Agenda:- 1. Why Analytics ? 2. Difference between Salesforce App Cloud Reporting vs Wave Analytics 3. Signing up for a free org 4. Dataset, Lenses and Dashboards 5. Data Transformation

1. Introduction To Analytics Cloud
Salesforce Saturday
Mohith Shrivastava
Salesforce MVP
Salesforce Engineer -CodeScience
INC
Blog - cloudyworlds.blogspot.com

2. Agenda
Why Analytics ?
Difference between Salesforce App Cloud Reporting vs Wave Analytics
Signing up for a free org
Dataset, Lenses and Dashboards
Data Transformation

3. Agenda
Wave Analytics Extended Metadata (XMD)
Wave Analytics External Data API
Wave Analytics SAQL
Security In Wave Analytics

4. 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”

5. 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

6. 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

7. Dataset, Lenses and Dashboards

8. DataFlow View
Create a dataflow to load ,transform and register a dataset

9. Transformations
Append , Augment , Compute Expression,Delta Transformation and so on
SFDC Data Related Transformations - sfdcDigest ,sfdcRegister,update
More Reference here

10. Creating a Lens From Dataset

11. 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

12. 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

13. 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.

14. Wave Analytics SAQL
Analytics Cloud uses SAQL behind the scenes in lenses,
dashboards, and explorer to gather data for visualizations.

15. Security In Wave Analytics
Add a Security Predicate to control the data visibility.
Refer this blog post for more details

16. 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

17. Reference
Trailhead Modules
https://developer.salesforce.com/docs/

18. THANK YOU
Organiser - New Delhi Salesforce
Developer Group (Atul Gupta)
Twitter - Mohith - @msrivastav13
Atul - @atul31gupta
Madan - @madankhichi