Query re:SmartView over Essbase add-in as Oracle's strategic direction

Hi All,
A few years back when Hyperion introduced the Smart View add-in, I recall that the sales and marketing guys were saying that the Essbase add-in would be eventually phased out and that Smart View would replace it as the preferred way to access Essbase\Planning\HFM applications.
I even recall seeing some presentations about it but a few years later on, the Essbase add-in is still around and there are still a lot of people still using the Essbase add-in.
As such:
1. I was wondering if anyone had ever seen any document(s) confirming that Smart View was indeed part of the Oracle's strategic direction for MS Office add-ins. It's just that I am trying to get some users to stop using the v9.3.x Essbase add-in to lock&send data to some v9.3.x Essbase cubes in a Planning application and am trying to steer them towards the v9.3.1.6.x Smart View add-in instead on the basis that it is part of Oracle's strategic direction.
2. Has anyone ever encountered issues with users using the Essbase add-in to lock&send data to the underlying Essbase cubes which are part of a Planning application?
Cheers,
JBM

The only issue I know of with users doing a lock and send from the classic add-in is that a direct send does not impose the same restrictions as do the planning forms.^^^It shouldn't matter if you use the add-in or SmartView -- the Essbase Write role determines the write rights.
There's no other way to do it unless of course you're going behind the scenes and somehow altering the username READ filter and making it a WRITE. Planning doesn't use the username to do writes unless that Essbase Write role is provisioned.
Btw, the only issue (and it is kind of a big one) with Essbase Write is that it doesn't support locking time periods as this is done in forms, not Essbase security.
Obviously the classic add-in doesn't support Planning forms, Smart View does. That's a big, big reason in the Planning world to use SmartView.
Regards,
Cameron Lackpour

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