by James Killick Ever looked at Business Analyst Online and wanted to embed the same kind of functionality into your own site? Well now you can with the new API to Business Analyst Online! The great new service allows web developers to simply call our REST or SOAP APIs to create ring or drive time trade areas and generate the same reports that ...

  by Sooria Jeyaraman By now I’m sure you must have explored the new comparison reports in Business Analyst Online, if not I would strongly urge you to do so. It is one of our marquee features that some of our users are craving for. I will let you know some more tricks in the feature that will make your job easier. Hypothetical scenario – I ...

 by Brenda Wolfe Market Potential reports are here!  Come and get 'em!  The Market Potential reports provide measures of the probable demand for a product or service in a defined geographic area.   The following Market Potential reports are now available in Business Analyst Online: Electronic and Internet ...

 by Sooria Jeyaraman Site naming in Business Analyst Online has taken a new approach in the current release and here’s a brief snapshot of the interaction. From the feedback we got from the users we found a couple of things, our default site names (“Site_8” etc) are not very popular among the users and apart from the user specified site name ...

by Kyle Watson Let's take a stroll into the retail industry... Daniel Howes of The Detroit News wrote a column recently about Meijer, Inc. looking to open a superstore in Detroit, Michigan.  Meijer, a Midwest-based ''everything-under-one-roof'' grocery retailer has no current stores within the city limits.  In fact no one does.  ...

 by Brenda Wolfe The latest update of Business Analyst Online released this week contains some much-anticipated features.  You can check out the full list of new features on the Business Analyst Online Resource Center, but here are a few highlights... Comparison Reporting New comparison reporting helps you to directly ...

   by Brenda Wolfe Dear ArcGIS Business Analyst Online customers, if you have been waiting for comparison reports, your dreams will soon come true.  The next release of Business Analyst Online in early September will offer robust comparison reporting capabilities.  With Business Analyst Online's comparison reporting, ...

 by Brenda Wolfe With the next release of ESRI Business Analyst Online at the end of this month, a new thematic mapping feature will be available within Color-Coded Maps.  Users have been asking for the ability to map normalized variables, and now they will get their wish.  Users will be able to map ...

 by Catherine Spisszak While on my normal last-minute rush to buy Father’s Day gifts last night, I realized I was again faced with predicament of buying presents for men that have everything and ask for nothing.  The classic gift ideas include clothing, tools or sporting equipment; however, my father could probably circumnavigate the ...

by Catherine Spisszak   ESRI is proud to announce the release of its 2009/2014 Updated Demographic Data.  The 2009 data is currently available in ArcGIS Business Analyst Online and for all ad hoc data only orders. In the past year, changes in the nation’s economy have become extremely personal. The failure of the ...