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Fact Sheet

 

What is GIS Planning?


GIS Planning is the world leader in online economic development solutions.  Over 13,000 U.S. cities in 43 states are served by GIS Planning’s Geographic Information System (GIS) Software, which provides real estate, demographic and industry data to help businesses and site selection professionals through powerful online mapping analysis.


GIS Planning is the official and exclusive partner for online property listings, demographics and online mapping products and services of the International Economic Development Council (IEDC).  Headquartered in San Francisco, GIS Planning has been included on the Inc. 5000 list of fastest-growing companies in the U.S. for the past four years.

 

What is ZoomProspector.com?


GIS Planning invented ZoomProspector.com, a publicly accessible corporate site selection website that allows businesses to conduct national searches of communities and commercial properties that match their unique criteria, at no cost to the company.


ZoomProspector.com is embedded into national media outlets visited by site selectors and expanding businesses including SiteSelection.com, BusinessFacilities.com and BXJonline.com and has been featured in numerous media outlets including Forbes, Fortune, Bloomberg BusinessWeek and The New York Times.   


What is GIS Planning’s Product?


GIS Planning’s ZoomProspector Enterprise is a Software as a Service (SaaS) web application providing comprehensive information to help new, expanding, and relocating businesses find optimal locations for success in our client communities.  Using Geographic Information System (GIS) Software, our website tools provide access to in-depth information, including powerful real estate search, demographic analysis, industry reports, and dynamic mapping tools.


The websites are built upon proprietary GIS Planning and Google Maps technology, which offer state-of-the-art site selection analysis capabilities.  GIS Planning offers more affordable “Local Editions” of ZoomProspector Enterprise for communities located within state clients.


What is the Benefit of GIS Planning’s Web Applications?


New research from U.C. Berkeley shows that over 97% of initial site selection screening is conducted on-line now, so it’s critical that communities offer site selectors and businesses a comprehensive, interactive website with available properties and demographic information to remain competitive.  By providing the right information online, EDOs can provide themselves a 150% advantage when businesses are evaluating a long-list of locations.


GIS Planning websites simplify an economic developer’s daily work by allowing them to quickly respond to clients’ needs by providing clear and accurate customized data.  Our research also eliminates the need for clients to subscribe individually to multiple data/report services, saving time and money.


Why GIS Planning?


As the inventor of GIS websites for economic development organizations more than a decade ago, GIS Planning’s technology remains the market leader and is recognized as the industry standard.  GIS Planning currently serves the majority of the 100 largest cities in the U.S., and its technology is implemented in 43 states.  Approximately 95% of economic development organizations that hire a vendor to implement a site selection GIS tool choose GIS Planning.


GIS Planning provides best-in-class technology, as well as important value-added services for our clients which include exposure on ZoomProspector.com, Facebook applications, partnerships with leading site selection media and economic development associations, as well as marketing support through ongoing professional development educational programs focused on Internet technology and media.

Here are the top reasons clients choose GIS Planning:


 
  • As the first to market, GIS Planning invented the GIS/economic development space nearly 13 years ago.
  • GIS Planning has built a national, patent-protected site selection website, www.ZoomProspector.com.
  • Because our technology is widely used, site selectors and business decision-makers are familiar with our user-friendly application, and know how to navigate it.
  • GIS Planning is vertically integrated and does not outsource any element of our product, which means the end-user experience is seamless.
  • As part of our packages, we offer technical support for clients as well as professional website maintenance at a Class A server facility in Silicon Valley, connected through a CDN network of our own servers across the nation.
  • We provide much deeper and richer data and guarantee more functionality and power for the same price compared to any other offering.
  • Our products are built for economic developers by economic developers: 80% of our non-programming staff, including our CEO, have worked for economic development organizations.
  • Our client websites are constantly being upgraded to take advantage of the latest tools based on feedback from 200+ clients and thousands of end users. Because of our large client base, the cost of upgrades per client is built into our service offering.
  • We are currently offering EDOs integration into Facebook, and mobile versions of our applications that can be viewed on smartphones.