Esri Location Analytics Improves Decision Making with Cloud Capabilities, Mapping, and Geo-enabled Data
Redlands, California—March 11, 2013—Esri Location Analytics enables organizations to maximize data and applications by revealing thewherein
their corporate data. Esri Location Analytics extends the value of
traditional enterprise applications by incorporating GIS to help you
visualize, question, analyze, interpret, and understand data. It
consists of a scalable platform that works in the cloud, on mobile
devices, and within existing information technology (IT) systems.
The
result is access to better information for organizations at every
level that unearths relationships, patterns, and trends that would
otherwise remain locked away.
"We
want to help people get the most out of their enterprise systems,"
says Jack Dangermond, president, Esri. Location analytics lets you
understand thewhereassociated
with business activities. You can easily visualize data, take it to
the cloud, and open up access. That means better, faster decision
making for everyone."
Organizations
around the globe—business, government, energy, natural resources, and
health care—are acknowledging that mapping of business activities is
essential. Managers, executives, and frontline staff can use location
analytics and mapped data for a range of applications, including the
following:
Asset management
Business intelligence (BI)
Customer relationship management (CRM)
Enterprise resource management
Field work force management
Operational awareness
Real estate planning
Risk management
Organizations
have relied on business intelligence tools for years to examine data.
Today's technology allows people to capture and manage information
about nearly every type of transaction and event, including data
related to time and place. Esri Location Analytics enables
organizations to visualize the relationship between corporate data,
such as profits and inventory, and location-specific data, such as
customer and facility addresses. It takes advantage of core capabilities
to extract new, powerful insights.
Esri Location Analytics Core Capabilities
Mapping visualization: See your data on maps in innovative ways, far beyond simple "dots on a map" solutions.
Powerful
analytics: Bidirectional communication between the map and other key
business data enables analysis based on location.
Geographic information enrichment: External spatial data includes demographics, lifestyle, business, and weather.
Esri
supports a number of business analytics platforms right off the shelf.
So whether it's BI, CRM, collaboration, or office productivity tools,
Esri Location Analytics adds value to your business system.
About Esri
Since 1969, Esri has been giving customers around the world the power
to think and plan geographically. The market leader in GIS, Esri
software is used in more than 300,000 organizations worldwide including
each of the 200 largest cities in the United States, most national
governments, more than two-thirds of Fortune 500 companies, and more
than 7,000 colleges and universities. Esri applications, running on
more than one million desktops and thousands of Web and enterprise
servers, provide the backbone for the world's mapping and spatial
analysis. Esri is the only vendor that provides complete technical
solutions for desktop, mobile, server, and Internet platforms. Visit us
atwww.esri.com.
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