Compare Multiple Locations for Faster Decision Making Highlights „ Business Analyst Online helps users compare existing locations. „ Businesses can generate custom comparison reports using variables such as consumer spending. „ Location profitability can be compared to county, census tract, and national levels to check performance. When businesses evaluate locations, they often compare sites to one another, or to a benchmark site that is known to be successful, to judge the suitability of the candidate locations. With Esri Business Analyst Online, small businesses, retailers, real estate professionals, and many other business segments can now take advantage of new comparison reports. Through an easy-to-use wizard, businesses can choose demographic and consumer spending variables to create the custom reports they require. Many locations are geographically dispersed, sometimes over large distances. Managers and analysts in charge of site selection thus often do not have intimate knowledge of the individual parcels or surrounding locations and rely on Business Analyst to provide accurate, detailed data reports, which allow them to respond to competitive pressures quickly and efficiently. Easily Create Robust Customized Comparison Reports Organizations can now quickly access preformatted reports or create and save custom comparison reports with variables of their Custom Comparison Reports from Esri Business Analyst Online A visual comparison of proposed locations to a successful benchmark site. choosing that best meet their individual business needs. For example, the recent economic downturn has led to numerous retailers closing store locations across the country. Business Analyst Online allows retailers to compare existing locations, not just in terms of same-store sales, but also with detailed analysis of the geographic region surrounding a particular store location. Combining factors such as local area population, daytime population, income, and competitors’ locations, and viewing these in relation to their own customer and sales data, pinpoints the most viable locations and where there should be consolidation. Economic developers use comparison reports to help attract new business to their cities. Benchmarking a prospective site to an already successful location highlights the demographic and geographic similarities between the sites. Economic developers can then use this analysis to show new businesses side-by-side data that can provide insights about the local labor force, population, and spending and lifestyle habits. Evaluating candidate sites in this manner reduces the time needed to compile and evaluate critical input factors when deciding whether to move ahead with a development or not. Financial institutions are also using the new capabilities to compare their locations. By combining demographic characteristics provided by Business Analyst Online with individual site performance indicators, the characteristics common to successful sites can be easily identified. Business Analyst Online can then be used to find other suitable locations with similar characteristics. Customized Level of Service Thousands of companies and individuals have already integrated Business Analyst into their decision-making processes, making it an important business resource. The application is available in different subscription levels, from one-time-only reports to premium subscription packages and specialized development services. Nonsubscribers can purchase a day pass to take advantage of more than 50 preformatted reports and maps for 24 hours. More Information For more information about Esri Business Analyst Online, visit www.esri.com/bao. Imagery, Street, and Topographic Maps Enhanced Updates, Expanded Map Coverage Highlight ArcGIS Data Appliance The latest release of ArcGIS Data Appliance includes significantly enhanced map offerings. The imagery, street map, and topographic data on the preconfigured network storage device have all been updated, and coverage has been expanded to ensure that users have access to the most efficient and consistent data they need for their critical projects. ArcGIS Data Appliance, which powers ArcGIS Online, is used by many organizations that need reliable access to high-performance data and tasks behind their firewalls. Esri’s imagery offerings have now been combined into one unique service on ArcGIS Data Appliance. All the previously available offerings, including World IKONOS Cities Imagery, World Imagery, and USA Prime Imagery, have been merged and blended, along with new high-resolution imagery for the United Kingdom, such as Getmapping, and other countries. The best data from each service was used to provide the optimal vintage, resolution, and coverage for the new imagery collection. The World Street Map offering has been updated with improved cartography. The new betterlooking maps now also include building footprints. The maps for North America and Europe have also been updated to 2009 data from Tele Atlas/TomTom and AND Mapping. For Europe, the street map has expanded coverage for the largest-scale level (1:5,000 meters). International coverage has also been expanded to include detailed street maps for Colombia, Hong Kong, Japan, and Thailand. The recently introduced Esri World Topographic Map is now available on ArcGIS Data Appliance. This new topographic basemap is a collaboration of public domain, usercontributed, and commercial datasets, including DeLorme. Esri compiled the best available datasets to create a uniform cartography. The coverage for the basemap is worldwide down to approximately 1:150,000 meters; for the United States, down to approximately 1:20,000 meters; and for selected U.S. cities, such as Portland, Oregon, and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, down to approximately 1:1,000 meters. All the maps available on ArcGIS Data Appliance have been migrated to a new tiling scheme in the latest release. They are now in the Web Mercator Projection, 256 x 256 pixel tiles with refined scales. This is the same tiling scheme used by Bing Maps and Google Maps, allowing users to more easily create mashups with other popular Web maps. All Esri maps will soon be in the same projection, simplifying caching decisions for ArcGIS users. As ArcGIS Data Appliance powers ArcGIS Online, all these updates and enhancements will also soon be available on the online map services. More Information For more information, visit www.esri.com/ dataappliance. Geodatabase Toolset for ArcCatalog 9.3.1 Now Available The Geodatabase Toolset for ArcCatalog provides a collection of tools to assist in the monitoring, investigation, and reporting of the performance of multiuser geodatabases. It works with ArcGIS 9.3 and 9.3.1 multiuser geodatabases implemented on SQL Server, SQL Server Express, Oracle, Informix, DB2, and PostgreSQL databases. The Geodatabase Toolset provides a wide variety of information, including • The total number of rows in the add and delete tables of versioned datasets • Users connected to the geodatabase • A graphic representation of the relationships between versions in the geodatabase • Detailed information of a feature class spatial index • Table and index statistics for multiuser geodatabases implemented in Oracle Geodatabase Toolset for ArcMap, which provides geodatabase investigation and reporting tools in ArcMap, is coming soon. More Information To download the Geodatabase Toolset for ArcCatalog, visit www.esri.com/gdbt. The updated imagery offering includes submeter coverage for the United Kingdom from Getmapping.