One of the core advantages of the Salesforce Analytics Cloud is the ability to process extremely large data sets without sacrificing performance. Building those data sets is not always easy. Vendor tools do a great job but can be expensive and, in some cases, organizations need complete control over their data transformations. In this session, we will explore the different native options available for loading data into the Analytics Cloud, and review the pros and cons of using Apex. We will demonstrate a simple data loader app built with the Analytics Cloud simple API.

1. Loading Data into Analytics Cloud
with Apex
​ Hunter Dunbar
​ Senior Consultant, Cervello
​ hdunbar@mycervello.com
​ @hddunbar
​
​ Michael Shmays
​ Vice President, Cervello
​ mshmays@mycervello.com
​ @mshmays

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3. 1. Introductions & About Cervello
2. What are your options for loading data into Analytics Cloud?
3. Use Your SOQL and APEX skillset to get started quickly
• Solution Overview
• Introduction to Analytics Cloud API
• External API Limits
4. Demo
5. Key Takeaways
Agenda

4. About Cervello
​ Helping Organizations Win With Data
Experts Expertise Client
Success+ =
• We have 90+ people in Boston, New York, London & Dallas with
offshore development and support teams in Russia and India
• We partner with the leading on premise and cloud technology
companies
Enterprise
Performance
Management
Customer
Relationship
Management
Data Management
Custom Development
Business
Intelligence &
Analytics
Advise, Implement, Support

5. ​ - Quick to setup single object
datasets
​ - Schedulable
​ - Need to know JSON syntax
​ - Transformation logic can get
complex and lengthy when
defined in JSON
​ - External data needs to be pre-
loaded
​ - Most flexible way to load data
from multiple sources
​ - High performance
​ - High configurability
​ - Expensive (tools needs to be
purchased separately)
​ - Maximum control over data
transformation
​ - Loads Salesforce data without
leaving your org.
​ - Not great for loading data
from external sources
Dataflows Third Party ETL Tools API (Apex)
Introduction to Data Loading Options
​ Loading clean data is CENTRAL to success on Wave.

6. SOQL/DATA
Solution Overview
USE APEX TO
FORMAT DATA
AS CSV
USE APEX TO
LOAD DATA
CREATE
VISUALIZATIONS
IN WAVE

7. There are two key objects used for data ingestion
• InsightsExternalData
• Composed of InsightsExternalDataParts
• Changed to Process to injest data
• InsightsExternalDataPart
• Blobs of raw data
API Reference
• https://developer.salesforce.com/docs/atlas.en-us.bi_dev_guide_ext_data.meta/
bi_dev_guide_ext_data/bi_ext_data_object_externaldata.htm
Introduction to Analytics Cloud API

8. Limits Reference
• https://developer.salesforce.com/docs/atlas.en-us.bi_dev_guide_ext_data.meta/
bi_dev_guide_ext_data/bi_ext_data_limits.htm
External Data API Limits
Limit Value
Maximum file size per external data upload If you use the External Data API: 40 GB.
If you use the user interface: 512 MB.
Maximum file size for all external data uploads in a rolling 24-hour
period
50 GB
Maximum number of external data files that can be uploaded in a rolling
24-hour period
50
Maximum number of characters in a field 32,000
Maximum number of fields in a record 5,000 (including up to 1,000 date fields)
Maximum number of characters for all fields in a record 400,000

9. Meet Jennifer -
Jennifer is the Manager of Enterprise Reporting and
Analysis for a mid sized medical device company that
builds the Cardiac Resuscitation equipment used in
Emergency Rooms. Her company recently purchased
Analytics Cloud licenses and is planning to roll out
mobile dashboards for 20 Sales Managers around the
country.
Her CIO is concerned about security and does not
want any Salesforce data stored on local machines.
They also need to be able to conduct some basic data
transformations. The implementation is still 4 months
away but they want to load some data into their Wave
environment so they can build some template
dashboards and get used to the UI.
What is the quickest way to get up and
running?
DEMO

10. Questions

11. ​ - If you know SOQL/APEX but you might not know Analytics Cloud, this is the quickest way to get
up and running.
​ - There are many options for loading data into Wave, but none will give you this level of control
over your data.
​ - This is a secure option. Data never leaves Salesforce cloud.
Key Takeaways

12. Thank You