With the release of Management Reporter, Microsoft has updated its code base from the one previously used for FRx Financial Reporting. Previous users of FRx will find the look and feel of Management Reporter very similar to FRx. An understanding of this new architecture is important for any user of Management Reporter, as this understanding can drive such things as system requirements.
Management Reporter was built with 64-bit environments in mind and does indeed fully support these environments. The code base has been updated to the powerful Microsoft .NET Platform and a new C# codebase that provides far superior application stability than its predecessors. In addition to the codebase, Management Reporter uses SQL Server for its data storage, which is a great leap from the days of Microsoft Access that FRx used, as well as the move to Internet Information Services (IIS) as the Report Processor. Due to these improvements, one can expect increases in performance...
