As part of an ongoing effort to offer more GIS education in the business environment, ESRI provided its GIS software and staff resources to assist in the design, staging, and judging of the Business Intelligence (BI) Competition at the Association of Information Technology Professionals (AITP) annual National Collegiate Conference held March 27-28, 2008, in Memphis, Tennessee.

Sixteen undergraduate and four graduate teams used ESRI's Business Analyst Online to solve a business problem that involved prioritizing potential retail store locations from a list of six available sites. Read more.