analytics magic
DESCRIPTION
We've got great news: Salesforce analytics is expanding! More and more features are coming out to help you more easily create and manage dashboards and reports. Hear from product experts how analytics are increasing the relevance and value of Salesforce. Data fools unite!TRANSCRIPT
Analytics MAGIC!!Administrators
Todd Enders / Tom Tobin: salesforce.comKevin Buttrey: Shaw Industries, Inc.Jay Hunter: Beckman Coulter, Inc.
Safe HarborSafe harbor statement under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995: This presentation may contain forward-looking statements that involve risks, uncertainties, and assumptions. If any such uncertainties materialize or if any of the assumptions proves incorrect, the results of salesforce.com, inc. could differ materially from the results expressed or implied by the forward-looking statements we make. All statements other than statements of historical fact could be deemed forward-looking, including any projections of subscriber growth, earnings, revenues, or other financial items and any statements regarding strategies or plans of management for future operations, statements of belief, any statements concerning new, planned, or upgraded services or technology developments and customer contracts or use of our services.
The risks and uncertainties referred to above include – but are not limited to – risks associated with developing and delivering new functionality for our service, our new business model, our past operating losses, possible fluctuations in our operating results and rate of growth, interruptions or delays in our Web hosting, breach of our security measures, the outcome of intellectual property and other litigation, risks associated with possible mergers and acquisitions, the immature market in which we operate, our relatively limited operating history, our ability to expand, retain, and motivate our employees and manage our growth, new releases of our service and successful customer deployment, our limited history reselling non-salesforce.com products, and utilization and selling to larger enterprise customers. Further information on potential factors that could affect the financial results of salesforce.com, inc. is included in our annual report on Form 10-K for the most recent fiscal year ended January 31, 2010. This documents and others are available on the SEC Filings section of the Investor Information section of our Web site.
Any unreleased services or features referenced in this or other press releases or public statements are not currently available and may not be delivered on time or at all. Customers who purchase our services should make the purchase decisions based upon features that are currently available. Salesforce.com, inc. assumes no obligation and does not intend to update these forward-looking statements.
Agenda – Experience the MAGIC
Winter ’11 Enhancements
Spring ’11 Sneak Peak
Demo
Dynamic Dashboards at Shaw Industries, Inc.
Report Builder at Beckman Coulter
MAGIC Take Aways
Q&A
Todd Enders / Tom Tobin
Product Marketing and
Product Development
salesforce.com
Business Analytics are Critical to Good Decisions
“Where are our leads coming from?”
“Who is under performing?”
“Where is the sales bottleneck?”
Decision: Invest more in tradeshows
Decision: Provide more stage 3 sales tools
Decision: Give Matt more service training
Despite Billions, Business Analytics Has Not Evolved
So much invested… …still so many spreadsheets
$15 Billion per year spent on
Business Analytics Software*
*IDC Business Analytics Software Forecast Nov. 2008 **Forrester Research
50-80%of businesses still rely
on spreadsheets for analytics**
So Your Business Is Always Waiting
ETL
Data Warehouse
Data Marts
OLAP, MOLAP,ROLAP, ...
Transactional System
Staging
More than 50 percent of data warehouse projects will have limited acceptance, or be an outright failure.
The business can wait months…. …as IT struggles with system complexity
Cloud 2 Innovations Have Changed the Game
Video Is Now Easy for EveryoneYou Don’t Have to Be an Expert…. …to Video Your Life
Communication Is Real-Time
Don’t Wait Days… … Get It Now
Collaboration Is Better
A Yearly Encyclopedia?… …or an Article Every Minute
What if it were easy to get insights?
In real time?
And collaborate to drive the business?
What If Analytics… Were for Everyone?
1 Report Per Month
10 Insights Per Day Per Person
Winter ’11 Enhancements DEMO
Report and Dashboard Creation– Easy Drag-and-Drop Reports/ Dashboards
Dynamic Dashboards (RARU), My Team’s Dashboards– Push Dashboards to More Users, with Less Work
Drill to Detail– Spot the Reason behind the Data
Flexible Totals & Grouping in 4 column components– Get to the Data You Need Quickly
And coming in Spring ’11
Alerting– Find out when key numbers change
Social– Post a dashboard component
– Photos in charts and tables to see who’s doing what
Scatter Charts– See correlations in your data
Management– Dashboard builder switched on for all orgs
– Org switch for “report builder” (especially for PE/GE)
Kevin Buttrey
Director of CRM
Shaw Industries, Inc.
Shaw Industries, Inc.
Shaw is a full-service flooring company with more than $4 billion in annual sales and approximately 25,000 employees. The employees' daily efforts illustrate their commitment and their determination to stay on top in an ever-changing and highly competitive marketplace.
• INDUSTRY: Manufacturing
• EMPLOYEES: 25,000
• GEOGRAPHY: Global
• Total # USERS: 1,786
• Commercial: 550
• PRODUCT(S) IN USE: SFA, Mobile, Cases and
Solutions, Customer Service, Workspaces,
Chatter
• Custom Objects in use: 78 Custom Objects
• Custom Applications in use: 15
Reduce the number of dashboards and roles
Keep individual statistics viewable for each user – 400+ dashboards all individually maintained.
• 4 min. to update each dashboard = 1600 min
• 26 hours per day
– 350 Roles to maintain in order for all team members to have
their own Dashboards.
Dynamic Dashboards: More Value, Lower Cost
Before Running User As Magic…over 450 Dashboards
After Running User As Magic…1 Single Dashboard replaced 350!
MAGIC benefits we experienced
Less time changing Dashboards equals
more time to innovate with Salesforce.com
Able to tweak Dashboards in a timely manner. Better
user experience
Administrator - gained 20 hours a week on dashboard
update weeks.
Salesforce.com Administrator Quote
Jeremy McDaniel Salesforce.com Certified Administrator:
“Can I have more than the current limit of 3?”
?? ??
ideas.Salesforce.com
AppExchange- Prebuilt, FREE Dashboards!
Jay Hunter
Business Systems Analyst
Beckman Coulter
Beckman Coulter
Beckman Coulter (NYSE: BEC) manufactures products that simplify, automate and innovate complex biomedical testing.
• INDUSTRY: Healthcare / Life Sciences
• 2009 REVENUE: $3.3B
• EMPLOYEES: 11,000
• GEOGRAPHY: Global
• Total # USERS: 1,100 UE
• PRODUCT(S) IN USE: Sales Cloud,
Content, Ideas/Answers, Chatter, Mobile,
Oracle ERP integration, Custom Apps
Report Builder Use Case
Why use Report Builder?
From this….. To This!!
MAGIC we experienced
Empowers end users to create their own reports
Reduction in training time from 1 hr to 15mins
Less time modifying reports– Predictive Field Search
– Drag and Drop
– Live Preview
– Single screen
End User Quote
“Wow – that’s all you have to do to build a report?”
“No Way, it can’t be that simple! What’s the catch?”
The Bottom Line… Push the Button!!!
Analytics Road Map: 2011 Will Blow Your Mind– Thurs. 12/9 @ 8:30am and 11:00am
Enable Dynamic Dashboards
Enable Report Builder
Follow the Analytics Chatter Group in Dreamforce App
Magic Take Aways
Virtual Hand Out
Todd Enders / Tom TobinProduct Marketing / Product Development
Kevin Buttrey
Director of CRM - Commercial
Jay Hunter
Business Systems Analyst
Question & Answer
Analytics Magic
How Could Dreamforce Be Better? Tell Us!
Log in to the Dreamforce app to submit
surveys for the sessions you attendedUse the
Dreamforce Mobile app to submit
surveysEvery session survey you submit is
a chance to win an iPod nano!
OR