Business Solutions

Businesses must manage and use a world of information. This information includes a geographic location, an address, a service boundary, a sales territory, or a delivery route that can be viewed and analyzed on a map. ESRI's GIS software integrated with business, demographic, geographic, and customer data produce applications that can be shared across an entire organization, to the field, and via the Internet. Maximize your return on investment (ROI) through a host of geographic applications that include selecting the best sites, profiling customers, analyzing market areas, updating and managing assets in real time, and providing location-based services (LBS) to users. Discover what ESRI customers have known for years; using GIS software and data allows them to make better, more informed business decisions. Customer Analysis Knowing and understanding your customers' tastes are integral to the success of a direct mail campaign. GIS helps to identify who your most valuable customers are, understand them, and measure their response. Market Analysis What works in Atlanta might not always work in Seattle. GIS market analysis tools can help you to determine which products and promotions match lifestyles and buying patterns of your customers. Site Selection GIS can help you find the right site for your next store, distribution center, or service department. With a GIS, you can visualize market penetration, market share, and trade areas.

Risk Analysis
GIS can improve the efficiency and consistency of capital allocation and exposure control with respect to risk. GIS also manages faster and accurate post event loss estimation with enhanced reporting capabilities that allow you to view the data geographically and statistically.

Territory Management
How do you manage business territories? GIS can make sense of data and show you the best scenarios for expanding, protecting and leveraging your business.

GIS can also be used to track, manage and predict your sales and inventory. It can also be used to identify under performing areas and balance territories that appear to be uneven or skewed.

GIS helps business do territory management by answering questions like

• How can I create balanced territories?
• What is the average sum of sales of customers by territory?
• How do I optimize the design of my sales territories?
• How do I manage my sales territories?

Facility/Property/Asset Management
GIS allows companies to visualize and analyze their assets including acquisition, tracking, maintenance, and management of real property and capital equipment.

GIS helps businesses perform better facility/property/asset management by answering questions like

• Where are my distributors and suppliers?
• How can I maximize revenue potentials?
• What risk/security plans are needed?

Supply Chain Management
GIS can be used to model supply and delivery points. GIS network tracing and analysis can then be used to determine product routing, optimizing and providing data management and reporting support for sophisticated product transaction management systems.

GIS helps businesses to answer supply chain management questions like

• What is my drive time from the central facility?
• How long will it take me to reach delivery locations?
• Which customers should be in separate service areas?
• How can I track goods through my supply chain?
• How can I see what is happening with my supply chain?

Logistics
GIS can help companies save on operating expenses with out-of the-box logistics-oriented software products, or design a routing solution that's tailored to specific needs.

GIS helps business answer logistics questions such as

• What is the best route for my delivery trucks?
• How should I schedule my deliveries?
• What mobile units do I have available?
• What is the best way to optimize my territory?
• Where is the best site for delivery hubs?
• How can I optimize my fleet to meet service goals and minimize costs?

Business Continuity
GIS can assist with facilities management, employee notification, incident mapping, weather mapping, office relocation, evacuation, threat assessment, and supply chain assessment.