The guy who famously remarked, “Never memorize something that you can look up,” would likely be amazed at what artificial intelligence has made possible in the modern era, if I had to guess. Naturally, that man was Albert Einstein, who serves as the spokesperson and inspiration for Salesforce’s AI capabilities and solutions.
“If I had an hour to solve a problem, I would spend 55 minutes thinking about the problem and 5 minutes thinking about solutions,” Einstein also famously remarked. That sentiment truly speaks to us at the Atrium.
The way people use technology to solve strategic problems determines how useful it is. Even the most potent business tools in the world are useless if you don’t know your clients, users, and the problems that need to be handled. Your staff can now focus more on solving business challenges and creating more effective, customized employee and customer experiences by spending less time clicking and coding thanks to Salesforce Einstein.
What is Salesforce Einstein?
Salesforce provides a variety of AI products under the Einstein brand, including generative and predictive tools. To promote efficiency and customization throughout the Customer 360 suite, Einstein AI is natively integrated into the Salesforce platform.
You may communicate with AI directly through the native integration to improve customer experiences and expedite workflows. Einstein facilitates data-driven decision-making in a variety of domains, including marketing, sales, and service and support. Building AI-driven experiences is simple for everyone with low-code, user-friendly solutions.
Salesforce’s products (and names!) may change and adapt, but that’s the one thing you can always rely on. As new features and products are revealed, we’ll try to keep this guide updated.
For Sales:
Today’s sales teams want pertinent, actionable customer and prospect data at the correct time and in the locations where they are already operating if they are to stay competitive and meet their objectives.
It is no longer viable to jump from tool to tool with important information dispersed over a million separate locations. Additionally, vendors cannot spend their day writing emails and doing administrative tasks when time is of the essence. They can now automate processes, create communications instantly, and uncover predictive insights with Einstein AI, which will enable them to complete more sales more quickly.
With its generative AI capabilities, the new Sales Cloud Einstein provides strong tools to boost sales efficiency. By helping with lead prioritization, identifying pipeline patterns, and forecasting sales, it extends beyond email generation.
By automating data collection, improving forecasting and reporting, and concentrating on opportunities that have the highest conversion rates, teams may increase the efficiency and efficacy of the sales process using this extensive toolkit.
For sales teams, Einstein-powered features and capabilities include:
1. Einstein was the lead scorer: Using trends from your business’s previous achievements, use AI to rate leads according to their propensity to convert. By knowing which criteria have the most effects on the lead score, sales teams can efficiently prioritize leads.
2. Opportunity scoring by Einstein: Use AI-generated scores between 1 and 99 to concentrate on the chances that have the best chance of closing. Teams can focus on high-potential deals by using these scores, which are available on opportunity records and list views.
3. Einstein Activity Recording: Sync calendar events and emails with Salesforce automatically to keep your CRM data current without requiring human input.
4. Automated Contacts by Einstein: uses calendar and email activities to find and add new contacts and opportunity roles. Depending on admin settings, this feature may add contacts directly or propose new ones. (Note: Users are advised to switch to Automatic Contact Creation as this feature will be discontinued in February 2025.)
5. Einstein Recommended Connections: Find contacts in your team’s network who can help close business by emphasizing those who already have a relationship with your clients.
6. Einstein’s prediction. AI-driven predictions and insights that offer more clarity and visibility in team performance can increase the accuracy of sales forecasts.
7. Activity 360’s Einstein Activity Metrics: improves insight into sales activity by providing a thorough perspective of both manually input and automatically captured operations. insights from the Einstein conversation. To find important trends and enhance sales tactics, extract actionable intelligence from sales calls.
8. Relationship insights from Einstein: Analyze unstructured data from online sources and structure data in Salesforce to find important connections and speed up the prospective process.
Next Best Action, Einstein. Make sure the correct offers are shown to the right users at the right time by providing personalized recommendations and actions at strategic points.
For Service:
Because they are desperate to find a better method to balance customer encounters with tedious administrative work, ineffective processes, and a lack of consumer insights, we have witnessed a significant increase in the adoption of AI by tech support and customer care teams. The use of AI techniques is becoming more and more necessary to address these issues.
With the ability to expedite labor, Einstein for Service combines Salesforce’s AI customer support technologies, including Service Cloud Einstein and Einstein GPT for Service, into a single subscription. Service and support staff may now devote more of their resources to delivering better, more individualized client experiences.
Let's examine the Einstein-powered options that are accessible to service teams:
Einstein bots: Quicken client service interactions by automating answers to frequently asked queries and business procedures.
Einstein Next Best Action: Make data-driven suggestions when they will have the most effects.
Recommendation Builder by Einstein. Provide customers with tailored, AI-powered recommendations to remove uncertainty.
Einstein Cases Classification: AI helps agents see case management recommendations by predicting case field values during case creation and wrap-up.
Work Summaries of Einstein: Reduce the amount of time spent manually entering data and increase data accuracy by automating summaries for incoming cases.
Case Routing by Einstein: Using AI-driven updates, assign cases to the appropriate agent automatically to expedite the case resolution process.
Conclusion of Einstein’s Case: Simplify case closure by forecasting the most pertinent field values, increasing precision and effectiveness.
Suggestions for Einstein Articles: In real time, recommend the most pertinent articles to assist agents in efficiently responding to client requests.
Grounding Einstein: Provide individualized and contextually aware client contacts by generating AI responses from indexed data sources.
Conversation mining by Einstein: Analyze talks using natural language processing (NLP) to find common contact causes and expedite resolution processes.
Einstein Powered Data and Analytics
The data and analytics platforms CRM Analytics (CRMA), Tableau, and Salesforce Data Cloud are all run by Einstein. Businesses can now, more than ever, combine, harmonize, visualize, and act quickly and meaningfully on their data with these AI-powered platforms.
Let’s examine the Einstein features and solutions that are accessible through CRMA, Tableau, and Data Cloud.
Users can connect to generative AI large language models (LLMs) from OpenAI and Azure OpenAI, integrate models from Databricks, and create new predictive AI models with Einstein Studio in Data Cloud. Prompt Builder, flow actions, and batch processing can all make use of these models.
Tableau Pulse
Tableau Pulse is based on the Einstein Trust Layer and is driven by Tableau AI. For analysts and business users alike, it offers AI-driven, actionable insights that enable them to take immediate action based on important KPIs. Your team will be able to make data-driven decisions more quickly because to the platform’s scalable and user-friendly architecture.
Einstein Tableau
The upgraded version of Tableau Unified Analytics, Tableau Einstein, will be released in the spring of 2025. With a workflow engine that extends from data lakes to consumption, it offers AI-based, computable analytics that bring individualized insights right into users’ workflows.
Tableau+
The most expensive version of Tableau’s AI-powered self-service analytics is called Tableau+. Tableau+ facilitates the scalable integration of AI throughout the data ecosystem of your company, catering to both business users and seasoned analysts. With Data Cloud, Tableau Pulse, and Einstein Copilot included, the bundle lowers the entry barrier for self-service analytics and gives a team all they need to implement strong data and AI capabilities.
Throughout the Salesforce ecosystem, more Einstein-powered data and analytics tools and capabilities include:
Einstein Customization: integrates with Data Cloud to deliver customized experiences across Salesforce clouds.
The Einstein Prediction Builder: enables users to leverage automated machine learning to generate and implement AI-driven predictions on any Salesforce object without knowing how to code.
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Top Techniques
Einstein Account Management: helps you find cross-selling and upselling opportunities by giving you information on accounts with upside and accounting health.
Einstein discovery: uses both CRM and external data to provide personalized machine learning predictions along with justifications, suggestions, and clear model metrics.
Text Clustering: extracts keywords from unstructured text input using machine learning, then incorporates those keywords into prediction models.
Live Prediction with Snowflake: use Snowflake datasets to deliver direct predictions in Salesforce.
Model Examiner. provides more detailed information about the model’s performance than merely forecasts.
Create a queue model: makes it easier to create numerous models at once without experiencing concurrency problems.
Einstein’s discovery For Reports: employs AI to examine report data, find trends, and provide insights in the form of clear charts and explanations.
Conclusion
In 2024, Salesforce Einstein continues to redefine the possibilities of AI-powered tools across industries, offering businesses the ability to streamline processes, personalize experiences, and make data-driven decisions with unprecedented ease. Whether you’re in sales, service, or analytics, Einstein equips your teams with actionable insights and automation, empowering them to focus on what matters most—delivering value to customers.
With features like lead scoring, opportunity prioritization, predictive case resolution, and generative AI-driven insights, Salesforce Einstein seamlessly integrates AI into daily workflows. Its capabilities ensure that organizations can leverage cutting-edge technology to enhance efficiency, boost productivity, and foster stronger relationships with customers and employees alike.
As Salesforce continues to innovate and expand its Einstein offerings, businesses that embrace these tools will stay ahead of the curve, unlocking new opportunities to drive growth and success in the AI-powered future.
