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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Joyce Kay Avila
Snowflake SME, Salesforce Architect, O’Reilly author, and Certified Public Accountant (CPA)
Joyce Kay Avila is a business and technology leader who helps organizations build the governed data foundations and operating models required to use AI responsibly.
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