Introduction To Analytics CloudSalesforce Saturday

Mohith Shrivastava

Salesforce MVP

Salesforce Engineer -CodeScience INC

Blog - cloudyworlds.blogspot.com

AgendaWhy Analytics ?

Difference between Salesforce App Cloud Reporting vs Wave Analytics

Signing up for a free org

Dataset, Lenses and Dashboards

Data Transformation

AgendaWave 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 ViewCreate a dataflow to load ,transform and register a dataset

TransformationsAppend , 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 XMDExtended 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 APIThe 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 AnalyticsAdd a Security Predicate to control the data visibility.

Refer this blog post for more details

Developer NotesThe 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

ReferenceTrailhead Modules

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

THANK YOUOrganiser - New Delhi Salesforce Developer Group (Atul Gupta)

Twitter - Mohith - @msrivastav13 Atul - @atul31gupta Madan - @madankhichi