with Microsoft Forecaster
Microsoft Forecaster was built to fulfill the market need for easy, intuitive and accurate financial reporting. By pulling information already set up in your general ledger, it automatically understands your fiscal periods, chart of accounts, detail transactions and various types of balances. It even recognizes positive and negative variances, and posted and unposted transactions. What's more, you can leverage the rows, columns and formulas that you may have created in Excel and import the information with all data intact, directly into Microsoft Forecaster. Using one of many customizable report templates, you can quickly get started creating relevant financial reports right away- without any help from IT resources or other technically-minded personnel
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Improve operational efficiency with Microsoft Forecaster
Microsoft Forecaster makes everyone more productive and effective. It makes it easy to provide comprehensive, timely and relevant financial reports with up-to-the minute information on a scheduled basis, or on the fly. Information consumers both inside and outside of your organization can answer their own questions about the data by "drilling down" all the way to the transaction detail level, perform necessary analysis, and make better, more informed decisions.
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Eliminate the need to print and copy with Microsoft Forecaster
The delivery method of your financial reports can be as versatile and customized as the information that they contain with Microsoft Forecaster. Choose from a variety of traditional or graphical output options, including: Excel or other spreadsheet, ASCII, FRx DrillDown ViewerTM , OLAP, or XBRL, and select a delivery method. Then post your reports to the Web or send them via email to be accessed immediately by onsite and offsite users alike, saving time and money in the process. (A connection to your general ledger isn't required!)
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With Microsoft Forecaster, enable viewers to answer their own questions
Imagine never having to answer the question "Where did this number come from?" again. With Microsoft Forecaster, users are empowered to do their own investigation by "drilling down" all the way to transaction detail level information from a single summary report. You can generate a single, comprehensive report and comfortably send it to all report reviewers. Because security rights are predefined at the "Reporting Tree" level, each recipient can access only the information that is appropriate to their viewing rights.
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Discover trends in your business with Microsoft Forecaster
With Microsoft Forecaster, you always know where your organization stands financially. You can make important, proactive decisions to address your economic highs and lows, without having to wait until the books are closed. Financials reports of all types can be called up from the Report Catalog, automatically updated with the most current information, generated using a variety of traditional or graphical output options, then distributed to decision makers over the Web or through email to facilitate the timely analysis that today's turbulent market demands.
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