The Smart View function builder is surely not a new topic. It exists since the on-premises Hyperion Planning came to the market decades ago, and it came to the cloud solutions in 2014. If you have used Hyperion or EPM cloud products, you might know the function builder feature from one of the following…
Quick question, when using Smart View, from the log-in page, if you use SSO/company sign-in and have selected “Remember My Choice”, how would you go back to the original page to change the domain name and username/password? We will take a look at this situation in this post. When using Smart View to…
As you know, Smart View is an Excel add-in. For years, it is only available for Windows OS. Starting from this month, June 2019, it finally supports Excel 365 for Mac OS and a browser-based version of Excel 365. The new Smart View add-in provides for a thin and customizable deployment across the enterprise…
Last month (Nov 2018), Smart View got a new patch, v.11.1.2.5.810, which includes a few new functionalities. One of the cool functions is the drill-through launch option. When connected to an EPM service and using data management to load data for drill through reports, we can now launch the reports in Excel itself directly. Currently,…
When Essbase Cloud got released, a new Excel add-in coming with the Essbase Cloud, the Cube Designer. We briefly discussed about the Cube Designer in the previous posts. Now, let’s dig into more details. Basically, we are able to use Cube Designer to connect to Essbase application. It helps us to design, create and…
We have discussed the EPM automate many times. From an admin perspective, it is very useful. It enables service admins to remotely perform tasks within Oracle EPM Cloud instances and automate many repeatable tasks, such as import and export of metadata and data, refresh database, launch business rules, run data load rules, etc. But…
As we know, Smart View is an Office add-in, which provides a common Office interface for EPM products. Through Smart View, we are able to link to the on-premise Hyperion, Essbase, PBCS, and other EPM applications. We can view, import, distribute data in Excel, Word and PowerPoint. But you may or may not…