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# Analyze Your Data

Analyze and visualize your data with reports and dashboards. Salesforce offers a powerful suite of reporting tools that work together to help you understand and act on your data.

Here’s a quick intro to running, sorting, filtering, and visualizing your data.

- **[Run a Report](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=xcloud.basics_reports_running_a_report.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5)**  
    Reports give you access to the data your organization has accumulated over time, enabling you to make informed decisions.
- **[Sort Report Results](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=xcloud.reports_sorting.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5)**  
    Sort a report by the data in a particular column by clicking that column’s heading. Clicking a column header sorts data according to that column’s ascending order: text is sorted from A to Z, numerical data is sorted from lowest to highest, and time/date data is sorted from earliest to latest.
- **[Create Filters that Use Special Picklist Values](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=xcloud.custom_picklists.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5)**  
    Use special picklist values for your search criteria. These special picklists have values of either True or False.
- **[Visualize Your Data with Dashboards](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=xcloud.dashboards_basics.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5)**  
    Create a dashboard to show data from your report with a visual component, for example a pie chart.