With the release of Management Reporter, Microsoft has updated its codebase from the one previously used for FRx Financial Reporting. Previous users of FRx will find the logic of Management Reporter very similar to FRx with the new look and feel of other Microsoft applications such as Outlook, Excel, and Word. An understanding of this new architecture is important, as this can drive things such as, hardware and system requirements for the Management Reporter environment.
Management Reporter is built with 64-bit environments in mind and does indeed fully support these environments. The codebase 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 the Microsoft Access database that FRx used.