GCS Research Announces New Release of Montana Economic Development Site Selector Solution

GCS Research is pleased to announce the release of a new 2011 Q4 version of the Montana Site Selector http://www.montanasiteselector.com/ . Already implemented with our existing customers across the State of Montana, the latest release includes many important enhancements including: built-in and dynamic layer legends, a new layer transparency tool, support for group layers and a new layers tab for displaying and exploring detailed demographics and market information.

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Welcome to Montana Means Business Site Selector.

Prospective business developers looking for sites in Montana can search available properties in the state of Montana.

Choose from several ESRI Business Analyst Online Reports to learn about demographics, employment, wages, traffic, nearby businesses, and many other business factors in a radius around a site of interest, or an entire city or county. The tools on this site help you select the best site for your business in Montana.

http://www.montanasiteselector.com/

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The release is transparent to the users, agents and admin: nothing is required to continue using the site. All logins and passwords remain the same.

If you have any questions or concerns please contact me via email or phone and we’ll get them addressed as quickly as possible.

The Montana Site Selector http://www.montanasiteselector.com/ now offers a more serviceable and flexible user interface, complete with an advanced help system with links to documents and "how-to" instructional videos. Please take a look at the list of enhancements below. The highlights of this release include:

* New demographics map layer

* Streamlined sorting and searching options for site management in the grid views

* Enhanced analytics including maps of user IP locations

* Reports based upon updated U.S. Census Bureau 2010 data

* More intuitive and straightforward site save function

* New website traffic analytics and detailed statistics on site interest

I hope that you’re excited to work with this latest version and as always we will continue to encourage you to share your insights and suggestions to continue making this the best Site Selection tool available today. If you have any questions or concerns please don’t hesitate to contact me via email or phone and we’ll get them addressed as quickly as possible.

Thanks so much for being part of the Montana Site Selector family! I hope your New Year is off to a great start.

Brynn Bellingham
Solutions Specialist

GCS Research

Office 406-532-3254 • Mobile 406-546-4620 • Direct 406-541-3262

[email protected] • http://www.gcs-research.com

Comprehensive List of Enhancements:

Main Page:

* New Demographics layer tab in map layers

* Updated TOC control that supports layer opacity, built-in legend as well as group layers

* Documents are displayed as clickable links (if the user uploaded a document)

Admin Area:

* Site grid/table is fully sortable and searchable

* Site grid/table is much cleaner and organized

* Admins can list sites by Agent, by Type or All

* Admins can view on a map where site hits are coming from for each individual site

* Site statistics (count, hits, prints) are show in each admin portal for respective EDO

Agent Area:

* Site grid/table is fully sortable and searchable

* Site grid/table is much cleaner and organized

* Agents can view on a map where site hits are coming from for each individual site

* When a site is saved for the first time, the agent stays on the site editor page…before agent was redirected to the site grid/table

Reports:

* All MTSS reports are now based on latest Esri datasets which released this week:

"Esri is the first major data vendor to deliver demographic data based on Census 2010 data in 2010 geographic boundaries. Esri’s 2011/2016 updated demographic data includes current-year estimates and five-year projections of population, households, families, average household size, housing, age, household income, per capita income, and race/ethnicity."

General:

* Performance enhancements in the admin/agent areas

* Icons throughout the site conform to same style

* ‘Help’ page that has links to various help documents/videos

* ‘Portals’ tab is now ‘Regions’

* Other minor bugs and issues collected during Q4