by Kyle Watson Hello blog readers, This is a story about ''which side of the tracks'' you are on and how demographic analysis comes into play.  More importantly how to identify certain anomalies when one side is completely opposite of the other - and the sum doesn't equal its parts. To illustrate this point let's say we are a national ...

by Kyle Watson Hi there, One of my favorite features in ESRI Business Analyst is the Benchmark Report.  It allows you to compare multiple trade areas against one another to decipher how different or similar one location is versus the next. This is essential for companies in the franchising, banking, and retail industries looking to ...

  by Kyle Watson ArcGIS Business Analyst for the desktop comes with a plethora of valuable tools, sometimes we hear, ''wow, I had no idea that did that...cool!''.  Here's a great one that maybe you haven't used:  the Summarize Points Report.  Here's what is does: It allows you to (1) quickly total up the number of ...

 by Garry Burgess   I had a request over the New Year’s holiday to create a custom tool to batch create reports for a trade area layer.  The idea behind this custom tool is to create an individual report for each feature in a trade area layer.  For example, an analyst creates a separate demographic trade area report for each ...

by Bob HazeltonAfter more than a few late nights the Business Analyst Server team delivered DVDs to our manufacturing group just before the end of the year.  We are anticipating that we will have the product in boxes to be shipped out to all of our friends during the week of January 26th.Here are some highlights of the 9.3 release: Stateless ...