The Crystal Ball Enterprise Performance Management Connector is a feature included in Crystal Ball EPM, starting with version 11.1.1.3.00. If you have installed and licensed Crystal Ball EPM version 11.1.1.3.00 or later and have a compatible version of Smart View, you can use the Crystal Ball Enterprise Performance Management Connector with Smart View to define Crystal Ball data cells directly in worksheets of a compatible application. Then, you can use Crystal Ball EPM to run a simulation against the application using a selected calculation script or default set of business rules. Figure 1, Interactions among Crystal Ball EPM (CB), Smart View, and a Compatible EPM Application shows how Crystal Ball EPM shares data with an EPM application such as Essbase or Planning using the Crystal Ball Enterprise Performance Management Connector and Smart View.
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