Look Smarter Than You Are with Essbase - An End User's Guide


Book Description

How Can I Use Essbase to Analyze Data? With millions of users world-wide, Essbase seems to be everywhere these days and now it's a part of your life. You want to slice and dice data, analyze information, and make highly formatted spreadsheet retrievals. You're sure Essbase is the answer and thank goodness your boss bought copies of this book for your entire department! This book is your key to unlocking the world of analysis through Essbase. You will learn: [ How to connect to Essbase databases and retrieve data [ What is multi-dimensionality and why should you care? [ The basics of Essbases end-user add-ins for adhoc analysis [ Steps to creating highly formatted reports and templates that you can use month after month [ Creation and saving of advanced analytic queries using the query designers




Look Smarter Than You Are with Essbase 11. 1. 2


Book Description

Essbase is everywhere these days. To survive and be productive in the business world, you need to take control of Essbase. If you don't have time (and money in the budget) to go to a class, if you just want to learn at your own pace, or if you want the information not covered in classes, this book will show you the way. Whether you're a new admin building new applications or existing admin looking to learn about ASO, hybrid aggregation databases, or design and optimization best practices, this book will help you become a master of Essbase (fellow workers will look at you in sheer, dumbstruck awe). You will learn to: Use the basics of the Smart View Add-in to retrieve and analyze data Build aggregate storage option, block storage option, and hybrid aggregation databases Tune and optimize aggregate storage option, block storage option, and hybrid aggregation databases Administer Essbase databases Take advantage of all the new Essbase features including version 11.1.2.




Look Smarter Than You Are with Hyperion Planning: an Administrator's Guide


Book Description

Oracle Hyperion Planning is the market leading budgeting and forecasting solution that provides powerful planning capabilities over the web and in Microsoft Excel. You want to plan faster and more accurately and you are sure Oracle Hyperion Planning is the answer. This book is your key to unlocking the world of Planning from an administrator perspective, guiding you through the ins and outs of Planning on your quest for improved budgeting and forecasting.You will learn:'¢What is Oracle Hyperion Planning and how to connect'¢How to plan over the web'¢How to build a Planning application from start to finish'¢The steps to manage and administer Planning applications'¢Tips, tricks, and design best practices for Planning and its underlying Essbase databases




Look Smarter Than You Are with Oracle Planning and Budgeting Cloud


Book Description

Oracle Planning & Budgeting Cloud takes your confusing budgeting application or existing Excel spreadsheets and makes them into a world-class budgeting application. This Cloud solution will reduce your plan cycle time, increase timeliness of information for business decisions, and improve accuracy in forecasts. And this book is the key to get there! Look Smarter Than You Are with Oracle Planning & Budgeting Cloud will walk you through how to build a Planning & Budgeting Cloud application from start to finish, step by step. We will also cover the end user features and functions for entering, reporting, and analyzing your data. You will learn: - How to build an Oracle PBCS application from start to finish - How to administer and automate your solution - How to migrate to and from on-premise Hyperion Planning - All of the end user features and functions like entering plans, running business rules, sandboxing and more




The Smart Woman's Guide to Planning for Retirement


Book Description

What does a woman want to do when she retires? Travel? Pursue hobbies? Spend time with friends and family? We all have dreams about what those days will be like. But when it comes to turning those dreams into reality, women's retirement confidence and know-how is low. According to a 2012 survey, 92 percent of women of all ages in this country don't feel they're educated enough to reach their retirement savings goals. For the woman who doesn't know where to start or would like a knowledgeable guide who speaks her language, financial expert Mary Hunt offers a comprehensive but approachable resource for saving and planning for retirement. Whether she feels entitled to retire at age 65, hopes she'll be able to stop working someday, or is convinced she'll never be able to retire, every woman will find real help in these pages. With her signature no-nonsense, energetic style, Hunt assures women that it's only too late if they don't start now. She clearly covers every aspect of retirement planning during every season of a woman's life, giving women the confidence they need to shape their futures.




Look Smarter Than You Are with Oracle Hyperion Planning: An End User's Guide


Book Description

How Can I Use Oracle Hyperion Planning to plan, budget and forecast? Oracle Hyperion Planning is the market leading budgeting and forecasting solution that provides powerful planning capabilities over the web and in Microsoft Excel. This book is your key to unlocking the world of Planning from an end user perspective, guiding you through the ins and outs of Planning on your quest to a better budgeting and forecasting process which in turn leads to better enterprise performance. You will learn: What is Oracle Hyperion Planning and how to connect; How to plan over the web; How to plan and build models in Microsoft Excel with Smart View; All of the Planning end user features like supporting detail, cell text, document attachments, adjusting, grid spreader and more; How to perform adhoc analysis and create reports using Smart Slices and Report Designer from Planning data forms; Steps to review and approve budgets through process management Content covers both Planning 9.3.1 and 11.1.1 versions.




Oracle Essbase 9 Implementation Guide


Book Description

This book uses a practical step-by-step approach with the next chapter always building on the knowledge foundation created by the previous chapter. Understanding and really grasping the multidimensional concept is difficult enough without a lot of confusing jargon thrown in. This book speaks to the reader in plain English with plenty of easy-to-follow examples. You will create, build, and maintain data for a fictional automobile company. This book is primarily for the IT professional who has a good understanding of IT principles and processes but is a multidimensional OLAP novice. Experienced OLAP professionals will also gain insight from this book. Simply put, if you are in the IT field and wish to gain a functional level of knowledge in the world of Oracle Essbase, whether it be for a developer role or a PM or BA role, this is the book you need.




Look Smarter Than You are with Smart View 11.1.2


Book Description

Smart View is Oracle's add-in for integrating Microsoft Office with Oracle EPM and Essbase. In this book, we'll help you learn how to use the Smart View add-in to access Essbase data. You want to slice and dice data, analyze information, and make highly formatted reports. You're sure Smart View and Essbase are the answer and thank goodness your boss bought copies of this book for your entire department! In this book, you will learn: - The basics and advanced topics of Smart View - How to connect to Essbase databases and retrieve data - What multi-dimensionality is and why you should care - How to create highly formatted reports that can be used month after month - Ways to integrate Essbase data into Word, PowerPoint, and Excel - New features and enhancements available in versions 11.1.2.102 and 11.1.2.2




Look Smarter Than You Are with Hyperion Planning 11.1.2: An End User's Guide


Book Description

"How Can I Use Oracle Hyperion Planning to plan, budget and forecast?" Oracle Hyperion Planning is the market leading budgeting and forecasting solution that provides powerful planning capabilities over the web and in Microsoft Excel. You want to plan faster and more accurately and you are sure Oracle Hyperion Planning is the answer. This book is your key to unlocking the world of Planning from an end user perspective, guiding you through the ins and outs of Planning on your quest to a better budgeting and forecasting process which in turn leads to better enterprise performance. You will learn: - What is Oracle Hyperion Planning and how to connect - All of the Planning end user features like supporting detail, comments, document attachments, adjusting, grid spreader and more - How to plan and build models in Microsoft Excel with Smart View - How to perform adhoc analysis over the web and in Excel - Steps to review and approve budgets through the approval process - What's new in 11.1.2.2 and 11.1.2.3




The Lazy Genius Way


Book Description

Be productive without sacrificing peace of mind using Lazy Genius principles that help you focus on what really matters and let go of what doesn't. If you need a comprehensive strategy for a meaningful life but are tired of reading stacks of self-help books, here is an easy way that actually works. No more cobbling together life hacks and productivity strategies from dozens of authors and still feeling tired. The struggle is real, but it doesn't have to be in charge. With wisdom and wit, the host of The Lazy Genius Podcast, Kendra Adachi, shows you that it's not about doing more or doing less; it's about doing what matters to you. In this book, she offers fourteen principles that are both practical and purposeful, like a Swiss army knife for how to be a person. Use them in combination to "lazy genius" anything, from laundry and meal plans to making friends and napping without guilt. It's possible to be soulful and efficient at the same time, and this book is the blueprint. The Lazy Genius Way isn't a new list of things to do; it's a new way to see. Skip the rules about getting up at 5 a.m. and drinking more water. Let's just figure out how to be a good person who can get stuff done without turning into The Hulk. These Lazy Genius principles--such as Decide Once, Start Small, Ask the Magic Question, and more--offer a better way to approach your time, relationships, and piles of mail, no matter your personality or life stage. Be who you already are, just with a better set of tools.