What's coming in ArcGIS Business Analyst Web App (June 2025)

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We are excited to announce the upcoming update of ArcGIS Business Analyst Web App, scheduled for release on June 25, 2025. Below are the planned updates. Please note that all planned updates are subject to change; check back to stay informed about the latest news regarding the upcoming release. Our What's New blog and documentation will provide a comprehensive list of enhancements.

Data and Boundaries updates

The upcoming release will include updates to the following datasets:

• ArcGIS Tapestry
• 2025/2030 Esri Updated Demographics, 2025/2030 Esri Consumer Spending, 2025 Esri Market Potential, 2025 Retail Demand by Industry, 2025 Urbanicity
• 2019-2023 American Community Survey data for the U.S. and Puerto Rico
• New and updated boundaries: State Legislative District and Public Use Microdata Areas (PUMA) for USA and Puerto Rico; Tribal boundaries for USA
• Business Summary data for U.S. and Canada from Data Axle (April 2025)
• POIs: Data Axle (April 2025), Safegraph (March 2025), and Foursquare Global Open Source (April 2025)

New ArcGIS Tapestry

Tapestry is one of the most widely used tools for understanding U.S. community demographics and lifestyles. This update marks the third iteration of the Tapestry system. Notable changes include reconfigured segments and LifeMode groups, comprehensive access to urbanicity attributes, a refreshed user experience and expanded data documentation, and updated tapestry panel, infographics and reports. You may opt to display either the Tapestry name or code in mapping, analysis, and reports, based on your organization’s preference.

Crime Indexes updates

In June U. S. data update, 2024 crime data will be redelivered using 2025 boundaries and be available through October of this year. Planning is underway, we appreciate your patience while we evaluate our crime data offering to ensure we provide the best possible data to our users. We will be provide additional details as they become available.

POI data enhancements

Other than updates to the latest data, here are a few enhancements to POI data to highlight.

• For Safegraph and Foursquare, there is a significant increase in record numbers.
• Safegraph has additional attributes such as Parent Locations and Industry Sector.
• Safegraph has been updated to support 2022 NAICs, which brings the dataset to parity with other datasets. Now you’ll be able to use the same, consistent NAICS code lists when switching POI data sources.

Dominant Urbanicity variable

Dominant urbanicity is now available! You can use it for mapping in color-coded maps.

The infographic for Urbanicity Type has also been updated. This template can be found in the infographics gallery for Esri 2025.

Mapping and Analysis workflows enhancements

Points of interest (POI) search enhancements

Search POIs by code has been improved significantly to provide better results.

After running a POI search, you can now aggregate numerical statistics such as number of points, employee count, and estimated sales volume by site, hexagon, or geography of your choice. This enhancement helps answer questions like:

• How many restaurants are located within each of my analysis sites?
• Which five cities in San Diego County have the highest total sales volume for shopping malls?
• What’s the average number of employees at hospitals by county across California?

This new aggregation capability also overcomes the 5,000-point display limit previously imposed due to contractual constraints.

Additionally, 22 new Places icons are now available for mapping, giving you more flexibility and visual clarity in your visualization.

Smarter suitability analysis with correlation insights and infographic sharing

Selecting the right variables is crucial for meaningful suitability analysis. When two variables are highly correlated, including both—even with different weights—can unintentionally double-count that factor, skewing your results. To help you avoid this, you can now use the correlation matrix to examine relationships between selected variables and remove those with high correlation.

And once your analysis is complete, you can share the results more effectively. Our pre-built infographic makes it easy to present your suitability findings to stakeholders in a clear and compelling format.

Effects

Effects bring Photoshop-like capabilities to your maps, points of interest and other layers in the map. An effect can be applied to all the layers types and map workflows including suitability analysis, smart map search, add points of interest and benchmark analysis. Effects can be applied to maps you bring in from Living Atlas, ArcGIS Online or your own organization to enhance your operational layers and even your basemap layers. This includes adding a drop shadow, de-emphasizing areas, and other effects to make your data story stand out or focus on a specific part of the map.

Infographics updates

Improving accessibility in the infographics player

We are dedicated to making our infographics more accessible to all users. To ensure 508 compliance and enable more organizations to share infographics on their websites for public information, we have made considerable progress. Users can now add alternative text to images during infographic creation. We’ve also introduced thoughtful enhancements to keyboard navigation.

You now have more flexibility and control when customizing your infographics!

• New chart type: Progress bar chart
• Enhanced panel styling: Customize outlines and corner radius
• Label management: Use the Auto compact setting with chart labels
• Cleaner data display: Percentage variables now default to one decimal place

Business Analyst Web App assistant (preview*)

Great news to our international users - Business Analyst Web App assistant (preview) will start to support multiple languages, including Brazilian Portuguese, English, French, German, Japanese, Spanish (Mexico), and Spanish (Spain).

In addition to language support, the assistant is now smarter and more capable. It can handle more complex requests, such as combining site creation with mapping tasks, helping you get more done with less effort.

*Preview is designed to offer users the opportunity to use AI assistants prior to general availability, without the typical constraints associated with beta software. The purpose of the preview is to enable users to utilize the feature in their ArcGIS environment for a limited duration, until the transition to general availability. For more information, please read the Knowledge Base FAQ article. 

Other enhancements

• Users can now quickly select all their favorite variables in one click in data browser when mapping and analysis.
• Improved filtering behavior in color-coded maps: When using the legend to filter a variable, the filter will now be updated and synced to match.
• Additional preference setting options.

ArcGIS Business Analyst Mobile App

• Updates to tapestry segmentation images.

ArcGIS Experience Builder: Business Analyst widget

• A new infographic category called "Esri Tabular Reports" that contains the new report styles of the classic Esri reports that were available in the previous Business Analyst widget for ArcGIS Web AppBuilder. These new reports have presentation-ready design for improved accessibility.
• A new option to allow your app to use the latest data and infographics automatically when there is a data release annually for the USA.
• Support for custom travel modes when creating drive times. 

We’re hosting a live testing session on June 18, 2025, from 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM PST. The Business Analyst development team and the Esri Demographics team will be present to gather your feedback and answer any questions you may have. If you’re interested in participating, please contact us at businessanalyst@esri.com.