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Chapter 15, Analyzing Data with Reports Using Web reporting tools in Salesforce.com can save sales managers time and energy. With Salesforce.com's reports, managers don't have to spend as much time chasing down sales data and organizing it. This chapter gives step-by-step instructions on how to use, modify, create and organize reports in Salesforce.com.
Salesforce.com for Dummies, Ch. 15
Web reporting tools How much time do you waste every week trying to prepare reports for your manager, your team, or yourself? You have to chase the information down, get it into a useful format, and then hopefully make sense of the data. By the time you've done all this, the information is probably already outdated despite your best efforts. Have you ever felt less than confident with the details or the totals?
If this sounds like a familiar problem, you can use reports in salesforce.com to generate up-to-the-moment data analysis to help you measure your business. As long as you and your teams regularly use salesforce.com to manage your accounts, opportunities, and other customer-related information, you don't have to waste time wondering where to find the data and how to consolidate it — instead, salesforce.com does that work for you. And unlike other applications where the business users often have to spend precious time relying on more technical people to build their custom reports, you can do this all by yourself in minutes, with no geeky programming. With an easy-to-use reporting wizard, you can customize existing reports or build them from scratch according to your specific needs. And then, if you want to export reports to Excel or print them, just click a button. In this chapter, I show you how to use existing reports as launching pads to developing your own reports. This includes looking over the standard reports provided by salesforce.com, and then building reports from scratch, and also modifying existing reports to make them your own. Within a report, I take you through the different ways you can limit the report to get just the information that's necessary for creating a clearer picture of your business. Finally, because you're going to love the Reports tab so much, be sure to check out my explanation on how to keep your reports organized in easy-to-find folders as your universe of reports expands. Discovering Reports All your available reports are accessible from the Reports home page. With reports, you can present your data in different formats, select a seemingly infinite number of columns, filter your data, and subtotal information, just to name a few features. And like other pages in salesforce.com, you can quickly find the details. So for example, you can go from the Reports home page to a lead report to a lead record simply by clicking links. Navigating the Reports home page When you click the Reports tab, a list of all your available reports appears, sorted by folders. Salesforce.com comes standard with a set of predefined reports and folders (as shown in Figure 15-1) that are commonly used for measuring sales, marketing, support, and other functions. You can't save a custom report in a standard folder. If you're an administrator, consider creating custom folders for your important functional areas that ultimately replace these standard folders.
From this page, you can do the following:
Displaying a report When you click a report title or run a report from the wizard, a report page appears based on the criteria that was set. For example, under the Opportunities and Forecast Reports folder, click the Opportunity Pipeline link. The Opportunity Pipeline report appears, as shown in the example in Figure 15-2. This report is one of the most-used standard reports in salesforce.com. A basic report page in salesforce.com is broken up into two or three parts:
In the Generated Report section, you can click a column heading to quickly re-sort your report by the selected column.
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