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Salesforce for Beginners - Second Edition

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Product type Book
Published in Oct 2022
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781803239101
Pages 532 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Authors (2):
Sharif Shaalan Sharif Shaalan
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Timothy Royer Timothy Royer
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Table of Contents (24) Chapters

Preface 1. Getting Started with Salesforce and CRM 2. Understanding Salesforce Activities 3. Creating and Managing Leads 4. Business Development with Accounts and Contacts 5. Driving the Sales Cycle with Opportunities 6. Achieving Business Goals Using Campaigns 7. Enhancing Customer Service with Cases 8. Business Analysis Using Reports and Dashboards 9. Setup and Configuration 10. An Overview of Sharing and Visibility 11. User Management and Data Security 12. Managing Projects with Sandboxes and Change Sets 13. Using Data Modeling to Configure Objects for Your Business 14. Lightning Experience Customization 15. Extending Functionality with Third-Party Applications and Salesforce Mobile 16. Salesforce Flow 17. Approval Processes 18. Assignment Rules 19. Data Integrity with Formulas and Validations 20. Testing and Debugging 21. Assessment
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23. Index

8 Business Analysis Using Reports and Dashboards

So far, we have covered the basic objects that are used to conduct business in Salesforce. Now, we will look at reports and dashboards.

Salesforce is a great tool for capturing the data needed to drive various business processes, but what good is the data if it isn't actionable? This is where reports and dashboards come in. They allow you to understand and act on your data.

To understand the data, you will need to learn how to create reports and how to use them. This underlying data is a combined visual output called a dashboard.

To help us learn all this, we will cover the following topics in detail:

  • Using reports and how to create a report:
    • Using grouping to create various report types
    • Adding a chart to a report
    • Saving and running a report
  • Using dashboards and how to create a dashboard using dashboard components

With the help of these topics, you will be able to create reports of various types in order to analyze data. You will...

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