Author: Kyle Cruickshanks

  • TC25 Recap: Salesforce Just Made Data Cloud Smarter with the Semantic Layer

    TC25 Recap: Salesforce Just Made Data Cloud Smarter with the Semantic Layer

    The Ateko (formerly CloudKettle) team was at Tableau Conference 2025 in San Diego this past April. The energy was palpable, the data visualizations were stunning, and the community spirit was at an all time high. While there were countless innovations and insights shared, one thing stood out when looking at everything through the lens of…

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  • The Beginner’s Guide to Joins in CRM Analytics

    The Beginner’s Guide to Joins in CRM Analytics

    In the world of Business Intelligence, the ability to combine data from different sources is essential. Salesforce CRM Analytics (formerly Tableau CRM) offers a powerful feature called “joins” in its Recipe tool. You can think of creating joins as playing the role of a matchmaker for your data. They allow you to bring together data…

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  • Getting Started with CRM Analytics (Formerly Einstein Analytics)

    Getting Started with CRM Analytics (Formerly Einstein Analytics)

    Many enterprises leverage Salesforce for its native reports and dashboards to understand their data and performance. However, over the last few years, with “the volume of  customer data has been growing exponentially every day, exploring data manually has become a bigger challenge” (click here to read more).  CRM Analytics (formerly Tableau CRM, formerly Einstein Analytics)…

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  • Maturity Levels in Business Intelligence

    Where do we stand? And how do we improve? The world of Business Intelligence (BI) can be complicated to navigate. With many moving pieces, multiple technologies, and many different people and departments being impacted, it can be challenging to know what steps need to be taken for your organization to level up and reach the…

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  • How CRM Analytics Benefits the C-Suite

    CRM Analytics can be a significant asset to any organization with large volumes of data, especially if much of that data exists in Salesforce. By combining powerful analytics, data transformation tools and custom reporting with a seamless Salesforce integration, the benefits are clear to any Business Intelligence (BI) professional. But before any investment in BI…

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