What is Oracle Smart View?

Oracle Smart View for Office is a Microsoft Office add-in that provides a common Microsoft Office interface for accessing and working with Oracle Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) and Business Intelligence (BI) data from products like Planning, Essbase, Financial Consolidation and Close, and Hyperion Reporting. It allows users to perform multi-dimensional analysis, data retrieval, reporting, and ad-hoc querying directly within familiar Microsoft Office applications such as Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and Outlook. Smart View is commonly used for financial reporting, budgeting, forecasting, and data analysis.