Introduction To Analytics Cloud

Salesforce Saturday

Mohith Shrivastava

Salesforce MVP

Salesforce Engineer -CodeScience

INC

Blog - cloudyworlds.blogspot.com

Agenda

Why Analytics ?

Difference between Salesforce App Cloud Reporting vs Wave Analytics

Signing up for a free org

Dataset, Lenses and Dashboards

Data Transformation

Agenda

Wave Analytics Extended Metadata (XMD)

Wave Analytics External Data API

Wave Analytics SAQL

Security In Wave Analytics

Why Analytics ?

A picture is better than thousand words ...

“Analytics enables professionals to convert extensive data and statistical and

quantitative analysis into powerful insights that can drive efficient decisions”

Difference between Salesforce App cloud

Reporting vs Wave Analytics

Salesforce Reports and Dashboards Analytics Cloud

Salesforce only(Note now external objects

also support reporting)

Data from salesforce and external sources

Operational Reporting on Salesforce Data

to Get a Snapshot of CRM

Analytics Discovery Platform to Explore

Any Data and Ask New Questions

Real-Time Reports and Dashboards Interactive Data Discovery on Any Device

Signing up for a free org

https://developer.salesforce.com/promotions/orgs/wave-de

If you are an ISV partner you can spin an org from your environment hub and that

will have wave enabled

If you are an SI partner you can use success community analytics chatter group

and request for a wave enabled org

Once you get an org first thing you do is assign appropriate permission sets

Dataset, Lenses and Dashboards

DataFlow View

Create a dataflow to load ,transform and register a dataset

Transformations

Append , Augment , Compute Expression,Delta Transformation and so on

SFDC Data Related Transformations - sfdcDigest ,sfdcRegister,update

More Reference here

Creating a Lens From Dataset

Creating Dashboard from the Lens

Use the new flex designer to create dashboards

Use the list and chart combination to add data bindings and visualizations

Extended Metadata or XMD

Extended metadata (XMD) enables you to customize the formatting of dashboard

elements in Wave Analytics.

The formatting of measures

Display labels for dimensions and measures

The grouping of dimensions of measures

Colors of specific fields

Default columns to be displayed for a values table

The hiding of dimensions and measures in the user interface

Wave Analytics External Data API

The External Data API enables you to upload external data files to Wave Analytics. The External Data API

can upload .csv files, and you can optionally specify the structure of your data by defining metadata in

JSON format.

Wave Analytics SAQL

Analytics Cloud uses SAQL behind the scenes in lenses,

dashboards, and explorer to gather data for visualizations.

Security In Wave Analytics

Add a Security Predicate to control the data visibility.

Refer this blog post for more details

Developer Notes

The analytics cloud solution can be packaged and distributed on appexchange as

managed package

There are SDK planned for mobile apps and Node apps

Communities now support wave analytics

Reference

Trailhead Modules

https://developer.salesforce.com/docs/

THANK YOU

Organiser - New Delhi Salesforce

Developer Group (Atul Gupta)

Twitter - Mohith - @msrivastav13

Atul - @atul31gupta