When it comes to analytics, a focus on business outcomes is perhaps the only thing that matters. But unfortunately customers get bogged down by technology constraints, long project cycles, and spending countless hours doing change management on what KPIs to measure. We want to free you from focusing on systems & technology and empower you to focus on your customers.

Bringing analytics and business process together to deliver intelligent experiences is a big element of our strategy. Our Analytics team has made this concept a foundational aspect of the product, providing a complete set of analytics capabilities — from basic reports and dashboards; to the advanced Einstein Analytics platform that provides line-of-business analytics apps and a platform to customize with external data; to AI-powered Einstein Discovery, bringing predictive and prescriptive recommendations to every business process.

As companies race to become data-driven, they need to start their analytics journey quickly and iterate as needed. SPEED of implementation is a must have. AGILITY is too.

You need an easy button that gives your team a fast start but is backed by a platform that allows you to iterate even faster. And so, today, we're announcing Analytics Templates — the building blocks that make building an Intelligent Analytics experience quick and easy.

Analytics Templates: from data to actionable insights in minutes

Analytics Templates provide an accelerated start for customers kicking off their analytics journey. With best-practice KPIs that are customizable for your business, Templates allows line-of-business leaders to get their teams up and running on Einstein Analytics within 15-20 minutes, and in some cases even less. They can use the templates as building blocks and easily create a complete analytics experience within an analytics app using the platform by combining the power of a few templates for different purposes, like a change analytics and waterfall, or adding some of their own custom assets as well, such as pipeline revenue management.

An Analytics Template is much more than just a static dashboard and is engineered with the personalization needs of our customers in mind, enabling them to easily make them their own! There are four key elements that make it the only quick start tool any business would need:

• Advanced Data: The templates do all the legwork needed to optimize, enrich, analyze, and pull in the data needed for a specific business need. For example, this automates the process of pulling all the different Salesforce objects like Accounts, Opportunities, Products, and Owners necessary for pipeline trending.
• Intelligent KPIs: Best-practice KPIs are built into the templates to provide a ready-to-go guidance system for your business. These can be purpose (waterfall chart), audience (line of business, like sales or service), or workflow focused.
• Quick Start: A simple, configurable wizard gets you started to create a completely functional set of analytical assets that include dashboards and datasets within minutes.

These Templates become more powerful when combined with existing Einstein Analytics features:

• Analytics Datasets, Recipes, and Connections: Recipes and Connectors allow you to combine your Salesforce data with internal and external datasets such as quota data, orders, and revenue for a more complete look at your business.
• Native, Security, Sharing: Security and advanced security predicates come out of the box.
• Mobile-Ready: Device-appropriate layouts mean salespeople can access analytics on the go, or a service agent can work from the field.
• In-Context and Conversational Experiences: Our recently launched Conversational Queries feature. By typing conversational phrases related to their data — such as “show me top accounts by annual revenue” or “rank accounts decreasing by annual revenue and billing country” — users can instantly view answers in automatically-built interactive charts.
• Intelligence: AI-powered predictive insights and recommendations make every user work smarter.
• Customizability: Provides customers with the ability to easily edit dashboards and extend their functionality further to meet their custom needs.

There is a template for everyone

The insights and KPIs needed for each business user can vary across different industries, lines of businesses, or specific roles, which is why we're creating three types of templates for our customers:

1. Industry Templates

Providing guidance and best practices to up-level the customer interactions for users in specific industries. For example, financial advisors can manage their book of business with advanced customer insights, stay proactive with incoming issues, and target customers to grow assets under management. Caregivers can uniquely target patients to reduce re-admissions. Non-profits can stay on top of their pipe to drive funds and campaigns.