A Modern, Excel-Based Management Reporter Replacement

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Want to keep Excel® and your templates but find a Management Reporter replacement? Vivid gives finance teams a modern, Excel-based reporting solution with flexible layouts, fast drilldowns, and excellence in multi-entity and multi-currency support—all without all the manual work.

Management Reporter replacement
“Management Reporter on steroids. Presentation-ready or analytical and you can drill to detail.”
G2 Review
enterprise CFO

Why Finance Teams Look for a Management Reporter Replacement

No More Data Mart Rebuilds

Stable, governed SQL model — no fragile replication layer.

True Multi-Currency

Keep policies visible and auditable; constant-currency views side-by-side.

Faster Closes

Large trees refresh in seconds; drill to accounts & transactions. No more cut / paste to get to a final report format.

Finance-Owned

Excel-based definition and maintenance — not IT.
Familiar – feels like the good stuff in Management Reporter.

Distribution & Control

Automate distribution; role-based security and audit trails.

Vivid Reports vs. Management Reporter

Vivid Reports
Management Reporter
Architecture
Governed SQL model. No Data Mart rebuilds and more stable metadata.
MR Data Mart often requires rebuilds and sync maintenance.
Multi-currency
Native rate tables and lineage. Constant-currency reporting side-by-side.
Setup-sensitive with limited visibility and no clear override lineage.
Performance
4,000 cells to Excel in ~2 seconds. Scales across hundreds of entities.
Large reporting trees can take minutes or even hours.
Auditability
Transparent definitions. Trace to transactions and exchange-rate logic.
Opaque building blocks with limited diagnostics.
Distribution
Automated distribution plus interactive drill-down to transaction detail.
Static Viewer or Excel export.
Report Finishing
Presentation-ready reporting directly in Excel.
Often requires copy/paste and manual reformatting.
Future Posture
Actively developed and friendly to cloud and BI ecosystems.
Legacy product with minimal new feature development.

Assess

Share MR rows, columns, and trees; and automatically map to Vivid’s dimensional model.  Our conversion tools make the process fast and simple – all your account mappings are already there.

Convert

Add Vivid to your existing Excel spreadsheets and they become fully automated, with drilldown capability to see GL transactions, transaction detail and even invoices.

Enable

In short training session learn how to build templates, implement budgeting and dynamic forecasting; finance takes the wheel.

Are you migrating from GP to BC?

Free the time you need to be successful, and implement faster.

Transition Reports First

Vivid is transferable. Moving off Management reporter early saves hours every week - you're going to need those hours to transition ERP.

Keep your Transactions

Vivid is a data warehouse - decades of historical data can be stored and instantly accessed after your move.

Implement Faster

You've already learned Vivid and built your reports. Vivid's multi-ERP reporting engine is in place. You're ready - with one less thing to worry about.

Vivid Reports works with Dynamics GP, BC, NAV, SL, AX, D365 and over 60 other ERPs

Connect directly to Dynamics and 60+ ERPs. On-prem or cloud and transferable so you maintain your transaction data when changing ERP.

Great Software Isn’t Enough.
You Need a Team That Has Your Back

Vivid’s Support Stands Out and the Data Proves It.

There’s a simple way to measure what it feels like to work with a vendor, in every interaction, ask yourself: was it easy to get my issue handled?

That’s what the Customer Effort Score (CES) asks. It’s a tougher test than satisfaction survey because it penalizes friction anywhere in the process—waiting, repeating, or being passed around. Vivid scores 6.97 out of 7—well above benchmarks. In plain terms, customers tell us: every interaction feels easy.

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)

No. We map your MR rows, columns, and reporting trees into Vivid definitions and convert priority reports during onboarding.

Minimal. Vivid retains the familiar row/column logic and uses Excel as the design surface.

Yes. Vivid connects natively; you can consolidate multiple companies and currencies.

Initial wins in weeks; full enablement shortly after depending on company count and history to migrate.

Vivid stores rate tables and policies with auditability, enabling constant-currency and side-by-side views.

Automated distribution with role-based security; users can drill to account and transaction detail.

Ready for a Management Reporter Replacement?