Thursday, March 27, 2014

Analytic Snapshots-Business Analytics Salesforce

General Overview:

Analytical snapshots (Available in professional, Enterprise, Developer and Unlimited editions) in Salesforce help the users to produce historical trends in their data. The data is stored in a custom objects pushed by a snapshot scheduler.  The features of Analytic snapshots are

1.       Allows the users to build the historical trend of data.
2.       Sourced by tabular & summary reports.
3.       Data stored in custom object. So the data stored is secure from user tampering.
4.       The user can define mapping and scheduled runs.
There are several pros and cons in Analytical snapshots.

Pros:

·         Supports daily monthly and weekly trends.
·         Snapshots details or summary data from reports.
·         Protects data from deletion.
·         Control access for the custom objects through custom object permission

Cons:

·         2000 row limit per user.
·         Limits to # of user runs per day.

Typical use cases:

              If a customer service manager want to analyze the number of open cases on day to day basis . He/she can create an analytic snapshot and schedule it for a daily run. The snapshots are automatically pushed in to a user created custom object. From where historical trends will be analysed.

How to configure:
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·        Build a summary or a tabular report
·        Create a custom object with all the fields identical as the SFDC report.
·         Configure ananalytic snapshot  and map the fields.
·         Schedule the Analytic snapshot for daily weekly or monthly run.



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1 comment:

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