Trade Area Analyst Trade Area Analyst™ is a full-featured and easy to use mapping and demographic retrieval system for retail real estate professionals. We started with MapInfo Professional® as a core technology and customized it for retail real estate professionals. The result is an easy to use decision support system, with added tools for retail site selection and analysis.

GIS PowerAn amazingly flexible system, Trade Area Analyst allows you to work with data you created in-house, data you license from another vendor, or data we provide from our partners. You can have peace of mind, knowing that your valuable data resides safely in Microsoft SQL Server databases.

Find and add any location to a map instantly using your choice of three geocoding engines. Create trade areas using your choice of two drive time engines, simple rings, or user-defined polygons. For quick access, you can bookmark the sites you visit often. Our file management structure makes it easy to organize your projects, access layers and sites that you commonly use, turn on aerial photos with a single click and switch between projects at the push of a button.

Knowledge Amplification Trade Area Analyst enhances your analytical skills by enabling you to utilize virtually any data source, visualize the data in a variety of ways, create customized reports, and even invent your own new tools. TAS Retrieval, our proprietary demographic retrieval algorithm, makes it possible to find and act upon the opportunities that others are missing.

The Whole Picture Create flexible, professional visuals that convey exactly the right ideas to decision makers. High-quality maps and Excel reports eliminate confusion by describing complex situations in a useful and intuitive manner. Show where your target customers are at a glance with crisp range style, dot density, or scaled symbol thematic maps. Explore and visualize demographic data from multi-gigabyte databases and create lifestyle segmentation maps that describe consumer population characteristics. Use predefined map layouts or customize your own. Include your company’s logo on layouts and reports. Show off with curved labeling and custom map symbols.Trade Area Analyst supports output in a variety of file formats, including Adobe PDF, Excel, and SQL database.

Flatten Your Learning Curve You don’t need to be a GIS wizard because our wizards streamline the process of conducting market research studies and generating sales forecasts for proposed stores for you. You’ll have the basics down in 30 minutes using the Quick Start Guide. Our online help system is ever evolving and our support staff will respond to you right away by phone or email if you need further assistance. We even install the software for you, by remotely connecting to your PC.

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