The reports and dashboards functionality, which is available as standard for both classic and Lightning Experience user interface themes, provides easy to use drag and drop report builder tools. Salesforce has enhanced the functionality within reports and dashboards over the years and has developed new types of visualizations, as well as improving on the way that the reports and dashboards are built.
Standard reports and dashboards are available to all users out of the box, as well as a number of additional analytics apps that can be harnessed, often for free, from the Salesforce AppExchange. With the continued support of classic Salesforce reports and dashboards, and the improvements that have been supplied by Salesforce, some might question the need for an alternative suite of analytics that is available...