Output Connector to Salesforce

In this day and age, pulling your data into an analytics repository and generating dashboards is just the beginning of the analytics journey. We want to also take action on the insights and even see them in our operational systems. Tableau CRM has that covered in so many ways and features already, but we have ...

Sync Out for Snowflake

Sync Out for Snowflake
The Tableau CRM team spent a bunch of time in 2020 working with our partners at Snowflake, and as a result of the collaboration, we came up with a unique feature that will allow Salesforce customers to send raw data to Snowflake for data lake hydration purposes. Tableau CRM already had the key pieces needed ...

From Dataflow to Data Prep

From Dataflow to Data Prep
In the past few releases, we have seen the hard work behind the new Data Prep (recipes) emerge. While Data Prep aims to make it easier for users to get started with transforming data and creating datasets for insight, there might be a few question marks if you are used to navigating the dataflow. Hence ...

Dataflow performance with field usage analysis

Some of you might have long running dataflows that you for many reasons want to have running faster. But how you approach this can be time-consuming. Siva Teja Ghattepally has provided a brilliant webinar giving techniques to optimize the dataflow performance. To aid this process Mohan Chinnappan‘s analytics plugin provides a great command that allows you ...

Field usage analysis

I cannot tell you how excited I am to be writing this blog and I think you will find this immensely helpful especially if you have had Tableau CRM (formerly Einstein Analytics) for a while. I find many users end up creating a lot of dataflows and bringing in a lot of fields because they ...

Smart ETL with Data Prep: Detect Sentiment in Three Steps

The next-generation data platform is now generally available in Winter ‘21, and that means you get to embed sentiment analysis directly within your Data Prep Recipes! What is Sentiment Analysis in Data Prep? Data Prep introduces a new data transformation step, “Detect Sentiment”, that uses Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Machine Learning to extract sentiments ...