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Set Up the Analytics Platform with Licenses Purchased Before October 20, 2015

If you purchased an Analytics Cloud Builder or Analytics Cloud Explorer license before October 20, 2015, you can continue to use your licenses to set up the Analytics platform for users in your organization or you can migrate to the new single-user Analytics Growth license.

Note
Note This information applies only to customers who purchased Analytics licenses before October 20, 2015, and continue to use the Analytics Cloud Builder or Analytics Cloud Explorer licenses after that without migrating to the new Analytics Growth license. If you purchased Analytics on or after October 20, 2015, go to Set Up the CRM Analytics Platform.
Important
Important If you’re migrating from the previous Analytics Cloud Builder or Analytics Cloud Explorer platform licenses to the single-user Sales Analytics Apps license, read Migrating From Analytics Licenses Purchased Before 10/20/2015 to New Analytics Platform Licenses.

The Analytics Growth License

An Analytics license purchased before October 20, 2015 enables you to turn on CRM Analytics for your organization. Each previous Analytics Growth license is contractually limited to a maximum of 400 users. If you need more than 400 users, you can purchase additional Analytics licenses.

Each previous Analytics license enables you to:

  • Store up to 250 million rows in your final registered datasets.
  • Run up to 50 concurrent queries in Analytics.

The Analytics Cloud Permission Set License

Each user needs one of two Analytics permission set licenses to use the product. The permission set license defines what user permissions can be assigned to the user. The administrator assigns permission set licenses to users.

For Analytics licenses sold before October 20, 2015, Salesforce provided the following permission set licenses:

  • Analytics Cloud Builder permission set license enables users to access all CRM Analytics features.
  • Analytics Cloud Explorer permission set license enables users to upload external data to Analytics and explore data.

Here are Analytics user permissions included with each permission set license.

User Permission Included in Explorer or Builder Permission Set License? What It Enables
“Create and Edit Analytics Dashboards” Builder only Creating and editing Analytics dashboards.
“Create Analytics Apps” Builder only Creating and sharing Analytics applications.
“Edit Analytics Dataflows” Builder only Downloading, uploading, starting, stopping, and rescheduling the dataflow. Viewing dataflow and system jobs in the data monitor.
“Manage Analytics” Builder only Accessing all Analytics features. Provides Analytics administrator-level capabilities.
“Upload External Data to Analytics” Builder and Explorer Uploading external data to Analytics to create a dataset. Viewing dataflow and system jobs in the data monitor.
“Use Analytics” Builder and Explorer Using Analytics, and viewing the datasets, lenses, and dashboards that the user has permission to view. Automatically enabled when you select any other Analytics permission.
Note
Note When you create permission sets for Analytics users, selecting any of the other CRM Analytics permissions automatically enables the “Use Analytics” permission.

You can assign previous Analytics permission set licenses along with any of the following Salesforce user licenses:

  • Lightning Platform (app subscription)
  • Lightning Platform (one app)
  • Full CRM
  • Salesforce Platform
  • Salesforce Platform One

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