Atlas

What do you like best?

For our business/accounting needs, the reporting native to Dynamics was poor and limited. We've found Atlas able to provide the key financial info needed.

Does require savvy Excel users to use, but those skills are common in Accounting teams.

What do you dislike?

Is complicated to install and manage as an IT person. Support was needed to get licensing needs met. We want to have a test system in parallel with production.

Trying to get a handle on options and having an extra cost isn't desired but was necessary. I wouldn't not recommend running without being able to test first.

Recommendations to others considering the product:

Integrates well with Office applications, extensive set of functions and reporting to greatly improve the data access and analysis of Dynamics daa

What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized?

As noted, we found Dynamics reports very weak and in effective for our financial reporting needs. Atlas has been able to give us key data for management.

We are current Dynamics 2009 users moving to Dynamics 2012 and will depend on Atlas.