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Learning Salesforce Einstein

By : Mohit Shrivatsava
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Learning Salesforce Einstein

By: Mohit Shrivatsava

Overview of this book

Dreamforce 16 brought forth the latest addition to the Salesforce platform: an AI tool named Einstein. Einstein promises to provide users of all Salesforce applications with a powerful platform to help them gain deep insights into the data they work on. This book will introduce you to Einstein and help you integrate it into your respective business applications based on the Salesforce platform. We start off with an introduction to AI, then move on to look at how AI can make your CRM and apps smarter. Next, we discuss various out-of-the-box components added to sales, service, marketing, and community clouds from Salesforce to add Artificial Intelligence capabilities. Further on, we teach you how to use Heroku, PredictionIO, and the Force platform, along with Einstein, to build smarter apps. The core chapters focus on developer content and introduce PredictionIO and Salesforce Einstein Vision Services. We explore Einstein Predictive Vision Services, along with analytics cloud, the Einstein Data Discovery product, and IOT core concepts. Throughout the book, we also focus on how Einstein can be integrated into CRM and various clouds such as sales, services, marketing, and communities. By the end of the book, you will be able to embrace and leverage the power of Einstein, incorporating its functions to gain more knowledge. Salesforce developers will be introduced to the world of AI, while data scientists will gain insights into Salesforce’s various cloud offerings and how they can use Einstein’s capabilities and enhance applications.
Table of Contents (10 chapters)

Setting up the Recommendation engine application on Heroku

A similar Product Recommendation Engine that we will use for this uses the PredictionIO template documented at http://predictionio.incubator.apache.org/templates/similarproduct/quickstart. Once the engine template is deployed, we will have a RESTFUL endpoint that can take a predictive query and start recommending the items. We are using the Similar Product Scala template located here (https://github.com/apache/incubator-predictionio-template-similar-product).

The engine uses the Collaborative Filtering discussed in the Introduction To Spark MLlib section and MLlib for the ALS (Alternate Least Square) algorithm. You can find the entire project on the GitHub repository (https://github.com/msrivastav13/pio-engine-heroku). This git repository has been forked from the Salesforce evangelist team and the project is modified to...