O’Reilly Salesforce Data Cloud Book

Hands-On Salesforce Data Cloud

Implementing and Managing a Real-Time Customer Data Platform

Author: Joyce Kay Avila
Publisher: O’Reilly Media

Learn how to implement and manage a modern customer data platform (CDP) through the Salesforce Data Cloud platform. This practical book provides a comprehensive overview that shows architects, administrators, developers, data engineers, and marketers how to ingest, store, and manage real-time customer data.

Author Joyce Kay Avila demonstrates how to use Salesforce’s native connectors, canonical data model, and Einstein’s built-in trust layer to accelerate your time to value. You’ll learn how to leverage Salesforce’s low-code/no-code functionality to expertly build a Data Cloud foundation that unlocks the power of structured and unstructured data. Use Data Cloud tools to build your own predictive models or leverage third-party machine learning platforms like Amazon SageMaker, Google Vertex AI, and Databricks.

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Praise Quotes

These praise quotes appear in the book.

“This is a most impressive book. It combines a comprehensive view of the topic with specific information on the details of using Salesforce Data Cloud. It will be a huge help to Data Cloud deployment teams and business users.”

David Raab

Founder and CEO, Customer Data Platform Institute

“This book is the first, and already definitive, practical guide to setting up, managing, using, and optimizing Salesforce Data Cloud.”

Martin Kihn

SVP Strategy, Salesforce Marketing Cloud