Oracle Analytics Cloud is a full Business Intelligence platform that allows companies to store and calculate data and display it in beautiful visualizations. OAC provides intuitive visual interactions, self-service data discovery, and powerful analytic capabilities. This Cloud solution will reduce your analytics and administration time, increase the timeliness of information, draw out key information elements important to your organization, and improve business decisions. You will learn: Steps to setup your Oracle Analytics Cloud instance How to build Essbase Cloud cubes from start to finish: Creating cubes with unstructured formats and Application Workbook Excel templates in both the Cube Designer and web interface Maintaining dimensions and loading data Creating calculation scripts and calculating data Assigning security Performing ad hoc analysis in Excel How to create insightful data visualizations Administration and automation Migration steps to and from on-premises

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

Understand everything you need to know about Oracle's Integration Cloud Service and how to utilize it optimally for your business About This Book The only guide to Integration Cloud Service in the market Focused on practical action to deliver business value A professional's guide to an expensive product, providing comprehensive training, and showing how to extract real business value from the product Who This Book Is For This book is ideal for any IT professional working with ICS, any Oracle application or cloud solution developer or analyst who wants to work with ICS to deliver business value. What You Will Learn Use ICS to integrate different systems together without needing to be a developer Gain understanding of what a number of technologies and standards provide – without needing to understand the fine details of those standards and technologies Understand the use of connectors that Oracle provide from technology based connections such as file and database connections to SaaS solutions ranging from Salesforce to Twitter Enrich data and extend SaaS integration to route to different instances Utilize a number of tools to help develop and check that your integrations work before connecting to live systems Introduce and explain integration concepts so that the integrations created are maintainable and sustainable for the longer term Provide details on how to keep up to date with the features that Oracle and partners provide in the future Get special connections developed to work with ICS In Detail Businesses are built on data, and applications that access that data. In modern businesses the same cloud-based data stores and applications might be accessed by hundreds of different applications from thousands of different devices via APIs. To make this happen, APIs must be wired together i.e. integrated. Oracle Integration Cloud Service provides a complete method for integrating enterprise applications in the cloud. Integration Cloud Service (ICS) provides a cloud hosted means to integrate systems together using a graphical means to define and represent integrations. This book will be a comprehensive, hands-on guide to building successful, high-availability integrations on ICS. This book sets out to demonstrate how ICS can be used to effectively implement integrations that work both in the cloud and on premise. It starts with a fast, practical introduction to what ICS can do for your business and then shows how ICS allows you to develop integrations not only quickly but in a way that means they are maintainable and extensible. Gradually it moves into more advanced integrations, showing how to achieve sophisticated results with ICS and work with external applications. Finally the book shows you how to monitor cloud apps and go beyond ICS to build even more powerful integrated applications. By the end of the book, you will the knowledge on how to use ICS to solve your own integration needs and harness the technologies in a maintainable and sustainable manner. Style and approach This book will take a pragmatic approach and will be a business-focused guide to delivering business value with ICS.

SAP S/4HANA Finance is the future, so take a good look! Learn what SAP S/4HANA Finance (formerly SAP Simple Finance) can do, what it offers your organization, and how it fits into the new SAP S/4HANA solution. Explore its critical functionality, from cash management to profitability analysis, and consider your deployment options. Follow this second edition guide to the future of finance with SAP!

This book examines common tasks performed by business analysts and helps the reader navigate the wealth of information in R and its 4000 packages to create useful analytics applications. Includes interviews with corporate users of R, and easy-to-use examples.

Microsoft Azure Essentials from Microsoft Press is a series of free ebooks designed to help you advance your technical skills with Microsoft Azure. The first ebook in the series, Microsoft Azure Essentials: Fundamentals of Azure, introduces developers and IT professionals to the wide range of capabilities in Azure. The authors - both Microsoft MVPs in Azure - present both conceptual and how-to content for key areas, including: Azure Websites and Azure Cloud Services Azure Virtual Machines Azure Storage Azure Virtual Networks Databases Azure Active Directory Management tools Business scenarios Watch Microsoft Press’s blog and Twitter (@MicrosoftPress) to learn about other free ebooks in the “Microsoft Azure Essentials” series.

See how SAP HANA has changed ABAP Whether you're studying for certification or just want to see what's new, you can learn to design simple and advanced SAP HANA applications with ABAP by using this comprehensive guide. Learn to enable code pushdown, use new Open SQL enhancements and CDS views, and integrate native SAP HANA objects. Use detailed programming examples to develop database procedures and optimize your applications. You'll be programming for SAP HANA in no time Basic Principles Explore essential SAP HANA principles like in-memory technology and architecture, the SAP Web IDE, and AS ABAP database programming. Advanced Techniques Learn to use tools like InfoProviders, EasyQuery Interface, and the Application Function Modeler for SAP HANA. Discover how to integrate geographical data from SAP HANA in ABAP programs. Optimizing Existing Applications Get step-by-step instructions to help you optimize existing ABAP applications, and learn how to speed up applications with SAP HANA. Highlights: Code pushdown SAP Web IDE Eclipse CDS views SQLScript Native SAP HANA object integration Open SQL enhancements Geo-information Text searches Error analysis