Available with Business Analyst license.
Many tools and workflows in ArcGIS Business Analyst Pro make use of authoritative Esri data exposed through local or online Business Analyst data sources. The types of data include:
- Demographic, socioeconomic, and behavioral data
- Geographic boundaries
- Business and points of interest data
- Street network data
- Geocoding data
- Segmentation data
Each Business Analyst data source is a combination of different types of spatially related data and metadata for a specific country or territory. Some Business Analyst data sources provide only a subset of the data listed above.
Business Analyst data source
Business Analyst tools and workflows use the currently selected data source to perform analyses. Only one Business Analyst data source can be selected at a time, but you can also temporarily switch the data source during a geoprocessing tool session. To learn more, see Select the current Business Analyst data source.
There are two main types of Business Analyst data sources:
- Local datasets—Datasets accessed on a local drive or through a local network path
- Online data—Online GeoEnrichment services accessed through ArcGIS Online or ArcGIS Enterprise
Local datasets
A local Business Analyst dataset is a set of specially formatted, linked, and licensed data and metadata files. A local dataset is typically a single folder in the file system containing data components and configuration files. To get access to a local Business Analyst dataset, you must copy its files to a single local drive or a shared network folder.
- To learn how to set up a local Business Analyst dataset, see Set up a local Business Analystdataset.
- If you already have a local Business Analyst dataset set up and want to select it as the data source, see Select a local Business Analyst dataset as the data source.
- All Business Analyst datasets include a Documentation folder containing a variable and report list. You can use the contents of this folder to learn more about the variables in the local dataset.
Online data
When you set the Business Analyst data source to online data, Business Analyst consumes data through a portal connection, using credits. Data is accessed in the following ways:
- GeoEnrichment variables and points of interest data are accessed through the ArcGIS GeoEnrichment Service.
- Streets data is accessed through the ArcGIS World Routing Service.
- Geocoding data is accessed through the ArcGIS World Geocoding Service.
Online data can work with either ArcGIS Online or ArcGIS Enterprise. To learn how to access an online GeoEnrichment service, see Select a portal or ArcGIS Online data source.