Infor M3 Report Manager. Solution Consultant

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Infor M3 Report Manager

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Agenda

• Challenges

• What is Report Manager

• Features

• Key Messages

• Demo

• Pilot

• Pre-req and pricing

• Summary

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Business Challenges

• Every company has unique requirements and preferences for reporting

that often creates the need for custom reports

• Failure to have the most relevant reports prominently displayed can delay

response to business changes

• Individual departments have different reporting priorities which can require

significant customization by IT department to deliver

• Individual regions and countries have different reporting needs which is

hard for IT departments to deliver

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What is Infor M3 Report Manager (MRM)

• MRM provides an application for users to find, organize,

generate, view and archive M3 standard reports

• MRM enables administrators to easily format, extend

and manage M3 standard reports without programming

• MRM is preloaded with more than 800+ M3 reports and

the defined reports from M3 AdHoc Reporting

• MRM is available in both Smart Office and H5/Ming.le.

• MRM replaces Lawson Smart Reports

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Business Benefit

Infor M3 report Manager helps realize the hidden value of

standard Infor M3 reports, straight out of the box, and

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Feature Highlights

• Productive Use

• Generate M3 reports in pdf or Excel format

• Provide a catalog with preview, browse and search reports

and setup your favorite reports

• Includes reports defined in M3 Adhoc Reporting

• Access to previously generated reports in the MRM archive

• User defined M3 report menus

• Available both Smart Office and H5/Ming.le

• Easy to Customize and Enhance

• Structural design of reports

• Use of report themes for unique look and feel

• Add data fields in M3 standard Reports through the use of

APIs

• Themes by comp/div/groups…

• International

• Multi-language support

• Country specific reports

• Role specific reports

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User view

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Demo

• Live

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Infor M3 Report Manager

• New application to generate, view, manage, extend and distribute M3 reports directly in

Smart Office and in H5/Mingle

• Report Manager replaces Lawson Smart Reports

• Business benefits

• Realize the hidden value of

standard M3 reports

• Lower implementation costs

• Improved business agility

• Highlights

• M3 std reports and adhoc reports

• Structural design of reports

• Deliver reports in Excel or PDF

• Report catalog and archive

• Report browsing and searching

• Customize reports without

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M3 Report Manager

Pilot Project

DAT-Schaub in Denmark, F&B on M3 10.1, pilot project performed in less than 5 weeks

We have been very impressed with M3 Report Manager which is a long awaited

improvement to the M3 reporting functionality. We have run a successful pilot project

and decided to roll it out in production immediately. With MRM we efficiently get the

right reports

at our users’ desktop

with valuable data in Excel or pdf format

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Prerequisites

• MRM is supported for M3 10.1 and M3 13.x (13.1 and 13.2)

• Required components

• Microsoft SQL Server 2012 or 2008

• Infor Smart Office

• 10.1.2, 10.1.1, 10.1.0, or 10.0.5

• M3 H5 Client 10.2.1.2

• Languages

• English (US), Chinese–Simplified, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German,

Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish

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Summary

• MRM realizes the hidden value in M3

• MRM reduces the total cost of ownership

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User view

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Preview report sample,

when there is no preset

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Select a preview sample report in

archive (admins only)

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Start report in M3 BE

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Admin view

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Report Configuration, Date, Number,

Themes, Report layout config, User

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