Word of the Day: Wave Analytics

Word of the Day Daily updates on the latest technology terms |June 13, 2017

Wave Analytics Wave Analytics is a business intelligence (BI) platform from Salesforce.com that is optimized for mobile access and data visualization. The Wave mobile app allows users to work with large data files and create graphs, charts and other pictorial representations of data from them.  According to Salesforce, the platform allows users to drill down into key parts of the business with only a few clicks and little or no training in data analysis. Wave Analytics features include: A mobile-first approach that assumes smartphones, tablets and task-specific apps are employees' primary tools for getting work done. Integration with other Salesforce.com clouds, including the Marketing Cloud, Community Cloud, Service Cloud and Sales Cloud, to enable access of data from all sources. Sales Cloud and Service Cloud apps, dashboards and lenses to enable greater visibility into various aspects of data, such as trends, team performance and agent efficiency. Salesforce Wave Connector, an app that makes it easy to import data from Microsoft Excel 2013 to Wave Analytics. Einstein Data Discovery?support for predictive analytics. Wave Analytics is sometimes referred to as?Salesforce Analytics Cloud. Quote of the Day "Wave can ingest all data from diverse data sets and effectively create the benefits of denormalized data on the fly." - Adam Bataran   Trending Terms Salesforce.com data visualization mobile first business intelligence data analytics predictive analytics Salesforce Einstein   Learning Center To update its insurance agency software, Farmers went with Salesforce To modernize its web presence and claims process, Farmers Insurance updated its insurance agency software with Salesforce. Salesforce Wave Analytics App integrates with B2B marketing By integrating third-party applications, Salesforce Wave Analytics App is expected to make data and insight more actionable for customers. Companies still struggle to unlock customer data analytics insight Customer data analytics is the new black in sales, marketing and service. Companies know understanding customer data will lead to success in the future. Accenture serves up data for all via Salesforce Wave analytics Accenture went from no CRM to having 25,000 users on Salesforce Sales Cloud within five months. Next up, data for all via Salesforce Wave analytics. Business analytics tools help music-identifying app uncover insights With the adoption of business analytics tools, Shazam's global offices now all receive the same data reports and can more easily spot trends. Writing for Business The ability to visualize data is important now and will only become _______ in the future. a. more so b. moreso Answer       Stay In Touch For feedback about any of our definitions or to suggest a new definition, please contact me at: mrouse@techtarget.com   Visit the Word of the Day Archives and catch up on what you've missed!   FOLLOW US About This E-Newsletter This e-newsletter is published by the TechTarget network. To unsubscribe from Whatis.com, click here. Please note, this will not affect any other subscriptions you have signed up for. TechTarget, Whatis, 275 Grove Street, Newton, MA 02466. Contact: webmaster@techtarget.com Copyright 2016 TechTarget. All rights reserved.