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Workforce development professionals must make a measurable impact and drive program innovation. Successful teams understand the power of targeted outreach, embracing business health and employment dynamics to stay ahead of constant business change.
Powered by Dun & Bradstreet and labor market data, EconoVue blends data visualization, interactive mapping, and geo-based analysis to deliver forward-looking intelligence.
Key insights include employer health and risk, industry, and location-specific employment and business trends. Who is at high risk for closure or layoff? Who is growing or hiring?
EconoVue data, insights, and analysis platform unlocks a perspective on the employer universe, enabling a data-driven outreach and engagement for better program success.
Economic development organizations need predictive business and industry health data to anticipate business change over the horizon. In collaboration with Dun & Bradstreet’s national and local database, EconoVue employs cutting-edge data visualization, interactive mapping, and geo-based analysis to empower economic development organizations with the foresight to target the right business.
Business Attraction. Bringing in new employers creates jobs and expands the local revenue base. There are more than 17 million active business locations in the U.S.
EconoVue enables you to identify and target business prospects by size, industry, financial health, and geography, enabling you to export a curated shortlist of prospect businesses for focused pursuit.
Business Retention. Protecting and supporting existing businesses is fundamental to economic stability. Agencies must engage with businesses proactively, offering support and encouraging collaboration through grants, microloans, training, and networking.
EconoVue transforms data into actionable insights by visualizing demographic, industry, business health, and risk segments to better target businesses needing assistance.
Business Expansion. Expansion and growth hinge on providing resources, education, and funding opportunities such as grants and microloans.
EconoVue’s partnership with Dun & Bradstreet enables you to target segments of the business community by size, industry, and business health to determine program eligibility.
Traditional planners include business and employment models, updated every five years, to predict workforce concentrations in 30 years, but often rely on incomplete and outdated data.
EconoVue delivers a comprehensive view of community employer and workforce data, offering site-specific business information such as addresses, industry codes, and on-site employment totals.
Our interactive dashboard allows for unparalleled visualization by transportation geo boundaries. From statewide perspectives to regional districts, counties, MPOs, ZIP codes, and census tracts, EconoVue ensures a detailed and insightful analysis of the transportation landscape.
Current snapshot of business and workforce data, allows time-series trend analysis to display changes in volume and location of workforce concentrations over time.
Long-term trending data enables future development forecasting, while quarterly reviews enable refinement due to acute events with lasting change impact.
Better insight drives better decisions. EconoVue™ users rely on complete, timely, and accurate information on businesses, employment, and industry information. EconoVue™ delivers the best commercially available business information, augmented by additional data, through an agile, intuitive platform designed specifically for its intended users. Simply put, we built a great information and research platform for your specific needs and loaded it with the best available data for your specific needs. Having more and better data at your fingertips, in an intuitive platform that lets you ask, change and re-ask questions of the data makes you more informed, more focused and more effective in your programmatic efforts.
EconoVue™ provides a data reservoir that is deep and wide. Through our partnership with Dun & Bradstreet, EconoVue™ provides site-level information on over 17 million U.S. business locations, including standard identity and demographic information around size, location, and operations. EconoVue™ also provides specialty business data, including business health and change dynamics data, executive contact details, custom geo-data, jobs, labor and occupation data, and time-series trend data in key dimensions. For a more detailed list of all available data, please contact us directly for more info.
Great question, and we like how you’re thinking! EconoVue™ costs more than a loaf of bread but less than an airplane. EconoVue™ can be licensed according to geo or economic footprint, as tight as a city or local planning region, or as broadly as an entire state. The scope of geo coverage, data, and user distribution all influence costs, so we can’t answer that here. However, that’s a conversation we’d love to have, so please get in touch with us directly for more info.
Anyone needing better insight and analytical intelligence around their economy, businesses, industries, and employment data benefits from EconoVue™. Our primary users are government agencies whose primary mission involves business engagement: Workforce Development, Economic Development, Transportation Planners, and Disaster Planning/Emergency Response agencies. Consultants, non-profits, educational institutions, and economic researchers also use the data available in EconoVue™.
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EconoVue™’s uniqueness lies in three interconnected factors: 1. EconoVue™ provides access to a comprehensive multi-source business database available nowhere else. 2. The EconoVue™ platform is “designed with intent”: built for specific users’ specific needs with specific public-sector agency responsibilities. 3. EconoVue™ is agile. Data without utility is just a massive spreadsheet. EconoVue™ brings data utility to users’ fingers instantly, intuitively guiding users’ questions and delivering answers.
EconoVue™ is modular yet complete: Purposefully designed with multiple focused apps to allow diverse research with variable granularity, EconoVue™ delivers complete access to all apps with each subscription. There are no “add-on” components with “add-on” costs. When you’re in EconoVue™, you’re all in.
OverVue™ provides a comprehensive lens: This interactive dashboard enables quick and agile manipulation of significant data points (geo, industry, key sectors, and business health) to display snapshot analyses based on user criteria and then manipulate those variables to track changes over time and make data-driven projections. Dynamic, interconnected, interactive graphs show how local counties or workforce areas connect to the bigger picture within your state.
RegionVue™ ties occupation and jobs data to time-series D&B employer data aggregated by industry sector and geography: Animated bubble charts and graphs let users quickly assess key occupations in emerging sectors, track sector-wide hiring trends and training needs, and evaluate salary and education zone data. Identifying occupations with higher salaries and lower barriers to entry reveals factors that may affect hiring, workforce location, economic development opportunities, and commuter traffic demands.
ProspectVue™ is integrated with both OverVue™ and RegionVue™, allowing users to go deep and specific into their targeted research. ProspectVue™ allows users to dynamically adjust their research criteria using all of EconoVue™’s data variables of core and specialty data to generate very precisely focused outputs, including predictive indicators of future risk, stability, growth, or contraction. Map-based, ProspectVue™ graphically displays the location and concentration of businesses and employment based on users’ live queries. When your use case and data needs to demand a specific targeted business or type, ProspectVue™ can drive down to a single business and provide live access to expanded research reports from EconoVue™ and Dun & Bradstreet.
LocalVue™ is a visual business mapping analytics tool that spatially displays employer and employment industry trends by multiple geographic boundaries). It dynamically generates current and time-series sector trend reports for any selected region. Data are portrayed in an interactive thematic mapping GUI to visually compare business and employment data among regions.
Yes! EconoVue™’s business data are supplemented by labor market resources, including the BLS Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages, providing a time series of salary information tied to NAICS, geography, and D&B aggregated employment information. CareerOneStop.org provides dynamic information about Training Providers in any location, and Indeed.com provides up-to-date job listings for any selected business, occupation, and region.
At EconoVue™, data drives our own decisions as well. We conduct regular data quality checks, external research and comparative analyses to ensure we are providing the most complete and accurate data we can. We chose Dun & Bradstreet as our business data partner because of their own high standards of data accuracy, completeness and maintenance. We’re equally selective in our other data sources and feeds, public or private. For a more detailed discussion on data quality, please contact us directly.
EconoVue™ access is provided on annual or multi-year platform and data use subscriptions. Individual user access is browser-based via ID and password.
EconoVue™ collects and provides data from multiple sources. Our core comprehensive and detailed business site data database is refreshed each quarter with an updated feed from Dun & Bradstreet. Additional data components are updated on varying schedules, including weekly, bi-weekly, and monthly, to provide a dynamic and current intelligence resource, allowing our users to see their economic and business communities as they change.
Right behind the EconoVue™ platform, our Customer Education Team delivers outstanding service to users. New Customers receive dedicated onboarding training sessions just for their users, and additional follow-up groups or 1:1 training are available for new users (or users wanting a refresher). We deliver an ongoing curriculum of regularly scheduled live training and knowledge sessions for users several times each month, augmented with specialized sessions around new product enhancements, new data additions, and user-driven best practice and use-case sharing sessions facilitated by our Customer Education Team.
Definitely! EconoVue™ is designed to help users “thin the haystack” by using our vast array of data options, selectors, and filters to query and refine their search efforts to identify a precisely targeted set of businesses. Each of the apps in EconoVue™ lets users export those outputs into Excel files for further use, analysis, or integration with users’ internal datasets.
EconoVue™ does not have any integrated “connectors” to other platforms. However, EconoVue™’s data export feature allows users to extract their refined lists of businesses, and that data can then be imported into other applications such as specialized mapping platforms, modeling applications, or CRM systems.
EconoVue™ is a comprehensive platform, with all apps (interactive analysis dashboards, business and industry research apps, and jobs & employment data) provided to all users. “Which app” depends on your particular project and data needs of the day. Like changing lenses on a microscope, EconoVue™ users move fluidly across apps based on the breadth or precision of insight needed.
The foundational core of EconoVue™’s business and employment data is the Dun & Bradstreet business database. We augment that business data with labor market resources and specialty data from State & Federal sources such as DOL, ETA, FEMA, SBA, and state workforce agencies, as well as jobs data from CareerOneStop.org and Indeed.com. For a more detailed discussion of the data behind EconoVue™, please contact us directly.
Because of the size and volume of data sources synthesized in EconoVue™, the standard level of business information is robust, including data on demographics, employment and industry, business health or risk indicators, corporate family data, diversity and geo-location info, and more. EconoVue™ also produces several standard reports for more detailed and content-specific views on individual businesses, such as our Business Disruption Report, Corporate Linkage Map, and Financial History Graph. EconoVue™ also directly connects to Dun & Bradstreet so that users can extract a live D&B Comprehensive Report on businesses.
We are all about providing answers, information, and insight. At EconoVue™, we thrive on solving problems through the power of data. Challenges excite us, and we’re always ready to tackle them head-on. You’re in the right place if you’re seeking unparalleled insights and innovative solutions. Ready to experience the EconoVue difference?
EconoVue™ is your window to business and workforce insight. The Urban Explorer, Inc. is the company behind the insight.
Founded in Silicon Valley in 1999, and now based in Arlington, VA, The Urban Explorer, Inc. is a woman-owned small business with a single mission: to help our clients visualize data and gain actionable insight into the past, present and future of their local and regional economies and workforce.
Originally founded as a boutique consulting firm designing interactive GIS tools for economic development, land use planning and urban design, we heard a common theme from our customers: “Help us analyze today and help us predict tomorrow.” We found ourselves replicating the same steps of geospatial economic analysis studies, so rather than reinvent the wheel every time, we decided to invent it just once and automate the process via a single platform, and EconoVue™ was born.
The millions of businesses that comprise the U.S. economy and workforce are constantly in motion. Our agile approach to solution design is highly collaborative with the “end-user”, constantly evolving to meet the growing needs and creativity of our clients as they try to extract insight from data chaos.
Working with our data partners, public sources and our great collaborative clients, we continue to expand EconoVue™ to meet new needs, including Economic Development, Transportation and Custom Analysis. Our design philosophy is to produce innovative, actionable data insight tools, in a modular application platform that is iterative and easily adaptive to meet the ever-changing information needs of our clients.
