ArcGIS Business Analyst Reviews

I personally utilize the spatial overlay function, as a way to enrich my Postal-specific geographies, develop trade areas, and determine what type of facility should exist where.

Unfortunately, my organization only maintains a few BA licenses. As one of the most heavy users, it's unfortunate to only be able to access when available through a VM.

Have a very well-defined workflow in mind when using to develop trade areas. Use the COTS capabilities as a starting guide to generate your own tool, specific to your goal to make the most informed decisions.

I utilize trade area development, business listings, derive new locations, and several others regularly to develop a new network in accord with demographic trends.

I like the array of information Business Analyst Online will give users looking for quick reports and the regions you are able to select/make.

I dislike that within drawn or selected regions around a US Census-based block group, etc. the market data are given in reports in innacurate and doesn't show the exact locations selected.

Create reports using US Census group data; not data from creating your own polygon shapefiles for reports.

The reports are easy to use and easy to take numbers from for other reporting.

I enjoy how easy it is to figure out, as well as the customer service help if needed. Also it provides many data points that most other programs do not have access to.

I dislike the lack of information when it comes to where they are getting their data. I understand when some of it is census based, but for the other components I would like to know more.

Business real estate decisions based on;

Clients patient base,

Clients customer base,

Clients workforce base.

ArcGIS makes it very easy to view maps and spatial data. It is easy to create meaningful, and visually appealing infographics, which is important for us in presenting data we acquire.

Every once in a while, I come across small bugs and glitches - nothing that restarting the computer can't fix.

ArcGIS helps us in validating acquired data with public record data online, i.e. address, legal description, acreage. It helps us add a visual to our data.

I like being able to inter-related different datasources in order to see a complete picture. This allows for data-driven decision making.

I believe there can be improvements with the shareability of analytics

We are working with Analyst Desktop to analyze and transform data to help support our open data and digital cities transformation

The vast capabilities for interpreting customer data, store tracking, and site analysis

The buggy Locator Report tool. Does not like Model Builder inline variables and issues with specifying defining geographies

Learn proper Model Builder practices to gain the most use of the Business Analyst tools, such as iterators

Calculating market share, trade areas, competitive impacts, and helping internal customers interpret their data spatially