ESRI Solutions for Economic Development

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Business Analyst Online brings the analytic power of GIS to your desktop. Use Business Analyst Online to quickly and easily produce accurate reports with high-quality data from ESRI and other providers.

Your Web browser is all you need to make data-driven decisions with maps, satellite images, reports, and analyses. You’ll use the same high-quality data that national businesses and large economic development agencies depend on to understand their real estate investments. See example

Business Analyst Online combines off-the-Web reports and custom maps that immediately convey the benefits of your community in compelling presentations. Additional GIS data, such as utility infrastructure and parcel boundaries for proposed sites, is often available from other GIS departments. This information can be used by Business Analyst Online to enhance and localize your presentations.

Business Analyst Online is available per report or on an annual subscription basis with unlimited reports. Compare purchase options.

Use Business Analyst Online to

• Attract and retain businesses.
• Find opportunities to expand your tax base.
• Compare your community with neighboring cities.
• Create attractive, substantive prepackaged reports

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Business Analyst Online in Action—Attracting New Businesses to Your City

Analyze—Retail MarketPlace Profile

In this example, using Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, the Business Analyst Online Retail MarketPlace Profile report for the study area shows that the retail potential (demand) for specialty food stores exceeds retail sales (supply) by $9.8 million. Clearly, the city's economic development agency could target additional specialty food stores to come into this market to fulfill the unmet sales potential.

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Visualize—Specialty Food Stores by Census Tract

The study area is formed by drawing concentric rings at 1-, 5-, and 10-mile distances from the city center. A close look at the map plainly shows the upscale neighborhoods where specialty food stores would thrive. You can recommend parcels or properties within the study area as possible locations.

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Summarize—Market Profile Report

As a final step, generate the Market Profile report, which includes a wide variety of demographic information in a presentation-ready format to market to your community.

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Learn how the City of Westerville, Ohio, is maximizing its use of Business Analyst Online.