Differences between Business Analyst Server and ArcGIS server

[DonaldCatanzaro]

Hi All,

I need to explain to my managers the differences between Business Analyst Server and ArcGIS Server.  Could you help out ?

Here are some differences that I know of (but I am by no means an expert).

1. Data - BA comes with boat loads of Census and ESRI data


2. Reporting - BA comes with pre-loading reports and the ability to easily make report templates


3. Geoprocessing Services ??

Many thanks to all !

[Anonymous User]

Hi Don,

Geoprocessing services are not a big part of BA Server. The functionality that is available with BA Server that is not available with ArcGIS Server is focused on the reporting aspect. We allow reporting against our data and against a user's own data if they wish. Some of the other functionality that we provide, beyond what ArcGIS Server provides, allows users to setup customer and store layers and associated these layers with each other, perform segmentation analysis.

A good reference to sget an idea of what the BA Server specific tasks are and what they do is the BA Server REST Reference Guide. You will not be able to run requests from the documentation without BA Server installed on your local machine, but there are illustrations in the documentation.

Chris