GIS Planning

Website: www.okcedis.com

Results:

• Attraction of Dell Computers customer care expansion office in 2004
• Resulted in over 3,000 new jobs and approximately $4 million in capital investment
• Employment will grow to 4,000
• A cumulative overall economic impact of $764.7 million is expected.
• An additional 500 high-end jobs recently announced will increase this number significantly
• Staff indicate the turnaround time for information delivery is 99% less than a manual process
• Website has generated $5.6 million dollars in value and 3,610% Return on Investment in just two years.  
  

“Dell recently made a major announcement about a location in Oklahoma City.  It is one of the customer care center which they need to propel their long term growth.  They made that decision looking at 122 cities in North and South America.  The critical factor to Dell was their access and sustainability to workforce.  And this particular tool – Zoom Prospector – helped us show them specifically the attributes of the labor force at multiple sites within the central part of the state.  So had we not had this tool I think we would have struggled to try to put those pictures together for Dell.”
- Roy Williams, President of the Greater Oklahoma City Chamber of Commerce

“It [the Oklahoma City ZoomProspector website] was a good tool to use to determine what properties were available. It made the process easier because I could go in there myself and look at it. A picture of the site also helped put a reference point with it...Every search has its unique characteristics. We looked at hotels, places for people to eat, traffic conditions around the site now and at the time we will occupy it.”
- Peter Kaharl, Senior Manager, Corporate Real Estate and Construction, Dell Inc.

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