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A New Essbase Companion—
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?
