Reports are lists or summaries that allow you to aggregate and analyze your data in different ways.

Salesforce has standard, built-in reports; however, you can also create your own custom reports.

Users with the "Run Reports" permission can run reports. Users must also have access to the report folder (folders can be public, private, or accessible to select users). Administrators can set folder access or create new folders.

Data from standard and custom objects, as well as records and fields normally visible to the user running report.

New objects and fields are immediately available for reporting and reports always run in real time. When you save a report, you are saving the parameters, not the data.

Users can access reports from the Reports tab, an object's home page, custom links on the sidebar, from a report's URL, and within a scheduled email.