Saved Searches have the following advantages over Reports:
- Saved Searches are better at providing lists of data, for instance, a list of customers in California.
- The results of a saved search can be leveraged elsewhere in the system, for instance, mail merges, marketing campaigns, mass updates, and, of course, the dashboard. All the custom BI tools on the dashboard, with the exception of report snapshots, are built on custom saved searches.
- As a general rule, when you're looking to report on entities (customers, vendors, employees, and partners) saved searches are usually the way to go.
- Searches have a function to initiate event-based alerts to send an email if a particular event (outlined in the search criteria) ...