ArcGIS Business Analyst Product Capabilities Comparison

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This article has been updated on December 16, 2024

We have written this blog article to assist users in deciding which ArcGIS Business Analyst product is best suited for their organization.

The following table provides a detailed list of capabilities and components within:

• Software (as shown in Table 1)
• Data (Table 2)
• Bundles (as shown in Table 3). 

Table 1. ArcGIS Business Analyst Software Capabilities Comparison 

Applications	ArcGIS Business Analyst Web App Standard	ArcGIS Business Analyst Web App Advanced	ArcGIS Business Analyst Pro
User Type Required	Creator, Professional, or Professional Plus user type	Creator, Professional, or Professional Plus user type	Creator, Professional, or Professional Plus user type
Defining Areas:
Define areas workflow: Find address	✔	✔	✔
Define areas workflow: Find standard geography	✔	✔	✔
Define areas workflow: Draw polygon	✔	✔	✔
Define driving distance around address (trade area)	✔	✔	✔
Infographics and Reports:
Run standard infographics	✔	✔	✔
View shared infographics	✔	✔	✔
Export infographics (PDF, Image, Dynamics HTML)	✔	✔	✔
Benchmark Comparisons: Compare locations, such as sites and trade areas, using variables	✔	✔	✔
Build custom infographics		✔	✔
Workflows and Analysis:
Points of Interest Search: Search for points of interest, such as businesses, facilities, government buildings, landmarks, and more	✔	✔	✔
Color-Coded Maps / Layer: Identify important patterns in areas by viewing information about key metrics on a map	✔	✔	✔
Enrich A Layer: Append business and demographic variables to your features to further analyze, model, and report on your data.	✔	✔	✔
Smart Map Search: View geography areas that match specific criteria	✔	✔
Void Analysis: Detect voids and gaps in specific businesses and services, compared to another area		✔
Threshold Area Analysis: Create rings or drive times around a site that contain a specified amount of a variable		✔	✔
Hexagons for mapping and analysis		✔	✔
Suitability Analysis:  Identify the best location by ranking and scoring numerous sites that meet specific criteria		✔	✔
Trade Area Analysis: Determine the distance or time it takes to reach a user-defined set of criteria, such as a certain percentage of point features or a population count.			✔
Market Penetration: Calculate the market penetration based on the number of customers within an area compared to a demographic variable			✔
Desire Lines: Generate a series of lines from each customer to an associated location.			✔
Huff Model: Spatial analysis tool that calculates the potential of a site location using the distance of candidates from the site and its attractiveness			✔
Territory Solution Toolset: Tools to set up, modify, and manage territories. Build territory hierarchy, manage external variables, and set up constraints			✔  network-based territory creation is not supported when using Online data
Target Marketing: Understand the characteristics of your customers and markets.			✔  not supported when using Online data (nor as part of the ArcGIS Business Analyst Advanced bundle)
ModelBuilder and Customized Tasks:
ModelBuilder: Visual programming language for building geoprocessing workflows (Modeling and Automation)			✔
Customized Workflows and Tasks: Create repeatable tasks			✔
Sharing, Importing, and Exporting:
Export Map to PDF or Image	✔	✔	✔
Export Map/Reports/Infographics to ArcGIS Web Map	✔	✔	✔
Share a Statistical Data Collection to your portal			✔
Share a territory solution as a web layer			✔
Data Setup:
Custom data setup for addresses and geographical areas	✔	✔	✔
Custom data setup for customer, community, and other industry–specific data		✔	✔ via statistical data collection
AI Assistant and User Interface:
UI Customization	✔	✔	✔
Business Analyst Assistant: In-app AI productivity tool that guides users through workflows, assists with in-app interactive guided tours, and answers frequently asked tech support and product documentation questions	✔ This feature is not available in the Business Analyst trial	✔  This feature is not available in the Business Analyst free trial

Table 2. ArcGIS Business Analyst Data 

	ArcGIS Business Analyst Web App Standard	ArcGIS Business Analyst Web App Advanced	ArcGIS Business Analyst Pro
	Uses credits	Uses credits	Includes on-premises data, which does not use credits; uses credits for Esri online data access
USA (link to doc details)
Updated Demographics	✔	✔	✔
Census and ACS	✔	✔	✔
Tapestry Segmentation	✔	✔	✔
Consumer Spending	✔	✔	✔
Market Potential	✔	✔	✔
Retail Demand by Industry	✔	✔	✔
Business Summary	✔	✔	✔
Data Axle Places and POI (US and Canada)	✔	✔	✔
SafeGraph Places and POI (US and Canada)	✔	✔	✔ - credits
Foursquare Places and POI (Global)	✔	✔	✔ - credits
Crime Indexes	✔	✔	✔  Accessed through AGOL using credits, or for on-premises use can be purchased via datasales@esri.com
Traffic Counts	✔	✔	✔  Accessed through AGOL using credits, or for on-premises use can be purchased via datasales@esri.com
International Data (link to doc)
	Uses credits	Uses credits	Uses credits unless on-premises data is available for purchase.
International (Standard) – Michael Bauer Research	✔	✔	✔
International (Advanced/Premium data)	✔	✔	✔
Other Data Sources
ArcGIS Online data (includes ArcGIS Online, Living Atlas)	✔	✔	✔
Marketplace (may require purchase)	✔	✔	✔
Custom Data	✔	✔	✔

 

Table 3. ArcGIS Business Analyst Bundles

	ArcGIS Business Analyst Standard Bundle	ArcGIS Business Analyst Advanced Bundle	ArcGIS Business Analyst Pro Bundle (US Only)	ArcGIS Business Analyst Enterprise (US)
Apps
BA Mobile App	✔	✔	✔	✔ 50 licenses
BA Web App Standard	✔
BA Web App Advanced		✔	✔	✔ 50 licenses
BA Pro		✔	✔	✔ 3 licenses, single use, with MPI data
ArcGIS Pro Basic		✔
Network Analyst Extension for ArcGIS Pro			✔	✔ 3 licenses
ArcGIS Pro North America Locator license for geocoding			✔	✔
User Type
Creator User Type	✔ 1 user	✔ 1 user
Creator User Type (on-premises)			User license needs to be purchased separately, if not already purchased. Works with Professional, or Professional Plus.	✔ 50 users for on-premises; additional licenses required for Esri online access
Professional User Type				✔ 3 licenses, single use, includes ArcGIS Pro Standard
Credits included	6,000	6,000	10,000
Deployment - Powered by ArcGIS Online	✔	✔	✔
Deployment - Powered by ArcGIS Enterprise				✔
Data Consumption (See Table 2 above)	Credits	Credits	Includes on-premises US data, which does not use credits; uses credits for Esri online data access	Includes on-premises US data, which does not use credits. International data: requires additional purchase.

[BillFox]

hi,

do you have a status update for this at ArcGIS Pro v3.3?