subject: Microsoft Frx & Forecaster - Financial Information On Your Fingertips [print this page] FRX and Forecaster are two powerful software solutions included in Microsoft's Business Intelligence suite. FRX specializes in financial report creation, distribution, and analysis processing. Forecaster, on the other hand, specializes in seamless processing of budgets as well as planning. When you combine the two, you'll be able to streamline your financial reporting and budgeting processes.
In today's business environment, wherein there's just an overwhelming amount of information, it's very difficult to make heads or tails out of the sea of data. What you need is a program that will gather all that information, process it, and deliver it in a manner that can be easily absorbed and where you can make smart decisions from.
With Microsoft FRX, you can automate the preparation and generation of financial reports that are accurate, up-to-the-minute, and comprehensive. Through its drill down functionality, users can easily get access to transaction-level detail underlying the rows in a report.
With Microsoft Forecaster, you and your team can have access to data anytime, ensuring that all concerned departments are able to participate in the budget preparation. Since the entire system is equipped with security features such as accessibility rights, usernames, and passwords, you can be sure about the reliability of your data.
To set up Microsoft Forecaster, you'll need the following specs for your database server: a dual processor with at least 800 MHz, a 1 GB RAM, at least 5 GB of hard disk space, Windows Server 2008, and MS SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 2 or Oracle 10g. The client workstations will need a 500 MHz processor, 256 MB of RAM, Windows Vista, MS Office Excel SP1, Internet Explorer 5.x, and an OLEDB Database connectivity software.
To set up Microsoft FRX, you'll need the following specs for your database server:a dual processor with at least 1 GHz, a 1 GB RAM, at least 10 GB of Hard disk space, Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition, and MS SQL Server 2000 Service Pack 3. The client workstations will need a 500 MHz processor, 256 MB of RAM, 2 GB hard disk space, Windows XP Pro SP1, Internet Explorer 6.0,and MDAC 2.8.
