ArcGIS Business Analyst Pros and Cons

I like the ability to perform drive time/drive distance analysis on points of interest. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sometimes it runs slowly for unknown reasons. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

ArcGIS offers intelligence based maps and user experience capabilities that provide deep insight into what each business-- or customer-- is looking for. Whatever it is that your business might need to show on a map or to portray in terms of location, ArcGIS offers it and then come. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

However, that's all it offers. There is a limited amount of options available for what one might be capable of accomplishing if they were given the full scape and scale of what you can do with other software like Autocad among others. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I like the simplicity of the application (online- browser only version). I like how there is practically data for any location in the U.S. For the most part is a REALLY well accepted product in our organization, but it does have a few drawbacks. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The first thing I don't like about it is formatting. When building an infographic, there are VERY limited vector icons to use for the infographics. Our organization has to build so many icons to use. Second, there is a major formatting issue with the infographics. We often run a report (infographic) and when we see the product the numbers or formatting cause issues and then we have to go back to the infographic and adjust and then re-run the infographic. This costs us a lot of credits. If there was a way to "re-run" the same infographic and to fix formatting without costing credits that would be extremely helpful. Lastly, the source of all the data is kind of a mystery. I get asked all the time "where do they get this data" and the answer is "i really don't know" if there was some more open communication about the source of these "7,000+" variables, that would be very helpful. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Ease of use, simplicity, easy to learn and train the users. ArcGIS really help perform detailed analysis. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sometimes the support from ArcGIS could be really expensive $ wise. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The different ways to analyze the proximity of locations to each other. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I don't really like that the analysis part is so sensitive Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I really liked that this analyst can be used anywhere and be used for just about any company. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What I disliked about ArcGIS was that it was difficult to navigate at times. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It’s a knowledgeable database where you can do a lot of cool things Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Getting to doing the simple functions you need it for is too hard Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Provides location-based intelligence for planning, site selection, and customer segmentation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Hard to login sometimes , sometimes street address don't show up for all countries. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There is lots of information available to use Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sometimes tables cannot be exported due to size Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The data input is easy to plug in and analyze Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The updates are frequently hard to install Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.