Offers expansive and intersecting understandings of erotic subjectivity, intimacy, and trauma in performance ethnography and in institutional and disciplinary settings. Focused on research within Africa and the African diaspora, contributors to this volume think through the painful iterations of trauma, systemic racism, and the vestiges of colonial oppression as well as the processes of healing and emancipation that emerge from wounded states. Their chapters explore an acoustemology of intimacy, woman-centered eroticism generated through musical performance, desire and longing in ethnographic knowledge production, and listening as intimacy. On the other end of the spectrum, authors engage with and question the fetishization of race in jazz; examine conceptions of vulgarity and profanity in movement and dance-ethnography; and address pain, trauma, and violation, whether physical, spiritual, intellectual, or political. Authors in this volume strive toward empathetic, ethical, and creative ethnographic engagements that summon vulnerability and healing. They propose pathways to aesthetic, discursive transformation by reorienting conceptions of knowledge as emergent, performative, and sonically enabled. The resulting book explores sensory knowledge that is frequently left unacknowledged in ethnographic work, advancing conversations about performed sonic and somatic modalities through which we navigate our entanglements as engaged scholars.

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

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 11.1.2.4

How do I manage and optimize Hyperion Planning applications? 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. Once you've implemented Hyperion Planning, you need to understand how to effectively manage and tune your applications. You will learn: * What is Oracle Hyperion Planning * How to administer Planning * How to use the Planning utilities * How to administer underlying Essbase databases * Backup and recovery methods * How to use Life Cycle Management * Tips for design and optimization * Introduction to EPMA, ODI and Predictive Analytics * What's new in versions 11.1.2.2 and 11.1.2.3

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

"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

How do I build a Hyperion Planning application? 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 of creating 11.1.2 Hyperion Planning applications. 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 *How to assign security for Planning applications *How to set up and use Approvals *All of the new 11.1.2.2 and 11.1.2.3 Hyperion Planning features For additional reading on Hyperion Planning, please check out Look Smarter Than You Are with Hyperion Planning 11.1.2: Advanced Hyperion Planning.

Oracle Enterprise Planning Cloud takes your existing Excel spreadsheets or confusing budgeting application and makes it into a world-class budgeting application that will substantially cut your plan and forecast time. 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 Enterprise Planning Cloud will walk you through how to build an Enterprise Planning Cloud application from start to finish, step by step. We'll also cover the end user features and functions for entering, reporting and analyzing plans.

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.

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 an end user looking to better analyze information or an admin building new applications, you will become a master of Essbase as your fellow workers look at you in sheer, dumbstruck awe. You will learn how to: Use the Excel Add-In and Smart View Add-in to retrieve and analyze data. Create dynamic reports that change as new data is uploaded. Build different types of applications quickly and easily following the proven steps provided in this guide. Use advanced techniques such as tuning and optimization, calc scripts, and MaxL.

"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 Essbase's 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 System 9: The Complete Guide "How Can I Make Better Use of Essbase?" 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 (or 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 an end user looking to better analyze information or an admin building new applications, you will become a master of Essbase and your coworkers will look at you in sheere, dumbstruck awe.