Einstein Analytics – troubleshooting, blogs & inspiration and learning resources

Are you looking for some practical examples of Einstein Analytics implementations? You are curious how other people solve their Einstein Analytics challenges? Or you need to Troubleshoot and help from the community. Here are a some helpful links for you. (This list is work in progress and definately not complete, let me know of any other resource you would like to see here.

Troubleshooting

Einstein Analytics Success Community by Salesforce

Your goto place for any question! The community is super helpful and you will find many ideas and solutions how other community members tackled their challenges. 

Stackoverflow for Einstein Analytics by Stackoverflow

You will find some information here but it is not very active yet.

Blogs / Inspiration

salesforce.com blog about Einstein Analytics

Topics: Features, Releases, Use-Cases, Trend. Get the latest official news from Salesforce itself about Einstein Analytics.

Let’s Play Salesforce  (youtube-channel) by Pete Lyons (MVP)

Topics: Dataflow, Bindings, SAQL, Releases, Community. You want to get into Einstein Analytics, Pete’s videos are an amazing place to start. His videos are easy to understand and follow. A big round of applause for Pete for putting all this together and being such a great resource on the Success Community!

salesforceblogger by Rikke Hovgaard

Topics: Visualizations, Dataflow, Bindings, SAQL, Releases, B2B, Pardot, Einstein Discovery.Rikke is running a beautiful blog where she dives into everything around Einstein Analytics. Her background in Communication leaves a big fingerprint on her work. If you are looking for some inspiration check out her “3 Ways To Go Above & Beyond With Analytics” post.

Eblog.canntechnology.com by Carl Brundage (MVP)

Topics: Visualizations, SAQL, Replication, XMD Carl is an amzing resource for pretty much everything around Salesforce. Check out his post and unmaged package about Compare Table unleashed!

EdForceAnalytics by Edward Mengel (Director of Product Management Salesforce)

Topics: New Features, Visualizations, SAQL. Edward shows us new Features and how to make the most out of it. As he is in the inner circle I highly recommend his amazing videos! Check out his Voice (Siri) controlled flow to open Dashboards on the phone.

simplysfdc.com by Johan Yu (MVP)

Topics: Visualizations, SAQL.If you want to know more about how to use SAQL, Bindings and Dataflow you are at the right place here.

andrewprice by Andrew Price

Topics: Visualizations, Dataflow, Bindings, SAQL, SOQL

marktossel by Mark Tossel

Topics: Business Analytics,  Use-Cases, Life Hacks. Mark puts Einstein Analytics in perspective why an how we should use Einstein Analytics. Check out his post about why to implement EA.

salesforce-trailblazer by Varun Mehta

Topics:  Dataflow, Heroku, Mulesoft, Mulitlanguage. Varun is great resource when it comes to data-integrations. Check out his post about Multi-language implementation!

Displaying Analytics Dashboards outside of Salesforce by Forcepanda

With a little bit of effort you can host your Analytics Dashboard outside of Salesforce, Forcepand shows you how with a Heroku app.

Learning Content

Einstein Analytics Learning Map by Salesforce

Your goto resource with an abundance of links to dig into Einstein Analytics.

Einstein Analytics Learning Adventure App (App exchange) by Salesforce

Simply install the package into Einstein Analytics and create an App out of the Learning Adventure template. Now you have an app directly in Einstein Analytics which teaches you all the fundamentals you need.

Einstein Analytics Trailhead  by Salesforce

Step by step guide to bring you up to speed.

EA Certification Study Guide by Kelsey Shannon

If you are interested in the Einstein Analytics and Discovery Consultant certification this article is a grea starting point. 

Salesforce Einstein Analytics Writeback via REST API by Paul Liu 

If you are interested how you can push Einstein Analytics data back into core Salesfore. 

 

 

Tools

Chrome EA Dashboard Helper

  • This is a must have for anyone …..period. Makes your life so much easier especially when working on Bindings or backups. Thank you, thank you, thank you Mathew Horvath

Pushing CSV’s into Einstein Analytics (thanks Michael Lowe for sharing)

 

You came across another Einstein Analytics focused Blog, please let me know so I can update the list! 

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