Minimising Risk

Through GBI, however, your business can be better prepared to take risk-evasive action.

This is because Geographic Business Intelligence can give you an accurate, big-picture view over your business activity – not only as it is currently, but also into the future. Through GIS modelling tools, you can accurately forecast how a whole range of business variables and activities could affect one another over time, rapidly empowering you take steps to lower your risk where necessary.

• When constructing Masdar City, for example, GIS modelling revealed that the planned streets would be too narrow for fire engines to turn around. This enabled the construction team to re-size some of the streets, avoiding later costs and making the city much safer from the outset.
  Read the full ESRI Masdar City case study ›› [1mb, pdf]
• With such a large network of stores (as well as ownership of real estate rented to other organisations) The Co-operative Group has a major portfolio of real estate to manage. GBI is applied throughout this process, including assessing the risks and threats of planning applications.
  Learn how fast, detailed analysis is helping The Co-operative tailor its marketing and maximise store revenue ›› [309kb, pdf]
• Using technology from ESRI (UK), insurer RSA (formerly Royal & SunAlliance) has been able to dispense with traditional postcode based risk assessment, and now verifies the risk within its portfolio with pinpoint accuracy to protect its financial interests. Moreover, it can model the aggregate risk the business is exposed to so that it can be prudent with its decisions.
  Read the full ESRI (UK) RSA case study ›› [492kb, pdf]

Find out more about this technology

• Read about ESRI (UK)’s commerce solutions
• Learn more about Geographic Information Systems