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Trying to create a customized Business Locator Report

AaronNepple1

I am using Business Analyst Online to create a report of Businesses surrounding a point. Out of all of the pre-made reports, the Business Locator is the closest to what I would like to deliver.

Is there a way for me to customize how this report is set up? I would like to limit the scope of the search based on specific NAICS or SIC codes and categorize the report based on those codes.

Also curious if there is contact info available for businesses in your data.

Thank you in advance for your time.

-Aaron

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DonnaBuhr1

Hi Aaron,

The Business Locator report lists businesses based on their proximity to the study area location. The maximum number of businesses displayed on one report is 250 for all business types whose location fails within the area of study. The report is a predefined Esri template that cannot be customized to filter by a specific business type, or by NAICS or SIC code.

You might want to try the Business Search feature where the businesses can be refined to a specific business type and filtered by keywords, NAICS or SIC Code for up to 5,000 records. The business search results can be refined and filtered to a specific study area on the map and can be exported to Excel for further analysis. The exported business data includes the Business name, NAICS and SIC codes, number of employees, sales volume and address without the street number.

We are always looking to improve the features and reports in Business Analyst and understanding your specific use case helps us improve the application. Based on your question, are you needing a void analysis report? We are evaluating customer interest for this type report and would very much like to know if a void analysis report would be of value to you.

Thank you for your valuable feedback, and we look forward to hearing from you again.

Donna Buhr

Product Engineer

Business Analyst Team

AaronNepple1

Donna,

Many thanks for the reply!.

Great to know the limitations of the Locator Report.

Ultimately we would like to be able to search for specific types of business and create a report very similar to the Locator report, but with contact information and categorized by business type. These reports can then accompany other data in a property information report aimed at prospective buyers.

We use the Business Search function for other applications, and that works wonderfully. It would be great to have the option to export that out to a report in addition to excel.

Thanks,

Aaron

DonnaBuhr1

Hi Aaron,

Thank you for providing your specific use case and needs for the Business Locator report. This is very helpful information that can be used to improve the report.

It's good to know that the Business Search function is working well for you and appreciate your suggestion for additional export options. We will consider this possibility.

We greatly appreciate your comments and ideas! Please keep them coming and let us know if you have other suggestions or feedback.

Thanks again,

Donna

AaronNepple1

Donna Buhr‌ I do have one more question.

Is it possible to get the full street address of locations when using the Business and Facilities Search function in BAO? Right now I can get the location pinned, and I get the street it is located on, but not the property number.

Thank you again for your help answering these questions.

DonnaBuhr1

Hi Aaron,

The full street address of the business location is displayed on the map in the site menu and can be viewed in the Business and Facilities Search results full table view. However, Esri's agreement with the business data provider does not permit exporting the street number address. We are interested in your request for the full street address and I will let the data content team know about this request.

Thank you,

Donna

KieranSmith2

Following up on this, I don't see a Business Locator Report for Canadian data. I also would like to explore the potential of a customisable report of businesses around a specific site location. I currently can do exports into excel but it would be good to have an option of creating a tailored report that I could also include it with other variables, demographics, a map as well.

Thanks,

Kieran

BarbaraOwen

Is it possible to create a Business Search Void Analysis Report? I am trying to create a report to see what businesses are not located in a search area. This would be a big help for our business.

Many thanks!

PraveenSrivastava

Hello Aaron and Kieran,

I am happy to inform you that with the latest release of the Business Analyst Web App, it is possible to create a summary of nearby businesses and customize it (i.e. choose the attributes you want in your summary table, and filter out businesses based on NAICS/SIC codes or other criteria).

This blog provides more information about the latest release: http://bit.ly/2IuNfYu. Detailed information about the new Nearby capability is in this video and documentation. Please check it out and let us know any feedback you have.

We greatly appreciate user feedback and suggestions! Please keep them coming.

Thank you,

Praveen Srivastava

ArcGIS Business Analyst Team

KieranSmith2

Hi Praveen

Thanks for letting us know. I've had a quick look and it is encouraging so far, this seems very useful. A couple of things I noticed though, firstly can the text in the output table be edited (i.e. change size, font?). And when I ran my first site I chose "Day Care" from the popular list drop down and yet I found many other business types (restaurants) in my output. Is this expected?

Kieran

PraveenSrivastava

Hello Kieran,

Thanks for trying out the latest release and providing feedback.

You can edit the text in the output table by using the options available after clicking in the table header and row cells in the Build experience.

The output shown by choosing 'Day care' from the popular list drop down is based on a search performed by using both words (e.g. Day or Care) so it might include some other results that have those words though they might not be Day Care locations. Thank you for reporting the issue. We are investigating this. A current option will be to refine your results using NAICS code for the particular business category you are looking for e.g. 62441003 for Child Care Services.

Thank you,

Praveen

PraveenSrivastava

Hello Kieran,

The issue with getting business types different from the chosen one in the drop down has been fixed. Please feel free to check it out . Also, please note that it is still a text based search so if some other business has the words (e.g. Day care) selected in the drop down, it might result in the output. NAICS and SIC categories help getting a refined list of businesses by business type.

Thank you for your valuable time and feedback. Please let me know if you have further questions.

Praveen

KieranSmith2

Hi Praveen,

Just a few thoughts on the new Nearby function.
1. Is there scope to adjust the filter in the live infographic so that the end user can use a dropdown list (e.g. naics codes and descriptions or the same one that is in the original dropdown); searching for a keyword looks to be too open-ended (especially if the user is unfamiliar with the data). It would be nice to see a filter that can incorporate the values being searched (e.g. searching unique values).
2. It's normal for us to check more than one type of business when assessing a site, so I created a test infographic with four reports with a single map showing the results. However the map shows all the results in the same colour. Separate colours would help, as would a title for each result table so the user knows what each one is trying to show (because these can’t be configured by the user, only by an author in advance).
3. When editing a Nearby table, it isn’t possible to reset the filters, which I would like to have as an option. For example when creating a Nearby table there is a dropdown filter list (popular business type). The main reason I ask about this is because it would be much easier to use an existing report as a template for different categories. Otherwise I have to create the Nearby panel from scratch, and I’m using the free-form panel so it makes getting the table and column sizing, text size/type etc a bit of a process if I have to keep starting from scratch.

Overall it's great to see these kind of improvements.

Thanks

Kieran

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