Salesforce Einstein Analytics Interview Questions Part-1
1. What is Salesforce analytics cloud?
Salesforce Wave analytics or Analytics Cloud is Business Intelligence (BI) of Salesforce. It's a cloud-based platform for connecting data from multiple sources, creating interactive views of that data, and sharing those views to users as dashboards. It's a better way to distribute insight to business users, so they can understand and take action on changing information. It is simple and user-friendly in measuring, filtering, grouping, drill down, viewing and sharing data. It's optimized for mobile device and data visualization.
2. What are the wave analytics benefits and features?
- Connect any external data source. NoSQL database.
- It's fully Integrated with all salesforce.com clouds like Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, Marketing Cloud and Community Cloud.
- A wave cloud is fully supported for all devices, like desktop browsers, android and ios mobiles, and smartwatches.
- No data limits, you can analyze millions of business data in minutes.
- It's secure cloud-based platform for your data.
- Continuously monitor the key business metrics on your latest data.
- Intuitive Point and click visual dashboard designer tools.
3. What is the difference between Wave analytics vs Wave cloud vs Einstein analytics?
These are the different name for salesforce analytics cloud. recently salesforce named it Einstein analytics.
4. What are the different types of external data source supports wave cloud?
Salesforce provides 4 different ways to connect and load data to wave analytics.
- Salesforce Org
- Uploading CSV files to wave
- Connect different sources through Wave data API.
- Predefine ETL Partner connectors.
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5. What is the Difference between Wave Analytics and Salesforce Reports and Dashboards?
Here I'm going to comparing some of the major features of the wave analytics cloud vs Salesforce Reports and dashboard features.
Features
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Report & Dashboard
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Wave Analytics
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Data From Multiple Source
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No (Only Salesforce)
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Yes (salesforce, csv, Informatica .. etc)
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Rows Limits
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Yes
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No
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Mobile Support
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No
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Yes
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Rich UI
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No
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Yes
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Control on Dashboard
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Limited
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More control
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Runtime Key
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No
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Yes
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Historical data reporting
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3 Months
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Year over year
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6. What are the different types of wave analytics user license types available?
Einstein analytics follows the "Permission Set License" plus "Permission Set" to manage access to the Einstein Analytics environment.
- Einstein Analytics Platform
- Sales Analytics
- Service Analytics
- Event Monitoring Analytics
- Einstein Analytics For Communities
7. What is a wave analytic app/ application?
Wave analytics app or Einstein analytics application like a folder. you can organize Datasets, Lens dashboards in-app. and It can also allow you to share your analytics app to your users and groups.
8. What are My private app and Shared app on a wave?
Salesforce by default provides my private app and Shared app.
My private app:
This app is visible to you only. You can't able to share this app to anyone. The main purpose of this app is to keep assets with sensitive data or work in progress dashboards.
Shared app:
This app is completely opposite to my private app. This app is available to everyone in your org who have wave analytics permissions.
9. What is a Dataset In wave cloud?
Dataset is like a container to hold your data in Salesforce analytics cloud. The salesforce analytics data servers are key to performance. we can access data from datasets using SAQL (Salesforce Analytics Query language).
10. What is a Dataset Recipe?
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