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Learning Salesforce Einstein

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Learning Salesforce Einstein

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 Wave Analytics Cloud

The simplest way to obtain a developer instance for the Wave Analytics Cloud is to use this link: https://developer.salesforce.com/promotions/orgs/wave-de. These instances can be used to experiment with and understand the Analytics Cloud product. For our discussion, we will assume that the reader will sign up for developer instances using the provided link. The process of signing up involves filling in your details, such as company name, a valid email, and a desired username.

If you are an Integrated Software Vendor (ISV) partner, you can create an organization from your environment hub, which will have Wave enabled; if you are an SI (System Integrator) partner, you can use the success community analytics Chatter group and request a Wave enabled organization.

The first thing you will notice in an org with Wave enabled is an application with the...