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How to Download Business Analyst 10.1 Desktop and Server with 2012 Data
Great news – the 2012 Data is released in Esri Business Analyst 10.1 Desktop and Server. This is now immediately available from our Customer Care site and traditional USB media install will be sent out in the coming weeks.
Building Territories from POINTS Instead of Polygons
This is the tenth blog in a series of blogs about what’s new in Business Analyst 10.1. Check out this quick and simple (and hopefully informative!) video that shows how to build territories from point-based layers using Territory Design 10.1 (part of … Continue reading
Enhanced Business Searching – New Feature In Business Analyst 10.1
This is the ninth blog in a series of blogs about what’s new in Business Analyst 10.1. In Business Analyst 10.1, we’ve expanded the capabilities of the business listings search tool. The tool allows you to quickly search, filter and access the … Continue reading
Territory Design 10.1 – Some Top New Features
This is the sixth blog in a series of blogs about what’s new in Business Analyst 10.1.
Greetings Business Analyst users. Version 10.1 has probably shipped to you on those convenient USB thumb drives. I wanted to share some info regarding newly implemented features in Territory Design. I think every last one of them came from user ideas – so this is almost entirely a market driven application. Continue reading
Blog Series – Importing and Using Your Own Data in Business Analyst – (1 of 6) Building Custom Data
by Kyle Watson
This is the first entry of a six part product team blog series that will walk you through importing your custom data and exposing it in multiple aspects of Business Analyst – such as maps, reports, analysis, and applications. The upcoming entries will highlight some great tips and tricks for all things Business Analyst customization. Check out the original post here.
In this entry I will focus on building custom data.
The Story:
We want to analyze and understand cancer risk scenarios across the United States. We’ll do so by combining publicly available nationwide EPA data with Esri Data variables to form a Custom BDS layer. You’ll be able to download and replay this scenario – or apply the concepts to your own organization. Continue reading
Using Esri Business Analyst USA and Canada Editions to Hypothesize Why Hamilton Ontario Didn't Get an NHL Team
by Kyle Watson
The National Hockey League Commissioner, Gary Bettman, wouldn’t allow a new or relocated franchise in Hamilton, Ontario of all places. Most likely due to a sandbox feud with that one guy who makes BlackBerry phones (are those the phones that still have buttons?). But I got to thinking, maybe there’s a different angle…and if so I would need to enlist the analytical help of both Esri Business Analyst’s USA and Canadian Editions side-by-side. We’ve seen an uptick in the usage of these together in several multinational companies and North American partners.
So my theory isn’t that Hamilton couldn’t support a team, but rather it would become a market dominating hockey mad superpower franchise – based on the sheer number of people living in the surrounding areas (too big to fail!). There’s just too much existing fan overlap. Now I don’t think that’s rocket science, but I’ll need the stats to back it up…so here it goes. Continue reading
Automate your Business Analyst workflows with ModelBuilder
by Kyle Watson
At the 2011 User Conference I spoke with countless clients about how they were using Business Analyst. It really is a full spectrum of users…some uber GIS power users, some casual map enthusiasts with an eye for statistics. But I did hear from more than a few that they were “looking into creating models but don’t really know where to get started.”
So I wanted to take a moment and show an example how you can use ModelBuilder to automate your everyday workflows. Continue reading
Download Online Demographic Data to Your Desktop
by Kyle Watson
With Business Analyst 10 Desktop Service Pack 2, it’s now easier to access online datasets through reports and the Color-Coded Maps toolbar. This is primarily for display and discovery, so let’s make sure you are aware that you can also download the online datasets and work with them locally.
Exposing the various datasets online is quite convenient. It’s a mix of Desktop, API, Online, and Server. You never have to wait for new datasets to be shipped to you on USB media or DVDs. They are uploaded and available for more in-depth analysis. Continue reading
Quick Tip for Improving Online Background Map Services
by Kyle Watson
The ArcGIS core team released a helpful little patch to improve the usability of tiled internet map services in ArcGIS Desktop. Since many of you are consuming online map services, such as Bing Maps Aerial, or using the Business Analyst Web.mxd (which loads the ArcGIS Online World StreetMap service by default), this patch is quite relevant to improve the request responsiveness.
If this is happening, you might see something like the image below followed by ArcGIS freezing or crashing.
Here’s the official patch description:
Description: When map service layers such as Bing Maps or ArcGIS Online Basemaps are drawn in ArcGIS Desktop applications (ArcMap, ArcCatalog, ArcReader) or ArcGIS Engine, multiple requests are made simultaneously and then reassembled to draw the content requested for the given extent. In situations where these requests take longer to respond, the requesting application can crash. This patch ensures that the situation which caused the crash is avoided, and ensures that map tiles returning after longer timeouts will still be properly handled.
Here is the link to download this patch. You must have ArcGIS10 Service Pack 2 installed first.
Regards,
The Business Analyst Team
BA10SP2 and the changes to Bing Search
by Kyle Watson
If you have installed the recently released Business Analyst Desktop 10 Service Pack 2 and use the Bing Search in your workflows, you may notice some differences in how results are returned.
Let me explain a couple of these changes and tell you how you can accomplish similar functionality elsewhere in ArcGIS… Continue reading
