Smart View for Microsoft Office As you know, Oracle Essbase comes with an Add-in tool designed to be used in Microsoft Excel.. Oracle, being the industry leader that they are, did not st
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Take a look at the following screenshot to see an example of how easy and intuitive using Oracle Essbase Financial Reporting really is:
On top of the reporting capabilities, Oracle Financial Reporting also has functionality that allows the user to schedule batch report generation, distribute reports, and
divert reports to a holding area Then, to complete the process, Oracle Financial
Reporting can be used to send notifications to specified recipients when their reports are ready
Smart View for Microsoft Office
As you know, Oracle Essbase comes with an Add-in tool designed to be used in
Microsoft Excel It is this add-in that is one of Essbase's biggest strengths and also
makes all of the various data analysts very happy
Oracle, being the industry leader that they are, did not stop with the Essbase Add-in for Microsoft Excel Oracle realized that in addition to making the data analysts very happy, it would probably be a good idea to make the flashy sales people and the big shot executives very happy as well
With Essbase version 9.x and higher, Oracle has introduced a new product called
Smart View Oracle Essbase Smart View, simply put, is like an Essbase Add-In for
the entire Microsoft Office suite of applications
In today's world of on demand this and real time that, just imagine a tool that allows you to go into a meeting with your beautifully prepared Microsoft PowerPoint
presentation that itself is now directly connected to the Essbase database Your
presentation will always have up-to-the-second and accurate data Also, imagine that you need to send a quick email to your team alerting them to some data condition
that needs immediate attention Well, your email can also connect directly to the
database and will contain up-to-the-second data
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In the following screenshot, you can see how Smart View will dynamically update
values in a Microsoft Excel object embedded in a Microsoft Word document You
can do this with PowerPoint and Outlook email as well
Wait, there's more No more trying to hastily update Microsoft Word documents in a pinch either You guessed it, embedded into your document is a dynamic connection
to your Essbase database
Oracle Smart View also works effortlessly with Microsoft Excel
Summary
As you can see, the Oracle Essbase family is about as complete as one could possibly want or need it to be It seems that if there is ever a need that is unfulfilled in the
Business Intelligence arena, Oracle will fill it and fill it better than anyone else
One stop shopping has never been true than it is with Oracle Whatever your
Business Intelligence, OLAP, or Analytic computing needs, there is an Oracle
Essbase product that will satisfy your requirements better than any other product
When multiple products are used together as part of the Essbase System, they are
truly unbeatable
Just remember, it all started with Essbase and Essbase is still the OLAP, Business
Intelligence, and Analytic foundation today
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Oracle Smart View
As you know, Oracle Essbase comes with an add-in tool designed to be used in
Microsoft Excel It is this add-in that is one of Essbase's biggest strengths As you
also know, it is this add-in that makes all of the various data analysts very happy
as well
Oracle, being the industry leader, they are, did not stop with the Essbase Add-in for Microsoft Excel They realized that in addition to making the data analysts happy, it would probably be a good idea to make the flash and dash executives happy as well Oracle has introduced, with Essbase version 9.x, a new product called Smart View
Oracle Smart View, simply put, is like an Essbase Add-in for the entire Microsoft
Office suite of applications
In today's world of on demand this and real time that, just imagine a tool that allows you to go into a meeting with your beautifully prepared Microsoft PowerPoint
presentation that is directly connected to the Essbase database Your presentation
will always have up-to-the-second and accurate data Also imagine that you need
to send a quick email to your team alerting them to some data condition that needs
immediate attention Well, your email can also connect directly to the Essbase
database and will contain upto the second data!
Wait, there's more! No more trying to hastily update Microsoft Word documents in a pinch either You guessed it, embedded into your document is a dynamic connection
to the Essbase database!
Oh, and in case you are wondering, Oracle Smart View works effortlessly with
Microsoft Excel too! Does it get any better than this?
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Smart View is like having your cake and being able to eat it too! Now, let's jump in
and see how we can make the best use of Oracle Smart View for reporting your data
Reporting with Oracle Smart View
The installation of Smart View is very easy Along with Oracle Smart View, you
will also need to install Oracle Shared Services, formerly the Oracle Hub, or Oracle
Provider Services Smart View can be used with all Oracle products, such as Essbase, Oracle Planning, and Financial Reporting
When installing Oracle Smart View in Microsoft Excel, there is no need to uninstall the Essbase Add-In, you can simply install right on top of it After Smart View is installed
you should see an Hyperion menu pick on the main toolbar in Microsoft Excel, this
will be in addition to the Essbase menu pick You should now also see the Hyperion
menu pick on the toolbars for Microsoft Word, Microsoft PowerPoint, and on any of
the other Microsoft Office components you have installed on your computer
By clicking on the Hyperion menu pick added to your toolbar, you see a listing
of the entire menu available to you as shown in the following screenshot: