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Force.com and Salesforce Environments

Force.com: Force.com is a platform-as-a-service (PaaS) product designed to simplify the development and deployment of cloud-based applications and websites. Developers can create apps & websites through the cloud IDE & deploy them quickly to Force.com multi-tenant servers. It is used to create and deploy next-generation cloud apps. Because there are no servers or software to buy or manage, developers can focus solely on building apps that include built-in social and mobile functionality, business processes, reporting and search. Apps run on a secure, proven service that scales tunes and backs up data automatically. Benefits of Force.com: Proven - A lot of people are using it, and there are very very big Applications that are created on force.com that are being run. A great example US visa Application form is created on force.com Agile - Whatever you already developed you do not have to develop it again, you can use it back again Social - A lot of people will work together on th...

Salesforce & CRM

Salesforce Salesforce is a global web-based application and cloud computing company best known for its Customer Relationship Management (CRM) product. They specialize in Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) to help users handle all of their business needs. Salesforce.com is a customer success platform, designed to help users sell, service, market, analyze, and connect with their customers. Salesforce has everything required to run a business from anywhere. Using standard products and features, users can manage relationships with customers, collaborate and engage with employees and partners, and store their data securely in the cloud. But standard products and features are only the beginning. This platform allows to customize and personalize the experience for customers, partners, and employees and easily extend beyond out-of-the-box functionality. It is a suite of CRM products that work together to make today’s corporations function more efficiently and profitably. They touch many functional a...

Einstein Analytics Data Integration Basics

Kick Off the Data Journey What type of data can a dataset contain? Any of the above or a combination What is a benefit of using a dataset? It lets you explore large amounts of data quickly What are the two main steps for creating a dataset? Extract and prepare Extract External Data into Analytics Why is it important to prepare the data in a CSV file before you bring it into Analytics?  To make sure Analytics can set the field type correctly What can you do on the Edit Field Attributes page when uploading a CSV file to Analytics All of the above Where can you view the status of a CSV upload in Analytics? The data manager Extract Salesforce Data into Analytics What can you do with the dataflow? Extract Salesforce object data into Analytics Why is it important to select the right root object when you use the dataset builder? The root object determines what related objects you can add to the dataset.   What dataflow information can you see in the Monitor tab of the data manag...

Cloud Computing

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Cloud computing is the delivery of computing services—including servers, storage, databases, networking, software, analytics, and intelligence—over the Internet (“the cloud”) to offer faster innovation, flexible resources, and economies of scale. You typically pay only for cloud services you use, helping lower your operating costs, run your infrastructure more efficiently and scale as your business needs change. By Sam Johnston - Created by Sam Johnston using OmniGroup's OmniGraffle and Inkscape (includes Computer.svg by Sasa Stefanovic)This W3C-unspecified vector image was created with Inkscape., CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=6080417 Top benefits of cloud computing: Cost:  Cloud computing eliminates the capital expense of buying hardware and software and setting up and running on-site datacenters—the racks of servers, the round-the-clock electricity for power and cooling, the IT experts for managing the infrastructure. It adds up fast...