Haven't looked at Analytics in ages. Any compelling reason to use these over say saved searches now? Besides wanting to create pretty graphs, of course.

It allows you to access joins more than 2 levels like Saved Searches. Actually some really nice functionality there, but not as easy to link someone to the results or to automatically email someone the results

Got a case where you'd use analytics over SS's? Just curious

We have many cases that would benefit from multiple joins but afaik you can't bundle them at the moment?

We have 3 custom records. Let's call them 1, 2, and 3. 2 is referenced on 1, and 3 is referenced on 2. I couldn't get a saved search to show me 1, 2, and 3 as they related to each other in a single view. I could in Analytics though.

Just imagine you wanted to run a report on sales orders, that have related invoices, and you want to show the related credit on those invoices. Analytics allows you to do stuff like that. Also allows you to access your dataset via script, so we've used it there. Faster than using multiple searches in your scripts.

There are certain fields/tables that aren't available in Searches that are available in Analytics. That and the multi-joins are the main reasons I've used them, but I still pretty much always start with a search and try to do what I want there before I try a workbook.