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description: Einstein Discovery augments your business intelligence with statistical modeling and machine learning to identify, surface, and visualize insights into your business data. Einstein Discovery is integrated into your Salesforce environment so that you can quickly operationalize data analysis, predictions, and improvements with clicks, not code. In addition, developers can use the Einstein Prediction Service to programmatically retrieve predictions and write predictions to custom fields. Data specialists can predict outcomes within recipes and dataflows. Tableau users can get Einstein Discovery predictions and improvements for their Tableau data.
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# Introduction to Einstein Discovery

Einstein Discovery augments your business intelligence with statistical modeling and machine learning to identify, surface, and visualize insights into your business data. Einstein Discovery is integrated into your Salesforce environment so that you can quickly operationalize data analysis, predictions, and improvements with clicks, not code. In addition, developers can use the Einstein Prediction Service to programmatically retrieve predictions and write predictions to custom fields. Data specialists can predict outcomes within recipes and dataflows. Tableau users can get Einstein Discovery predictions and improvements for their Tableau data.

- **[Enhanced Analytics with Einstein Discovery](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=analytics.bi_edd_about_analytics.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5)**  
    Einstein Discovery provides the full range of business analytics for your data.
- **[License and Permissions Requirements for Einstein Discovery](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=analytics.bi_edd_about_license.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5)**  
    To use Einstein Discovery, your org must be provisioned with an applicable license, and user accounts must be assigned the appropriate permissions.
- **[Supported Use Cases](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=analytics.bi_edd_about_use_case.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5)**  
    Einstein Discovery solutions address common business use cases.
- **[Solution Implementation Tasks](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=analytics.bi_edd_about_tasks.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5)**  
    The process of implementing Einstein Discovery solutions typically involves a series of tasks.

#### See Also

- [_Trailhead_: Einstein Discovery: Quick Look](https://trailhead.salesforce.com/en/content/learn/modules/einstein-discovery-quick-look)