Publisher's Synopsis
This book is designed to accompany the Introduction to Salesforce Analytics - Building Reports and Dashboards class offered by Stony Point. A person reading this book or a student in this class will to build reports and dashboards utilizing basic and advanced concepts . Although the book is designed as a supplement to the class, it contains valuable exercises that will be useful for someone wishing to learn on their own. This online, five hour class is delivered by a live instructor and is specifically designed to teach administrators, business analysts or report writers how to utilize the basic and advanced analytic capabilities of Salesforce. A student in this class or reading this workbook will learn the basic Salesforce object model, and how to create and secure reports and dashboards. The instructor will lead students through exercises to create tabular, summary, matrix and join reports. Students will learn advanced reporting functionality such as charting, report summary fields, bucket fields, conditional highlighting, advanced report filters and building custom report types. Finally, the student will learn how to create and run dashboards and schedule and email reports and dashboards. Each student will be given a practice learning environment to participate in hands-on exercises during the class. The student will be able to use that learning environment indefinitely after the class without any additional fee. Stony Point is a leading provider of Salesforce training for sales people, customer service personnel, marketers, system administrators, developers and consultants. Stony Point delivers public and private classes virtually and in-person at locations throughout the world. Please visit www.stonyp.com for more information on the classes and services offered.
