Introduction

Data discovery products are a category of analytics and business intelligence software that dominates new investment and has been gaining popularity, as organizations strive to enable decision-making with data. The reason for this popularity is not hard to understand. With data discovery software, everyday users can create applications that empower them as never before. Users are no longer dependent on their IT departments for reporting and data analysis needs. Data discovery users become “citizen data scientists,” performing basic data analysis and finding correlations. This was previously possible only with high-end statistical analysis packages.

The Salesforce Analytics Cloud is a data discovery product introduced at the Salesforce ...

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