Management Reporter: Death to &&&-####-????

First some comments on what I have seen with Management Report which is slated to replace FRx. I was involved in the initial TAP testing for Management Reporter. The program was first designed to be used on Axapta and was only good for cubes. The Wizards and overall UI for the product were much improved to include being SQL based and having folders. The performance and loading of cube data left much to be desired and it was struggle to deploy. We deployed MR to one client and had to replace it with other reporting tools. MR V1 is mostly dead from what I understand.
Last Convergence in New Orleans the MBS BI team announced a new plan for Management Reporter and a roadmap to the future. One of the biggest changes is the concept of moving most of MBS BI back to MBS. Redmond has been involved the past few years with SSRS and PPS and now the focus is back to MBS BI with focus on ERP reporting. I thought the MBS BI team did a great job on the roadmap and demoing MR V2. MR V2 will be out next year and I saw some nice features which should be an improvement from FRx.
1. System is based in SQL not Access. The old FRx was based in Access and there is a clear advantage going to MS SQL. One being the old g32 files are gone and hopefully all the reindexing issues that occurred in FRx.
2. There is an Organization File Structure so that users can store reports by organization.
3. The old hook and crook account structure will be gone. This was a report killer and a major reason why FRx struggled with Axapta.
4. DrillDown is going to change. The old DrillDown viewer which was a repository is no more and I am sure MR will look to a more modern Drill Down concept.
Most of the other features will stay the same. It will be interesting to see how this product rolls out to the MBS nation and changes that will occur in Reporting.