Oracle's Hyperion Smart View for Office (Smart View) is a component of Hyperion Foundation Services. It is a comprehensive tool for accessing and integrating Hyperion content from with Microsoft Office products.

Smart View key capabilities:

• Ability to integrate Hyperion data directly from the data source into Microsoft Word, Microsoft PowerPoint, and Microsoft Outlook
• Full ad-hoc and free form analysis capabilities for Hyperion Financial Management, Hyperion Essbase, and Hyperion Planning
• An alternative, Office-based interface for leveraging Hyperion Planning, Hyperion Financial Management, and Hyperion Workforce Planning data entry forms
• Ability to execute Hyperion reporting jobs from within Office applications
• Ability to dynamically refresh Hyperion data across Office documents with a single click
• Ability to perform selective, multi-page import of documents residing in a Hyperion repository into Office documents, including reports created in Hyperion Financial Reporting, Hyperion Interactive Reporting, Hyperion SQR Production Reporting, and Hyperion Web Analysis.
• Point of View (POV) search for efficient, context-based searching
• Support for highly formatted grids in Microsoft Excel
• Support for Hyperion Essbase Visual Explorer (included in the Smart View plug-in) delivering one-click visualizations, bi-directional communication, and linked data views
• Comprehensive VBA toolkit for developing custom Office-based analytic interfaces