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# Build Analytics Assets with Analytics Studio

Analytics Studio provides the foundational tool for building CRM Analytics assets—the lenses and dashboards that make up Analytics apps.

Use Analytics Studio to explore your data and build lenses and dashboards with data visualizations that give you the insights to help you run your business. Store everything in apps— the containers of assets that tell a story about an aspect of your business through data visualizations.

Analytics Studio lets you do most of your work declaratively through its intuitive graphical user interface. You can also access the JSON, XMD, SaQL, and other files that control how Analytics consumes and displays data in dashboards and apps. Open those files with your editor of choice to make fine-grained changes to Analytics business user functionality.

To open Analytics Studio, navigate to the Salesforce app picker ![The Lightning Experience app picker](https://sf-zdocs-cdn-prod.zoominsoftware.com/tdta-analytics-bi-264-0-0-production-enus/ec791473-f5b4-4f64-a656-9104f455d966/bi/images/app_launcher_icon.png), and select **Analytics Studio**. Sometimes you must scroll or click **View All** to find it. From there, click **Create**, and start building. The [Analytics Learning Map](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=analytics.bi.htm&type=5&language=en_US) provides pointers to help get you going and master Analytics visualizations.