CHAINXY

Data types available: Business Locations

Who is ChainXY?

ChainXY is a data solution company that provides retail and restaurant locational data to help curate chain data for retail and real estate professionals conducting market research. ChainXY knows that data fuels the real estate analytics engine, and ChainXY is a data solution that provides quality data at a reasonable price.

About ChainXY Data

ChainXY provides business locational data in a variety of easily manipulatable formats. The company’s cost-effective solution provides data in common data and spatial formats. ChainXY provides insights into thousands of retail and restaurant, and service chains covering the United States and Canada.

• 4,500 chains in the United States and Canada
• Minimum of quarterly updates or better for all chains in the United States & Canada
• Through its map-based interface, users can suggest point location corrections that will be vetted by the QA team. Once approved, a location’s coordinates will be immediately corrected and perpetually preserved.
• Directly connect to ChainXY’s data service from SiteSeer

Learn more at https://chainxy.com.

APPLIED GEOGRAPHIC SOLUTIONS (AGS)

Data types available: Demographics

Who is Applied Geographic Solutions?

Applied Geographic Solutions, Inc. (AGS) is a leading supplier of premium quality demographic and marketing databases.

About AGS Demographic & Business Dimensions Data

The Estimates and Projections (E&P) database is the core data offering of AGS, covering the essentials of demographics including population, household, dwelling, labor force, and income statistics. Most analytical applications require at the very least a sampling of this core data in conjunction with more specialized datasets that AGS offers.

The E&P database covers a broad range of demographic characteristics for the current year, and 5-year projections. Variables include:

• Population by household type (family, non-family), group quarters type (institutional, non-institutional), age (19 age breaks), age and sex (38 breaks), sex, race, Hispanic origin, race and Hispanic origin, marital status, and educational achievement; Households by type (family, non-family), size of household, age of head of household, household type (e.g. lone parent male family with children); Average Household Size; Length of Residence; Total Vehicles Available; Households by number of vehicles available; and Households by number of vehicles available and tenure
• Labor Force: Employment Status and Employment Status by sex
• Income: Aggregate Income (family, non-family households, group quarters); Household income distribution (15 breaks); Family income distribution (15 breaks); Extended Upper-Income distributions; Median and average income (family, household); Age of head of household by income; Median income by age of head of household
• Dwellings: Vacant Dwellings and Tenure

Learn more at www.appliedgeographic.com.

AGGDATA

Data types available: Business Locations

Who is AggData?

AggData provides accurate, up-to-date, and actionable geo-location data. In 2017, AggData was acquired by Market Service Inc., parent company of Accounts Receivables Management Solutions (ARMS).

About AggData Data

AggData is short for aggregate data, which means a set of data that is collected together in one place and is delivered in the form of a list of records where each record has details about a specific object in the group. Examples of datasets could be complete lists of retail store locations or geographic country information. This information is often available to the public via the Internet, but AggData compiles it into an easily accessible and workable file.

Features:

• AggData’s retail location database includes more than 6,000 monitored companies and 5.5 million total locational records
• AggData maintains the largest international database, with coverage in roughly 250 countries and territories
• AggData implements a proprietary four-tier Quality Assurance process that includes final verification by a team of in-house, industry-specific analysts
• Future store closings
• Historical store activity data
• Real-time API data feed
• Extremely accurate and analyst supported data
• Derived from primary sources with rigorous quality vetting
• Up-to-data information updated monthly and quarterly

Learn more at www.aggdata.com.

BING MAPS

Data types available: Mapping/Geography

Who is Bing Maps?

Bing Maps is a web mapping service provided as a part of Microsoft's Bing suite of search engines and powered by the Bing Maps for Enterprise framework.

About Bing Maps Data

• Global aerial and satellite imagery – Bing Maps aerial and satellite imagery has global coverage imagery up to 30cm/pixel resolution.
• Streetside imagery – Bing Maps provides 360-degrees of panoramic views that allow exploration of locations at street-level.
• Offline maps – Download maps for offline use.
• 3D maps – Features high-resolution 3D models of over 250 cities in 11 countries.
• Static map service – Includes a REST service, which can be used to retrieve images of maps. This can be useful when generating reports, embedding in emails or in situations where a fully interactive map isn’t needed.
• Autosuggest – Provides suggestions as someone types a location in a search box.
• Forward and reverse geocoding – Locate where an address or place is, or find an address or place that is at a specific location.
• Batch geocoding – The Bing Spatial Data Services provides a service for passing in up to 200,000 rows of data at once to be forward or reverse geocoded. The service will then take this data and process it on the Bing servers and return the data as a single file. This can significantly reduce the time, bandwidth and the number of requests an application would use to geocode large volumes of data.

Learn more at https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/maps.

BUILDCENTRAL

Data types available: Planned Construction

Who is BuildCentral?

BuildCentral is part of BCI Central and the Byggfakta Group, with global operations spanning the U.S., Canada, Europe, Australia, New Zealand, and Southeast Asia. BuildCentral is headquartered in Chicago, IL. The company collects data for planned real estate developments in verticals including commercial real estate, single-family and multi-family real estate, medical, hotel and retail/grocery developments, and the global renewable energy and mining sectors. 

About BuildCentral Data

BuildCentral relies upon 11,000 digital data sources to find construction projects in the early planning stages. The data undergoes a machine learning process to refine collection methods, and a team of human researchers review and publish the information into the data set every day. 

Data accuracy and precision are important to BuildCentral, and the company has two members of the research team review every project prior to publishing. Every month, data is reviewed for completeness, timeliness, and accuracy. 

Learn more at https://www.buildcentral.com

COMPETITIVE ANALYTICS PROFESSIONALS (CAP)

Data types available: Shopping Centers

Who is Competitive Analytics Professionals (CAP)?

CAP, LLC provides comprehensive, location data for retail, restaurant, mobile insights and shopping centers.

About CAP Data

CAP provides three types of products:

• Restaurant and retail – ReCAP data products provide CAP with the ability to offer quality retail and restaurant location databases at an affordable price. By assigning multiple categories to each location, and through the use of proprietary data verifying & QA process, CAP is able to offer the most comprehensive location databases in the marketplace today.
• Shopping centers - CAP is the leading provider of shopping center data, with over 3 billion in GLA tracked. Over 41,000 shopping centers tracked in the US & Canada, CAP has been providing the best shopping center data set in the market. Solution providers, real estate developers and major retailers & restaurants have been using CAP Shopping Centers for over nine years.
• Mobile – CAP Mobile Insight provides instant results providing when people visit a shopping center, by day, day-part and over time.
• CAP has geo-fenced over twenty thousand CAP Shopping Centers to capture when consumers have entered a center, where did they come from and where did they go along the way. With over a billion observations a week this big data provides massive insight into the consumer.
• CAP has generated trade areas for 20,000+ shopping centers that show a true trade area around centers of interest.
• CAP captures real data generated by mobile device locations.

Learn more at https://www.caplocations.com.

CHAIN STORE GUIDE

Data types available: Shopping Centers

Who is Chain Store Guide (CSG)?

Chain Store Guide (CSG) is a leading provider of comprehensive and definitive retail and foodservice intelligence to businesses around the world. Chain Store Guide details all major retailers, restaurants, distributors and wholesalers in the United States and Canada with contact information on over 746,000 establishments.

About Chain Store Guide Data

Chain Store Guide data is compiled by its staff of editors and research professionals. While some companies simply compile data from sources such as the Yellow Pages, Chain Store Guide researches every company profiled. Their staff contacts companies by phone, mail or email to verify the information and ensure that data is accurate and current.

Chain Store Guide provides data in print directory, online web application and customized database formats. Chain Store Guide data is used by manufacturers, suppliers, service providers, brokers, real estate professionals, retailers, analysts, consultants and other professionals seeking to gain insight into retail and foodservice markets in the U.S. and Canada. Since 1933, Chain Store Guide has been the leading data source for in-depth information on retailers, restaurants, and food service operations.

Learn more at https://www.chainstoreguide.com/.

CLARITAS

Data types available: Lifestyle Segmentation

Who is Claritas?

Claritas is a leading data company that helps brands identify and target their best customers. Its unique

methodology, which combines sought after data resources with direct, original consumer research, is

proven to help marketers find their best customers faster. Claritas products and services help paint a 360-degree picture of customers or prospects using unique behavior-based segments. Through Claritas’ core product, PRIZM® Premier Segmentation, clients can better understand where their consumers live,

work, play and shop for more effective and efficient marketing across all channels.

About Claritas PRIZM Premier Data

PRIZM Premier combines demographic, consumer behavior, and geographic data to help marketers find and engage their customers and prospects. PRIZM Premier defines households with 68 demographically and behaviorally distinct segments discerning consumers’ likes, dislikes, lifestyles and purchase behaviors in a way that’s contextual and easy to communicate and activate.

PRIZM Premier's 68 segments are defined according to socioeconomic rank, including characteristics such as income, education, occupation and home value as well as 11 life stage groups and 14 social groups.

PRIZM Premier Social Groups are based on urbanization and socioeconomic rank. PRIZM Premier Lifestage Groups are based on age, socioeconomic rank, and the presence of children at home.

Learn more at https://www.claritas.com/.

DATA AXLE

Data types available: Business Locations

Who is Data Axle?

Data Axle, formerly known as Infogroup, is a leading provider of data and real-time business intelligence solutions for enterprise, small business, nonprofit and political organizations. The company's solutions enable clients to acquire and retain customers, and enhance their user experiences through proprietary business and consumer data, artificial intelligence/machine learning models, innovative software applications and expert professional services. Data Axle's cloud-based platform delivers data and data updates in real-time via APIs, CRM integrations, SaaS, and managed services.

About Data Axle Data

Business Data | Data Axle offers a comprehensive view of tens of millions of businesses across the United States and Canada. With nearly 300 data attributes, the Data Axle dataset offers a complete view of almost every business in the United States and Canada - from the Fortune 500 down to mom-and-pop shops and work-from-home freelancers. Business records are updated in real time and features rich information including street address, phone number, hours of operation, number of employees, online presence, SIC code, business contacts, and much more.

Learn more at www.data-axle.com. 

DEVONSHIRE

Data types available: Demographics

Who is Devonshire?

Devonshire Associates Ltd. provides data to the nation’s leading media, retail, real estate and financial services firms. The company offers a robust Demographic Data Series as well as an Econometric Data Series that measures business and retail activity down to the neighborhood level. Its Business dmPLUS™ Database provides complete information on over 20 million business locations and its Consumer dmPLUS™ Database contains information on more than 124 million consumer households.

About Devonshire Data

• Demographic Data Series - Devonshire’s Demographic Data Series includes an extensive supply of core demographic variables, offering current-year estimates and 5-year projections of population, households, income, labor force, and housing.
• Econometric Data Series - Devonshire's Econometric Data Series marks the difference between potential and reality. Users get a full picture of consumer and business spending and actual sales activity in any market.
• Business Data Series – Devonshire's Business Data Series includes comprehensive information on every business location in the United States. Devonshire’s Retail MarketPoint™ platform holds data on over 40,000 shopping centers and 3,000 regional and national retail chains. The Business dmPLUS™ file contains inclusive business location data.
• Consumer Data Series –Devonshire's Consumer Data Series provides information about consumer households.
• SEA-RCH.com – SEA-RCH™ offers a range of products that have been designed specifically for media planners who must determine the most effective local search placements for their advertising. SEA-RCH™ is used by hundreds of publishers, agencies and advertisers who rely on its licensed media data, software and proprietary media planning services.

Learn more at http://devonline.com/.

DIRECTORY OF MAJOR MALLS

Data types available: Shopping Centers

Who is Directory of Major Malls?

Directory of Major Malls/ShoppingCenters.com is the leading source for comprehensive, accurate shopping center data. More than just malls, the DMM database covers the full spectrum of retail project types, offering access to the most comprehensive data on enclosed malls, open-air community centers, power centers, value-retail / outlet centers (approx. 200,000+ sq. ft.), lifestyle/specialty/mixed-use of any size, and entertainment.

Since the late 1970s, DMM has evolved from a print directory into an online source of retail data with robust query functions, integrated mapping tools, custom reports, contact lists and licensed datasets.

About Directory of Major Malls Data

DMM data is used for planning, investing, marketing, marketing analysis of publicly traded companies, REITs, revenue trending studies, economic market studies, and more.

DMM data is leveraged by major retailers, specialty and seasonal retailers, owners and developers, service providers, investors and financial firms including hedge funds, global investment funds and bank groups, leasing agents and brokers, architectural, design and construction firms, and others.

• 8,467 shopping centers across the U.S. and Canada
• 318,771 tenant locations
• 42,335 VIP contacts for leasing agents, landlords, managers and marketing directors
• 530,296 data point updates in just the last year alone
• 5,924 site/leasing plans
• 3,630,642,958 square feet of retail GLA

Learn more at https://shoppingcenters.com.

ENVIRONICS

Data types available: Demographics, Business Locations

Who is Environics?

Environics is one of North America’s leading data, analytics and marketing services companies. The company serves a broad range of private, not-for-profit, and public sector institutions.

About Environics Data

Environics has 45 databases offering more than 30,000 variables that help users connect with consumers.

• Demographic – Environics offers five proprietary databases built from multiple sources.
• Segmentation – Environics has four off-the-shelf segmentation systems, including PRIZM, a Canadian consumer segmentation system.
• Mobile Analytics – Access mobile data through ENVISION.
• Financial – Choose from 10 databases, including WealthScapes, a comprehensive Canadian financial database, for spending and investment behavior.
• Psychographic – Psychographic data will allow users to develop communications and merchandising strategies to engage customers.
• Health – Health-related data as well as information about Canadians’ attitudes and behaviors towards health care.
• Behavioral – Environics partners with leading data and survey providers to produce 12 databases that offer insights on a range of topics, from media and shopping habits to attitudes on charitable giving and the environment.
• Location – View map displays with points of interest—retail locations, schools, waterways, parks and bus terminals—that can be added onto thematic layers.
• Canadian business facts – These customer contact databases will help users identify prospects to contact by telephone, direct mail or email, update customer records, establish relationships with new customers, and target new homeowners for products/services.
• Business – The databases offered can help determine a site’s retail opportunity, estimate a new store’s sales potential and identify business prospects for targeted marketing.
• Variables lists – Access the Canadian variables lists library.

Learn more at https://www.environicsanalytics.com.

GFK MRI

Data types available: Consumer/Psychographics

Who is GfK MRI?

MRI is a division of GfK. MRI and Simmons Research have now combined in a joint venture to be called MRI-Simmons.  The JV will be co-owned by GfK and SymphonyAI Group, with GfK as the majority partner.

GfK is a trusted source of relevant market and consumer information that enables its clients to make smarter decisions. GfK delivers vital global insights matched with local market intelligence from more than 100 countries. GfK turns big data into smart data, enabling its clients to improve their competitive edge and enrich consumers’ experiences and choices. 

About GfK MRI Data

MRI is a leading provider of media and consumer research in the United States. Its Survey of the American Consumer® is used in the majority of US media and marketing plans and has long been the industry standard for magazine audience ratings. Through over 24,000 in-person interviews each year, MRI captures in-depth information on consumer media choices, attitudes, and consumption of products and services in nearly 600 categories.

For the past 20 years, MRI’s national study and reporting services have been accredited by the MRC, which assures that audience measurement services are valid, reliable, and effective. As part of its annual accreditation process, the MRC conducts rigorous audits of MRI’s methodology, fieldwork, analytics, and data handling systems. MRI is the only service of its kind to maintain this level of quality.

Learn more at https://mri.gfk.com.

GOOGLE MAPS

Data types available: Mapping/Geography

Who is Google Maps?

Google Maps is a web mapping service developed by Google. It offers satellite imagery, aerial photography, street maps, 360° panoramic views of streets (Street View), real-time traffic conditions, and route planning for traveling by foot, car, bicycle and air (in beta), or public transportation (Source: Wikipedia).

About Google Maps Data

Street View, by Google Maps, is a virtual representation of surroundings on Google Maps, consisting of millions of panoramic images. Street View’s content comes from two sources - Google and contributors.

Learn more at https://www.google.com/maps

INRIX

Data types available: Traffic Counts and Drive Times

Who is INRIX?

Founded in 2005, INRIX pioneered the practice of managing traffic by analyzing data not just from road sensors, but also from vehicles. This breakthrough approach enabled INRIX to become one of the leading providers of data and insight into how people move around the world. INRIX delivers innovative products for the automotive and transportation industries such as real-time parking and traffic information and solutions that facilitate the safe testing and deployment of autonomous vehicles. 

About INRIX Volume Profile Data

INRIX Volume Profile data provides the historical data file of derived average count of vehicles by day of week and hour of day in 15-minute increments. Attributes include segment by segment typical count data for each 15 minutes of each day. 

OPENSTREETMAP

Data types available: Points of Interest

Who is OpenStreetMap?

OpenStreetMap powers map data on thousands of web sites, mobile apps, and hardware devices

About OpenStreetMap Data

OpenStreetMap is built by a community of mappers that contribute and maintain data about roads, trails, cafés, railway stations, and much more, all over the world.

• Local Knowledge - OpenStreetMap emphasizes local knowledge. Contributors use aerial imagery, GPS devices, and low-tech field maps to verify that OSM is accurate and up to date.
• Community Driven - OpenStreetMap's community is diverse, passionate, and growing every day. OpenStreetMap’s contributors include enthusiast mappers, GIS professionals, engineers running the OSM servers, humanitarians mapping disaster-affected areas, and many more.
• Open Data – OpenStreetMap is open data: anyone is free to use it for any purpose as long as they credit OpenStreetMap and its contributors. See the Copyright and License page for details.

Learn more at https://www.openstreetmap.org/about

PLACEIQ

Data types available: Mobile Phone Activity

Who is PLACEIQ?

Ten years ago, PlaceIQ invented location intelligence for the marketing and media space. Today, we are the leading data and technology company that helps businesses leverage location-based insights to connect with and understand audiences.

About PlaceIQ Data

PlaceIQ ingests and processes billions of movement and mapping data points into verified visit data. This proprietary visitation data helps users analyze consumer movement, develop smarter marketing strategies, and drive real-world consumer actions.

With PlaceIQ data, consumers can understand the cross-shopping behaviors of store visitors on a national or regional scale, analyze audiences who visit their brick-and-mortar stores, and understand competitive trends and behaviors of shoppers who visitor competitor locations.

Learn more at www.placeiq.com. 

Planned Grocery

Data types available: Location

Who is Beitz and Daigh Geographics? 

Planned Grocery is created by Beitz and Daigh Geographics, a data and software development company focused on the geospatial needs of the commercial real estate industry.

About Planned Grocery Data

Planned Grocery offers data to grocery store chains and retailers that commonly locate in or near grocery-anchored shopping centers as they assess site opportunities. Users can monitor grocery competition and improve their site selection for new grocery stores.

The Columbia, South Carolina-based data provider tracks more than 200 national, regional and local grocery store brands around the United States and more than 1,200 stores slated for future openings (or that have opened within the last six months). 

Learn more at https://plannedgrocery.com. 

REPORT ALL USA

Data types available: Parcel/Cadastral

Who is Report All?

• Covering more than 150.0 million parcels in over 3021 U.S. counties, Report All data architecture solves the problems associated with non-standardized parcel data between U.S. counties, regions and states. Report All imports and derives many important parcel attributes from a variety of sources into a single national parcel database to allow for analyses at regional and national levels.
• Any search result links to a variety of fully integrated web-based mapping systems: Google StreetView or Bing Maps bird's eye view are just a click away.
• A click on a result will jump to a pre-queried county auditor's page for full parcel detail.
• Additional features such as environmental (Flood zones, Wetlands, and Soils) and demographic (Census blocks and groups) are just a few of the resources included in the mapping system.
• Report All’s real estate parcel-based geospatial data solutions also include:

• A REST API for system-to-system integration
• LandGlide App for Apple and Android devices
• PARLAY for enhanced functionality with Google Earth
• The ability to download a complete county Shapefile on demand from Report All National Parcel Database

About ReportAll Data

ReportAll’s national database of real estate parcel data includes 150.0 million parcels covering 92.1% of all U.S. properties. This parcel data provides:

• Currency - The parcel boundary data is continuously maintained with over 90% updated within 12 months and 70% within 6 months.
• Coverage - Covering over 150.0 million parcels in over 3,021 U.S. counties
• Standardization – Report All patented data normalization and transformation processes simplify data interaction for search and full integration into any application.
• Complete Polygons – Unlike point only data, a Polygon format allows for the rendering in web and GIS applications and facilitates powerful analysis of location, area, dimensions, and neighboring properties. The data is deliverable in shapefile and other geo formats.

Learn more at https://reportallusa.com/.

RESTAURANT TRENDS

Data types available: Shopping Centers

Who is Restaurant Trends?

For over 30 years, Restaurant Trends has been the only continuous store-level research effort, tracking all major QSR (Quick Service) and FSR (Full Service) restaurant chains. The company’s products give users the competitive intelligence companies need on over 187,000 stores in over 550 chains in every market in the United States.

About Restaurant Trends Data

• Restaurant Trends’ StoreGRADE reports allow clients to measure the performance of stores through annualized sales, as well as indexed Market and National grades. These reports are simple, accurate, and easy to understand with grades A+ to F.
• StoreTYPE clients use this store-level data to select sites for new store locations and find and analyze trade areas; identify where their competitors are weak and strong; and understand the sales performance of all types of stores.
• Companies use MarketSHARE reports at the market level to identify which brands are winning and losing in every market; understand how and why market share is being won or lost; prioritize which markets to expand into; quantify the sales performance of a brand versus the market; identify strategic trends on a bi-annual basis; see the impact on sales of new stores vs per store sales growth; easily see how and where their competitors are strong and weak; and evaluate the impact of marketing programs.
• MarketTREND reports provide clients with sales performance (% change vs. prior year) information at the National, Market and Chain level.
• StoreADDRESS reports provide clients with continuously verified data regarding location, store closings, offsets relocation's, etc. Addresses are routinely corrected for geocoding accuracy

​Learn more at https://www.restauranttrends.com.

SHOPPING CENTER DATABASE – RETAIL TENANT DIRECTORY

Data types available: Shopping Centers

Who is Retail Tenant Directory?

Retail Tenant Directory is an online subscription-based publication of Shopping Center Database Inc. that lists exclusive inside company details for nearly 5,700 active retail chains in the U.S. Updated on a weekly basis, RTDOnline provides: leads to active retailers, who to contact and where, in-depth company profiles, where retailers are looking to expand, preferred store size and more. Recognized throughout the industry as the most accurate data source available, the Retail Tenant Directory has become the standard by which all other similar resources are measured.

The company offers the information needed to contact retailers -- address, telephone and fax numbers, website addresses and emails (where available), plus the names of nearly 19,000 retail executives, including the people responsible for site selection.

About Retail Tenant Directory Data

Retail Tenant Directory is an online subscription-based publication of Shopping Center Database Inc. that lists exclusive inside company details for the nearly 5,700 active retail chains in the U.S. The database provides crucial information such as:

• Number of stores
• Desired square footage
• Preferred type of center
• Annual Sales
• Minimum frontage
• Desired lease length
• Demographic requirements
• Expansion plans

Learn more at www.retailtenants.com.

STI: LANDSCAPE

Data types available: Lifestyle Segmentation

Who is Synergos Technologies (STI)?

Synergos Technologies Inc. has been helping companies better understand their U.S. markets since 1993. The company introduced the first affordable desktop mapping software in 1993 and the STI: PopStats™ product, the first quarterly population estimates, in 2001.

STI also introduced STI: Vortex VDB, the first comprehensive and affordable desktop mapping software. This was soon followed by a full slate of mapping data products.

In 2005, STI launched its second major product, an innovative consumer lifestyle segmentation system called STI: LandScape. LandScape brings consumer attitudinal data out of the shadows and into the forefront, so companies can understand and map consumers' purchasing propensities at the neighborhood-level.

Since then STI has continued to create leading-edge data products, including STI: BlockPoint, STI: WorkPlace, and STI: Spending Patterns. Today STI data is used by leading companies in retail, real estate, healthcare, telecommunications, finance, and other industries.

About Synergos Technologies (STI): LandScape Data

The STI: LandScape™ product is an innovative neighborhood segmentation system created specifically to segment consumers by both traditional demographic factors and by their lifestyle attitudes.

• 10 Unique Lifestyle Indicators – Discover five social and five health indicators that influence consumers' purchasing propensities, based on data from leading U.S. agencies
• 11 Unique Environmental Indicators – Understand consumers from 11 environmental perspectives, including crime and migration, based on data from leading U.S. agencies
• Syndicated Consumer Survey Data – Learn what consumers are buying now on household, entertainment, and media, based on Mediamark's trusted consumer panel survey data

Learn more at http://www.synergos-tech.com/ls_intro.htm.

STI: POPSTATS

Data types available: Demographics & Economics

Who is Synergos Technologies (STI)?

Synergos Technologies Inc. has been helping companies better understand their U.S. markets since 1993. The company introduced the first affordable desktop mapping software in 1993 and the STI: PopStats™ product, the first quarterly population estimates, in 2001.

STI also introduced STI: Vortex VDB, the first comprehensive and affordable desktop mapping software. This was soon followed by a full slate of mapping data products.

In 2005, STI launched its second major product, an innovative consumer lifestyle segmentation system called STI: LandScape. LandScape helps companies understand and map consumers' purchasing propensities at the neighborhood-level.

Since then STI has continued to create leading-edge data products, including STI: BlockPoint, STI: WorkPlace, and STI: Spending Patterns. STI data is used by leading companies in retail, real estate, healthcare, telecommunications, finance, and other industries.

About Synergos Technologies (STI): PopStats Data

Since its launch in 2001, a growing number of progressive companies have come to depend on STI: PopStats™ quarterly population estimate's accurate, current, and robust population data. They use it to capture real population growth as it occurs, estimate population counts accurately at low geographic levels, gain in-depth knowledge about specific populations, access data for both historic growth trends and future forecasts—and much more.

• PopStats data captures population changes, whether up or down, as they occur —and in small geographic areas. Updated estimates are delivered on time every January, April, July, and October. Each update includes the current period and eight recent quarters of history.
• PopStats data uses a combination of unique source data from the U.S. Postal Service ZIP + 4 ® records and the U.S. Census, its own proprietary "bottom-up" methodology, and field tests to deliver the most dependable population estimates available.
• PopStats data gives companies an expanding range of consumer data. PopStats data has grown from 21 variables in 2001 to over 1,200 in 2009. Today researchers can access mortgage-risk data, seasonal data, transient data, eight quarters of historical data, and much more.

Learn more at http://www.synergos-tech.com/ps_intro.htm

STI: SPENDING PATTERNS

Data types available: Consumer Spending

Who is Synergos Technologies (STI)?

Synergos Technologies Inc. has been helping companies better understand their U.S. markets since 1993. The company introduced the first affordable desktop mapping software in 1993 and the STI: PopStats™ product, the first quarterly population estimates, in 2001.

STI also introduced STI: Vortex VDB, the first comprehensive and affordable desktop mapping software. This was soon followed by a full slate of mapping data products.

In 2005, STI launched its second major product, an innovative consumer lifestyle segmentation system called STI: LandScape. LandScape helps companies understand and map consumers' purchasing propensities at the neighborhood-level.

Since then STI has continued to create leading-edge data products, including STI: BlockPoint, STI: WorkPlace, and STI: Spending Patterns. STI data is used by leading companies in retail, real estate, healthcare, telecommunications, finance, and other industries.

About Synergos Technologies (STI): Spending Patterns Data

STI: Spending Patterns helps users understand consumers' spending habits in over 600 products and service categories by geographic area and the prices they have the potential to pay for these items to make informed decisions on everything from site location, to merchandising, to marketing.

The source of STI: Spending Patterns data is the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). It is based on the annual Consumer Expenditure Survey, which measures the spending habits of U.S. consumers. Every quarter, Synergos Technologies models this raw data and delivers a weekly per capita, an average spending per capita per week, and a consumer price potential by spending category.

• Geographically identifies most profitable customers and potential customers. Use the data to pinpoint consumers by their spending patterns, segment consumers by spending habits, review product offerings, and target promotions.
• STI: Spending Patterns is modeled at the block-level, which allows companies to identify consumer spending patterns and spending price potential with precision.
• STI: Market Outlook compares the current supply of goods and services in trade areas to the current consumer demand. STI: Spending Patterns tells what consumers are currently purchasing and how much they are willing to pay in the future in specific product and service categories.

Learn more at http://www.synergos-tech.com/sp_intro.htm.

STI: WORKPLACE

Data types available: Business and Employees

Who is Synergos Technologies (STI)?

Synergos Technologies Inc. has been helping companies better understand their U.S. markets since 1993. The company introduced the first affordable desktop mapping software in 1993 and the STI: PopStats™ product, the first quarterly population estimates, in 2001.

STI also introduced STI: Vortex VDB, the first comprehensive and affordable desktop mapping software. This was soon followed by a full slate of mapping data products.

In 2005, STI launched its second major product, an innovative consumer lifestyle segmentation system called STI: LandScape. LandScape helps companies understand and map consumers' purchasing propensities at the neighborhood-level.

Since then STI has continued to create leading-edge data products, including STI: BlockPoint, STI: WorkPlace, and STI: Spending Patterns. STI data is used by leading companies in retail, real estate, healthcare, telecommunications, finance, and other industries.

About Synergos Technologies (STI): WorkPlace Data

Just as STI: PopStats™ data delivers dependable population estimates, STI: WorkPlace delivers the most reliable counts of both businesses and employees in today's U.S. trade areas. It uncovers unique data points not available in other data products, including employees' occupations and incomes (salaries and wages).

STI: WorkPlace is updated every three months and delivers business insight starting at the block level — so the information is both timely and relevant.

STI: WorkPlace gives views into business activity by trade area.

• Delivers accurate business and employee estimates. Unlike other business estimating products, STI: WorkPlace gets its accuracy from unique, trustworthy data sources, including the U.S. Census Bureau, the Bureau of Labor Statistics, and the U.S. Postal Service.
• Provides enhanced business insight. STI: WorkPlace delivers robust business knowledge, including business counts, employee estimates, a list of worker occupations, and employee salaries and wages.
• Provides the companion data to other STI data products. STI: WorkPlace is a natural addition to STI's complete suite of products, including STI: PopStats, STI: Spending Patterns, and STI: Market Outlook.

Learn more at http://www.synergos-tech.com/wp_intro.htm.

VISTA BY NEAR

Data types available: Mobile Phone Activity

Who is NEAR?

Near is the world's largest source of intelligence on people, places and products.

About Vista Data

Vista offers places data from 100+ countries, with historical data for up to 7 years. This aggregated and anonymized data offers users insights into where visitors are seen before or after a visit to a place, where a place gets most of its visitors from, visitor demographics based on Census data, visitor patterns within a place, day of week and time of day visitation, visitation over time and more. 

Learn more at www.near.com/vista.

AGGDATA

Data types available: Business Locations

Who is AggData?

AggData provides accurate, up-to-date, and actionable geo-location data. In 2017, AggData was acquired by Market Service Inc., parent company of Accounts Receivables Management Solutions (ARMS).

About AggData Data

AggData is short for aggregate data, which means a set of data that is collected together in one place and is delivered in the form of a list of records where each record has details about a specific object in the group. Examples of datasets could be complete lists of retail store locations or geographic country information. This information is often available to the public via the Internet, but AggData compiles it into an easily accessible and workable file.

Features:

• AggData’s retail location database includes more than 6,000 monitored companies and 5.5 million total locational records
• AggData maintains the largest international database, with coverage in roughly 250 countries and territories
• AggData implements a proprietary four-tier Quality Assurance process that includes final verification by a team of in-house, industry-specific analysts
• Future store closings
• Historical store activity data
• Real-time API data feed
• Extremely accurate and analyst supported data
• Derived from primary sources with rigorous quality vetting
• Up-to-data information updated monthly and quarterly

Learn more at www.aggdata.com.

CHAINXY

Data types available: Business Locations

Who is ChainXY?

ChainXY is a data solution company that provides retail and restaurant locational data to help curate chain data for retail and real estate professionals conducting market research. ChainXY knows that data fuels the real estate analytics engine, and ChainXY is a data solution that provides quality data at a reasonable price.

About ChainXY Data

ChainXY provides business locational data in a variety of easily manipulatable formats. The company’s cost-effective solution provides data in common data and spatial formats. ChainXY provides insights into thousands of retail and restaurant, and service chains covering the United States and Canada.

• 4,500 chains in the United States and Canada
• Minimum of quarterly updates or better for all chains in the United States & Canada
• Through its map-based interface, users can suggest point location corrections that will be vetted by the QA team. Once approved, a location’s coordinates will be immediately corrected and perpetually preserved.
• Directly connect to ChainXY’s data service from SiteSeer

Learn more at https://chainxy.com.

DATA AXLE

Data types available: Business Locations

Who is Data Axle?

Data Axle, formerly known as Infogroup, is a leading provider of data and real-time business intelligence solutions for enterprise, small business, nonprofit and political organizations. The company's solutions enable clients to acquire and retain customers, and enhance their user experiences through proprietary business and consumer data, artificial intelligence/machine learning models, innovative software applications and expert professional services. Data Axle's cloud-based platform delivers data and data updates in real-time via APIs, CRM integrations, SaaS, and managed services.

About Data Axle Data

Business Data | Data Axle offers a comprehensive view of tens of millions of businesses across the United States and Canada. With nearly 300 data attributes, the Data Axle dataset offers a complete view of almost every business in the United States and Canada - from the Fortune 500 down to mom-and-pop shops and work-from-home freelancers. Business records are updated in real time and features rich information including street address, phone number, hours of operation, number of employees, online presence, SIC code, business contacts, and much more.

Learn more at www.data-axle.com. 

ENVIRONICS

Data types available: Demographics, Business Locations

Who is Environics?

Environics is one of North America’s leading data, analytics and marketing services companies. The company serves a broad range of private, not-for-profit, and public sector institutions.

About Environics Data

Environics has 45 databases offering more than 30,000 variables that help users connect with consumers.

• Demographic – Environics offers five proprietary databases built from multiple sources.
• Segmentation – Environics has four off-the-shelf segmentation systems, including PRIZM, a Canadian consumer segmentation system.
• Mobile Analytics – Access mobile data through ENVISION.
• Financial – Choose from 10 databases, including WealthScapes, a comprehensive Canadian financial database, for spending and investment behavior.
• Psychographic – Psychographic data will allow users to develop communications and merchandising strategies to engage customers.
• Health – Health-related data as well as information about Canadians’ attitudes and behaviors towards health care.
• Behavioral – Environics partners with leading data and survey providers to produce 12 databases that offer insights on a range of topics, from media and shopping habits to attitudes on charitable giving and the environment.
• Location – View map displays with points of interest—retail locations, schools, waterways, parks and bus terminals—that can be added onto thematic layers.
• Canadian business facts – These customer contact databases will help users identify prospects to contact by telephone, direct mail or email, update customer records, establish relationships with new customers, and target new homeowners for products/services.
• Business – The databases offered can help determine a site’s retail opportunity, estimate a new store’s sales potential and identify business prospects for targeted marketing.
• Variables lists – Access the Canadian variables lists library.

Learn more at https://www.environicsanalytics.com.

Planned Grocery

Data types available: Location

Who is Beitz and Daigh Geographics? 

Planned Grocery is created by Beitz and Daigh Geographics, a data and software development company focused on the geospatial needs of the commercial real estate industry.

About Planned Grocery Data

Planned Grocery offers data to grocery store chains and retailers that commonly locate in or near grocery-anchored shopping centers as they assess site opportunities. Users can monitor grocery competition and improve their site selection for new grocery stores.

The Columbia, South Carolina-based data provider tracks more than 200 national, regional and local grocery store brands around the United States and more than 1,200 stores slated for future openings (or that have opened within the last six months). 

Learn more at https://plannedgrocery.com. 

STI: WORKPLACE

Data types available: Business and Employees

Who is Synergos Technologies (STI)?

Synergos Technologies Inc. has been helping companies better understand their U.S. markets since 1993. The company introduced the first affordable desktop mapping software in 1993 and the STI: PopStats™ product, the first quarterly population estimates, in 2001.

STI also introduced STI: Vortex VDB, the first comprehensive and affordable desktop mapping software. This was soon followed by a full slate of mapping data products.

In 2005, STI launched its second major product, an innovative consumer lifestyle segmentation system called STI: LandScape. LandScape helps companies understand and map consumers' purchasing propensities at the neighborhood-level.

Since then STI has continued to create leading-edge data products, including STI: BlockPoint, STI: WorkPlace, and STI: Spending Patterns. STI data is used by leading companies in retail, real estate, healthcare, telecommunications, finance, and other industries.

About Synergos Technologies (STI): WorkPlace Data

Just as STI: PopStats™ data delivers dependable population estimates, STI: WorkPlace delivers the most reliable counts of both businesses and employees in today's U.S. trade areas. It uncovers unique data points not available in other data products, including employees' occupations and incomes (salaries and wages).

STI: WorkPlace is updated every three months and delivers business insight starting at the block level — so the information is both timely and relevant.

STI: WorkPlace gives views into business activity by trade area.

• Delivers accurate business and employee estimates. Unlike other business estimating products, STI: WorkPlace gets its accuracy from unique, trustworthy data sources, including the U.S. Census Bureau, the Bureau of Labor Statistics, and the U.S. Postal Service.
• Provides enhanced business insight. STI: WorkPlace delivers robust business knowledge, including business counts, employee estimates, a list of worker occupations, and employee salaries and wages.
• Provides the companion data to other STI data products. STI: WorkPlace is a natural addition to STI's complete suite of products, including STI: PopStats, STI: Spending Patterns, and STI: Market Outlook.

Learn more at http://www.synergos-tech.com/wp_intro.htm.

COMPETITIVE ANALYTICS PROFESSIONALS (CAP)

Data types available: Shopping Centers

Who is Competitive Analytics Professionals (CAP)?

CAP, LLC provides comprehensive, location data for retail, restaurant, mobile insights and shopping centers.

About CAP Data

CAP provides three types of products:

• Restaurant and retail – ReCAP data products provide CAP with the ability to offer quality retail and restaurant location databases at an affordable price. By assigning multiple categories to each location, and through the use of proprietary data verifying & QA process, CAP is able to offer the most comprehensive location databases in the marketplace today.
• Shopping centers - CAP is the leading provider of shopping center data, with over 3 billion in GLA tracked. Over 41,000 shopping centers tracked in the US & Canada, CAP has been providing the best shopping center data set in the market. Solution providers, real estate developers and major retailers & restaurants have been using CAP Shopping Centers for over nine years.
• Mobile – CAP Mobile Insight provides instant results providing when people visit a shopping center, by day, day-part and over time.
• CAP has geo-fenced over twenty thousand CAP Shopping Centers to capture when consumers have entered a center, where did they come from and where did they go along the way. With over a billion observations a week this big data provides massive insight into the consumer.
• CAP has generated trade areas for 20,000+ shopping centers that show a true trade area around centers of interest.
• CAP captures real data generated by mobile device locations.

Learn more at https://www.caplocations.com.

CHAIN STORE GUIDE

Data types available: Shopping Centers

Who is Chain Store Guide (CSG)?

Chain Store Guide (CSG) is a leading provider of comprehensive and definitive retail and foodservice intelligence to businesses around the world. Chain Store Guide details all major retailers, restaurants, distributors and wholesalers in the United States and Canada with contact information on over 746,000 establishments.

About Chain Store Guide Data

Chain Store Guide data is compiled by its staff of editors and research professionals. While some companies simply compile data from sources such as the Yellow Pages, Chain Store Guide researches every company profiled. Their staff contacts companies by phone, mail or email to verify the information and ensure that data is accurate and current.

Chain Store Guide provides data in print directory, online web application and customized database formats. Chain Store Guide data is used by manufacturers, suppliers, service providers, brokers, real estate professionals, retailers, analysts, consultants and other professionals seeking to gain insight into retail and foodservice markets in the U.S. and Canada. Since 1933, Chain Store Guide has been the leading data source for in-depth information on retailers, restaurants, and food service operations.

Learn more at https://www.chainstoreguide.com/.

DIRECTORY OF MAJOR MALLS

Data types available: Shopping Centers

Who is Directory of Major Malls?

Directory of Major Malls/ShoppingCenters.com is the leading source for comprehensive, accurate shopping center data. More than just malls, the DMM database covers the full spectrum of retail project types, offering access to the most comprehensive data on enclosed malls, open-air community centers, power centers, value-retail / outlet centers (approx. 200,000+ sq. ft.), lifestyle/specialty/mixed-use of any size, and entertainment.

Since the late 1970s, DMM has evolved from a print directory into an online source of retail data with robust query functions, integrated mapping tools, custom reports, contact lists and licensed datasets.

About Directory of Major Malls Data

DMM data is used for planning, investing, marketing, marketing analysis of publicly traded companies, REITs, revenue trending studies, economic market studies, and more.

DMM data is leveraged by major retailers, specialty and seasonal retailers, owners and developers, service providers, investors and financial firms including hedge funds, global investment funds and bank groups, leasing agents and brokers, architectural, design and construction firms, and others.

• 8,467 shopping centers across the U.S. and Canada
• 318,771 tenant locations
• 42,335 VIP contacts for leasing agents, landlords, managers and marketing directors
• 530,296 data point updates in just the last year alone
• 5,924 site/leasing plans
• 3,630,642,958 square feet of retail GLA

Learn more at https://shoppingcenters.com.

SHOPPING CENTER DATABASE – RETAIL TENANT DIRECTORY

Data types available: Shopping Centers

Who is Retail Tenant Directory?

Retail Tenant Directory is an online subscription-based publication of Shopping Center Database Inc. that lists exclusive inside company details for nearly 5,700 active retail chains in the U.S. Updated on a weekly basis, RTDOnline provides: leads to active retailers, who to contact and where, in-depth company profiles, where retailers are looking to expand, preferred store size and more. Recognized throughout the industry as the most accurate data source available, the Retail Tenant Directory has become the standard by which all other similar resources are measured.

The company offers the information needed to contact retailers -- address, telephone and fax numbers, website addresses and emails (where available), plus the names of nearly 19,000 retail executives, including the people responsible for site selection.

About Retail Tenant Directory Data

Retail Tenant Directory is an online subscription-based publication of Shopping Center Database Inc. that lists exclusive inside company details for the nearly 5,700 active retail chains in the U.S. The database provides crucial information such as:

• Number of stores
• Desired square footage
• Preferred type of center
• Annual Sales
• Minimum frontage
• Desired lease length
• Demographic requirements
• Expansion plans

Learn more at www.retailtenants.com

RESTAURANT TRENDS

Data types available: Shopping Centers

Who is Restaurant Trends?

For over 30 years, Restaurant Trends has been the only continuous store-level research effort, tracking all major QSR (Quick Service) and FSR (Full Service) restaurant chains. The company’s products give users the competitive intelligence companies need on over 187,000 stores in over 550 chains in every market in the United States.

About Restaurant Trends Data

• Restaurant Trends’ StoreGRADE reports allow clients to measure the performance of stores through annualized sales, as well as indexed Market and National grades. These reports are simple, accurate, and easy to understand with grades A+ to F.
• StoreTYPE clients use this store-level data to select sites for new store locations and find and analyze trade areas; identify where their competitors are weak and strong; and understand the sales performance of all types of stores.
• Companies use MarketSHARE reports at the market level to identify which brands are winning and losing in every market; understand how and why market share is being won or lost; prioritize which markets to expand into; quantify the sales performance of a brand versus the market; identify strategic trends on a bi-annual basis; see the impact on sales of new stores vs per store sales growth; easily see how and where their competitors are strong and weak; and evaluate the impact of marketing programs.
• MarketTREND reports provide clients with sales performance (% change vs. prior year) information at the National, Market and Chain level.
• StoreADDRESS reports provide clients with continuously verified data regarding location, store closings, offsets relocation's, etc. Addresses are routinely corrected for geocoding accuracy

​Learn more at https://www.restauranttrends.com

APPLIED GEOGRAPHIC SOLUTIONS (AGS)

Data types available: Demographics

Who is Applied Geographic Solutions?

Applied Geographic Solutions, Inc. (AGS) is a leading supplier of premium quality demographic and marketing databases.

About AGS Demographic & Business Dimensions Data

The Estimates and Projections (E&P) database is the core data offering of AGS, covering the essentials of demographics including population, household, dwelling, labor force, and income statistics. Most analytical applications require at the very least a sampling of this core data in conjunction with more specialized datasets that AGS offers.

The E&P database covers a broad range of demographic characteristics for the current year, and 5-year projections. Variables include:

• Population by household type (family, non-family), group quarters type (institutional, non-institutional), age (19 age breaks), age and sex (38 breaks), sex, race, Hispanic origin, race and Hispanic origin, marital status, and educational achievement; Households by type (family, non-family), size of household, age of head of household, household type (e.g. lone parent male family with children); Average Household Size; Length of Residence; Total Vehicles Available; Households by number of vehicles available; and Households by number of vehicles available and tenure
• Labor Force: Employment Status and Employment Status by sex
• Income: Aggregate Income (family, non-family households, group quarters); Household income distribution (15 breaks); Family income distribution (15 breaks); Extended Upper-Income distributions; Median and average income (family, household); Age of head of household by income; Median income by age of head of household
• Dwellings: Vacant Dwellings and Tenure

Learn more at www.appliedgeographic.com.

DEVONSHIRE

Data types available: Demographics

Who is Devonshire?

Devonshire Associates Ltd. provides data to the nation’s leading media, retail, real estate and financial services firms. The company offers a robust Demographic Data Series as well as an Econometric Data Series that measures business and retail activity down to the neighborhood level. Its Business dmPLUS™ Database provides complete information on over 20 million business locations and its Consumer dmPLUS™ Database contains information on more than 124 million consumer households.

About Devonshire Data

• Demographic Data Series - Devonshire’s Demographic Data Series includes an extensive supply of core demographic variables, offering current-year estimates and 5-year projections of population, households, income, labor force, and housing.
• Econometric Data Series - Devonshire's Econometric Data Series marks the difference between potential and reality. Users get a full picture of consumer and business spending and actual sales activity in any market.
• Business Data Series – Devonshire's Business Data Series includes comprehensive information on every business location in the United States. Devonshire’s Retail MarketPoint™ platform holds data on over 40,000 shopping centers and 3,000 regional and national retail chains. The Business dmPLUS™ file contains inclusive business location data.
• Consumer Data Series –Devonshire's Consumer Data Series provides information about consumer households.
• SEA-RCH.com – SEA-RCH™ offers a range of products that have been designed specifically for media planners who must determine the most effective local search placements for their advertising. SEA-RCH™ is used by hundreds of publishers, agencies and advertisers who rely on its licensed media data, software and proprietary media planning services.

Learn more at http://devonline.com/.

ENVIRONICS

Data types available: Demographics, Business Locations

Who is Environics?

Environics is one of North America’s leading data, analytics and marketing services companies. The company serves a broad range of private, not-for-profit, and public sector institutions.

About Environics Data

Environics has 45 databases offering more than 30,000 variables that help users connect with consumers.

• Demographic – Environics offers five proprietary databases built from multiple sources.
• Segmentation – Environics has four off-the-shelf segmentation systems, including PRIZM, a Canadian consumer segmentation system.
• Mobile Analytics – Access mobile data through ENVISION.
• Financial – Choose from 10 databases, including WealthScapes, a comprehensive Canadian financial database, for spending and investment behavior.
• Psychographic – Psychographic data will allow users to develop communications and merchandising strategies to engage customers.
• Health – Health-related data as well as information about Canadians’ attitudes and behaviors towards health care.
• Behavioral – Environics partners with leading data and survey providers to produce 12 databases that offer insights on a range of topics, from media and shopping habits to attitudes on charitable giving and the environment.
• Location – View map displays with points of interest—retail locations, schools, waterways, parks and bus terminals—that can be added onto thematic layers.
• Canadian business facts – These customer contact databases will help users identify prospects to contact by telephone, direct mail or email, update customer records, establish relationships with new customers, and target new homeowners for products/services.
• Business – The databases offered can help determine a site’s retail opportunity, estimate a new store’s sales potential and identify business prospects for targeted marketing.
• Variables lists – Access the Canadian variables lists library.

Learn more at https://www.environicsanalytics.com.

STI: POPSTATS

Data types available: Demographics and Economics

Who is Synergos Technologies (STI)?

Synergos Technologies Inc. has been helping companies better understand their U.S. markets since 1993. The company introduced the first affordable desktop mapping software in 1993 and the STI: PopStats™ product, the first quarterly population estimates, in 2001.

STI also introduced STI: Vortex VDB, the first comprehensive and affordable desktop mapping software. This was soon followed by a full slate of mapping data products.

In 2005, STI launched its second major product, an innovative consumer lifestyle segmentation system called STI: LandScape. LandScape helps companies understand and map consumers' purchasing propensities at the neighborhood-level.

Since then STI has continued to create leading-edge data products, including STI: BlockPoint, STI: WorkPlace, and STI: Spending Patterns. STI data is used by leading companies in retail, real estate, healthcare, telecommunications, finance, and other industries.

About Synergos Technologies (STI): PopStats Data

Since its launch in 2001, a growing number of progressive companies have come to depend on STI: PopStats™ quarterly population estimate's accurate, current, and robust population data. They use it to capture real population growth as it occurs, estimate population counts accurately at low geographic levels, gain in-depth knowledge about specific populations, access data for both historic growth trends and future forecasts—and much more.

• PopStats data captures population changes, whether up or down, as they occur —and in small geographic areas. Updated estimates are delivered on time every January, April, July, and October. Each update includes the current period and eight recent quarters of history.
• PopStats data uses a combination of unique source data from the U.S. Postal Service ZIP + 4 ® records and the U.S. Census, its own proprietary "bottom-up" methodology, and field tests to deliver the most dependable population estimates available.
• PopStats data gives companies an expanding range of consumer data. PopStats data has grown from 21 variables in 2001 to over 1,200 in 2009. Today researchers can access mortgage-risk data, seasonal data, transient data, eight quarters of historical data, and much more.

Learn more at http://www.synergos-tech.com/ps_intro.htm

VISTA BY NEAR

Data types available: Mobile Phone Activity

Who is NEAR?

Near is the world's largest source of intelligence on people, places and products.

About Vista Data

Vista offers places data from 100+ countries, with historical data for up to 7 years. This aggregated and anonymized data offers users insights into where visitors are seen before or after a visit to a place, where a place gets most of its visitors from, visitor demographics based on Census data, visitor patterns within a place, day of week and time of day visitation, visitation over time and more. 

Learn more at www.near.com/vista.

STI: SPENDING PATTERNS

Data types available: Consumer Spending

Who is Synergos Technologies (STI)?

Synergos Technologies Inc. has been helping companies better understand their U.S. markets since 1993. The company introduced the first affordable desktop mapping software in 1993 and the STI: PopStats™ product, the first quarterly population estimates, in 2001.

STI also introduced STI: Vortex VDB, the first comprehensive and affordable desktop mapping software. This was soon followed by a full slate of mapping data products.

In 2005, STI launched its second major product, an innovative consumer lifestyle segmentation system called STI: LandScape. LandScape helps companies understand and map consumers' purchasing propensities at the neighborhood-level.

Since then STI has continued to create leading-edge data products, including STI: BlockPoint, STI: WorkPlace, and STI: Spending Patterns. STI data is used by leading companies in retail, real estate, healthcare, telecommunications, finance, and other industries.

About Synergos Technologies (STI): Spending Patterns Data

STI: Spending Patterns helps users understand consumers' spending habits in over 600 products and service categories by geographic area and the prices they have the potential to pay for these items to make informed decisions on everything from site location, to merchandising, to marketing.

The source of STI: Spending Patterns data is the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). It is based on the annual Consumer Expenditure Survey, which measures the spending habits of U.S. consumers. Every quarter, Synergos Technologies models this raw data and delivers a weekly per capita, an average spending per capita per week, and a consumer price potential by spending category.

• Geographically identifies most profitable customers and potential customers. Use the data to pinpoint consumers by their spending patterns, segment consumers by spending habits, review product offerings, and target promotions.
• STI: Spending Patterns is modeled at the block-level, which allows companies to identify consumer spending patterns and spending price potential with precision.
• STI: Market Outlook compares the current supply of goods and services in trade areas to the current consumer demand. STI: Spending Patterns tells what consumers are currently purchasing and how much they are willing to pay in the future in specific product and service categories.

Learn more at http://www.synergos-tech.com/sp_intro.htm.

STI: MARKET OUTLOOK

Data types available: Consumer Demand

Who is Synergos Technologies (STI)?

Synergos Technologies Inc. has been helping companies better understand their U.S. markets since 1993. The company introduced the first affordable desktop mapping software in 1993 and the STI: PopStats™ product, the first quarterly population estimates, in 2001.

STI also introduced STI: Vortex VDB, the first comprehensive and affordable desktop mapping software. This was soon followed by a full slate of mapping data products.

In 2005, STI launched its second major product, an innovative consumer lifestyle segmentation system called STI: LandScape. LandScape helps companies understand and map consumers' purchasing propensities at the neighborhood-level.

Since then STI has continued to create leading-edge data products, including STI: BlockPoint, STI: WorkPlace, and STI: Spending Patterns. STI data is used by leading companies in retail, real estate, healthcare, telecommunications, finance, and other industries.

About STI: Market Outlook Data

STI: Market Outlook delivers the supply and demand insight you need to take proactive steps to meet real and accurate consumer demands as they exist today.

When you choose Market Outlook, you gain dependable supply and demand insight, the first-mover advantage, and an ideal companion to other STI data products.

• Measures annual retail sales and expenditures by common retail categories and product lines. Market Outlook provides a direct comparison between annual retail sales and consumer spending in 31 retail segments for both supply and demand, as identified by NAICS (the North American Industry Classification System). It also provides supply and demand insight for over 40 retail product categories. Further, it provides recent year's demand historical data for a total of nearly 300 variables.
• Helps you capitalize on unmet product demand and opportunities — especially in fast growing markets. In the consumer world, it's all about first-come, first-serve. When you proactively identify demand gaps in your markets, you gain the first-mover advantage, thereby, increasing your chances of winning greater consumer mind- and pocket-share.

• Provides the companion data to STI: Spending Patterns. Spending Patterns tells businesses how much consumers are willing to spend on common consumer products, such as a loaf of bread. Market Outlook reveals the other side of the coin by comparing the current supply to the current demand. Together, these two products provide in-depth insight into consumer spending and demand.

GFK MRI

Data types available: Consumer/Psychographics

Who is GfK MRI?

MRI is a division of GfK. MRI and Simmons Research have now combined in a joint venture to be called MRI-Simmons.  The JV will be co-owned by GfK and SymphonyAI Group, with GfK as the majority partner.

GfK is a trusted source of relevant market and consumer information that enables its clients to make smarter decisions. GfK delivers vital global insights matched with local market intelligence from more than 100 countries. GfK turns big data into smart data, enabling its clients to improve their competitive edge and enrich consumers’ experiences and choices. 

About GfK MRI Data

MRI is a leading provider of media and consumer research in the United States. Its Survey of the American Consumer® is used in the majority of US media and marketing plans and has long been the industry standard for magazine audience ratings. Through over 24,000 in-person interviews each year, MRI captures in-depth information on consumer media choices, attitudes, and consumption of products and services in nearly 600 categories.

For the past 20 years, MRI’s national study and reporting services have been accredited by the MRC, which assures that audience measurement services are valid, reliable, and effective. As part of its annual accreditation process, the MRC conducts rigorous audits of MRI’s methodology, fieldwork, analytics, and data handling systems. MRI is the only service of its kind to maintain this level of quality.

Learn more at https://mri.gfk.com.

STI: LANDSCAPE

Data types available: Lifestyle Segmentation

Who is Synergos Technologies (STI)?

Synergos Technologies Inc. has been helping companies better understand their U.S. markets since 1993. The company introduced the first affordable desktop mapping software in 1993 and the STI: PopStats™ product, the first quarterly population estimates, in 2001.

STI also introduced STI: Vortex VDB, the first comprehensive and affordable desktop mapping software. This was soon followed by a full slate of mapping data products.

In 2005, STI launched its second major product, an innovative consumer lifestyle segmentation system called STI: LandScape. LandScape brings consumer attitudinal data out of the shadows and into the forefront, so companies can understand and map consumers' purchasing propensities at the neighborhood-level.

Since then STI has continued to create leading-edge data products, including STI: BlockPoint, STI: WorkPlace, and STI: Spending Patterns. Today STI data is used by leading companies in retail, real estate, healthcare, telecommunications, finance, and other industries.

About Synergos Technologies (STI): LandScape Data

The STI: LandScape™ product is an innovative neighborhood segmentation system created specifically to segment consumers by both traditional demographic factors and by their lifestyle attitudes.

• 10 Unique Lifestyle Indicators – Discover five social and five health indicators that influence consumers' purchasing propensities, based on data from leading U.S. agencies
• 11 Unique Environmental Indicators – Understand consumers from 11 environmental perspectives, including crime and migration, based on data from leading U.S. agencies
• Syndicated Consumer Survey Data – Learn what consumers are buying now on household, entertainment, and media, based on Mediamark's trusted consumer panel survey data

Learn more at http://www.synergos-tech.com/ls_intro.htm.

CLARITAS

Data types available: Lifestyle Segmentation

Who is Claritas?

Claritas is a leading data company that helps brands identify and target their best customers. Its unique

methodology, which combines sought after data resources with direct, original consumer research, is

proven to help marketers find their best customers faster. Claritas products and services help paint a 360-degree picture of customers or prospects using unique behavior-based segments. Through Claritas’ core product, PRIZM® Premier Segmentation, clients can better understand where their consumers live,

work, play and shop for more effective and efficient marketing across all channels.

About Claritas PRIZM Premier Data

PRIZM Premier combines demographic, consumer behavior, and geographic data to help marketers find and engage their customers and prospects. PRIZM Premier defines households with 68 demographically and behaviorally distinct segments discerning consumers’ likes, dislikes, lifestyles and purchase behaviors in a way that’s contextual and easy to communicate and activate.

PRIZM Premier's 68 segments are defined according to socioeconomic rank, including characteristics such as income, education, occupation and home value as well as 11 life stage groups and 14 social groups.

PRIZM Premier Social Groups are based on urbanization and socioeconomic rank. PRIZM Premier Lifestage Groups are based on age, socioeconomic rank, and the presence of children at home.

Learn more at https://www.claritas.com/.

DEVONSHIRE

Data types available: Demographics

Who is Devonshire?

Devonshire Associates Ltd. provides data to the nation’s leading media, retail, real estate and financial services firms. The company offers a robust Demographic Data Series as well as an Econometric Data Series that measures business and retail activity down to the neighborhood level. Its Business dmPLUS™ Database provides complete information on over 20 million business locations and its Consumer dmPLUS™ Database contains information on more than 124 million consumer households.

About Devonshire Data

• Demographic Data Series - Devonshire’s Demographic Data Series includes an extensive supply of core demographic variables, offering current-year estimates and 5-year projections of population, households, income, labor force, and housing.
• Econometric Data Series - Devonshire's Econometric Data Series marks the difference between potential and reality. Users get a full picture of consumer and business spending and actual sales activity in any market.
• Business Data Series – Devonshire's Business Data Series includes comprehensive information on every business location in the United States. Devonshire’s Retail MarketPoint™ platform holds data on over 40,000 shopping centers and 3,000 regional and national retail chains. The Business dmPLUS™ file contains inclusive business location data.
• Consumer Data Series –Devonshire's Consumer Data Series provides information about consumer households.
• SEA-RCH.com – SEA-RCH™ offers a range of products that have been designed specifically for media planners who must determine the most effective local search placements for their advertising. SEA-RCH™ is used by hundreds of publishers, agencies and advertisers who rely on its licensed media data, software and proprietary media planning services.

Learn more at http://devonline.com/.

INRIX

Data types available: Traffic Counts and Drive Times

Who is INRIX?

Founded in 2005, INRIX pioneered the practice of managing traffic by analyzing data not just from road sensors, but also from vehicles. This breakthrough approach enabled INRIX to become one of the leading providers of data and insight into how people move around the world. INRIX delivers innovative products for the automotive and transportation industries such as real-time parking and traffic information and solutions that facilitate the safe testing and deployment of autonomous vehicles. 

About INRIX Volume Profile Data

INRIX Volume Profile provides the historical data file of derived average count of vehicles by day of week and hour of day in 15 minute increments. Attributes include segment by segment typical count data for each 15 minutes of each day. 

Synergos Technologies Inc.

Data types available: Commuter Data

Who is Synergos Technologies (STI)?

Synergos Technologies Inc. has been helping companies better understand their U.S. markets since 1993. The company introduced the first affordable desktop mapping software in 1993 and the STI: PopStats™ product, the first quarterly population estimates, in 2001.

STI also introduced STI: Vortex VDB, the first comprehensive and affordable desktop mapping software. This was soon followed by a full slate of mapping data products.

In 2005, STI launched its second major product, an innovative consumer lifestyle segmentation system called STI: LandScape. LandScape helps companies understand and map consumers' purchasing propensities at the neighborhood-level.

Since then STI has continued to create leading-edge data products, including STI: BlockPoint, STI: WorkPlace, and STI: Spending Patterns. STI data is used by leading companies in retail, real estate, healthcare, telecommunications, finance, and other industries.

Founded in 2005, INRIX pioneered the practice of managing traffic by analyzing data not just from road sensors, but also from vehicles. This breakthrough approach enabled INRIX to become one of the leading providers of data and insight into how people move around the world. INRIX delivers innovative products for the automotive and transportation industries such as real-time parking and traffic information and solutions that facilitate the safe testing and deployment of autonomous vehicles. 

About Synergos Technologies (STI): PopStats Data

Note: PopStats includes commuter data, including drive times and traffic counts.

Since its launch in 2001, a growing number of progressive companies have come to depend on STI: PopStats™ quarterly population estimate's accurate, current, and robust population data. They use it to capture real population growth as it occurs, estimate population counts accurately at low geographic levels, gain in-depth knowledge about specific populations, access data for both historic growth trends and future forecasts—and much more.

• PopStats data captures population changes, whether up or down, as they occur —and in small geographic areas. Updated estimates are delivered on time every January, April, July, and October. Each update includes the current period and eight recent quarters of history.
• PopStats data uses a combination of unique source data from the U.S. Postal Service ZIP + 4 ® records and the U.S. Census, its own proprietary "bottom-up" methodology, and field tests to deliver the most dependable population estimates available.
• PopStats data gives companies an expanding range of consumer data. PopStats data has grown from 21 variables in 2001 to over 1,200 in 2009. Today researchers can access mortgage-risk data, seasonal data, transient data, eight quarters of historical data, and much more.

Learn more at http://www.synergos-tech.com/ps_intro.htm

INRIX Volume Profile provides the historical data file of derived average count of vehicles by day of week and hour of day in 15 minute increments. Attributes include segment by segment typical count data for each 15 minutes of each day. 

BING MAPS

Data types available: Mapping/Geography

Who is Bing Maps?

Bing Maps is a web mapping service provided as a part of Microsoft's Bing suite of search engines and powered by the Bing Maps for Enterprise framework.

About Bing Maps Data

• Global aerial and satellite imagery – Bing Maps aerial and satellite imagery has global coverage imagery up to 30cm/pixel resolution.
• Streetside imagery – Bing Maps provides 360-degrees of panoramic views that allow exploration of locations at street-level.
• Offline maps – Download maps for offline use.
• 3D maps – Features high-resolution 3D models of over 250 cities in 11 countries.
• Static map service – Includes a REST service, which can be used to retrieve images of maps. This can be useful when generating reports, embedding in emails or in situations where a fully interactive map isn’t needed.
• Autosuggest – Provides suggestions as someone types a location in a search box.
• Forward and reverse geocoding – Locate where an address or place is, or find an address or place that is at a specific location.
• Batch geocoding – The Bing Spatial Data Services provides a service for passing in up to 200,000 rows of data at once to be forward or reverse geocoded. The service will then take this data and process it on the Bing servers and return the data as a single file. This can significantly reduce the time, bandwidth and the number of requests an application would use to geocode large volumes of data.

Learn more at https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/maps.

GOOGLE MAPS

Data types available: Mapping/Geography

Who is Google Maps?

Google Maps is a web mapping service developed by Google. It offers satellite imagery, aerial photography, street maps, 360° panoramic views of streets (Street View), real-time traffic conditions, and route planning for traveling by foot, car, bicycle and air (in beta), or public transportation (Source: Wikipedia).

About Google Maps Data

Street View, by Google Maps, is a virtual representation of surroundings on Google Maps, consisting of millions of panoramic images. Street View’s content comes from two sources - Google and contributors.

Learn more at https://www.google.com/maps

REPORT ALL USA

Data types available: Parcel/Cadastral

Who is Report All?

• Covering more than 150.0 million parcels in over 3021 U.S. counties, Report All data architecture solves the problems associated with non-standardized parcel data between U.S. counties, regions and states. Report All imports and derives many important parcel attributes from a variety of sources into a single national parcel database to allow for analyses at regional and national levels.
• Any search result links to a variety of fully integrated web-based mapping systems: Google StreetView or Bing Maps bird's eye view are just a click away.
• A click on a result will jump to a pre-queried county auditor's page for full parcel detail.
• Additional features such as environmental (Flood zones, Wetlands, and Soils) and demographic (Census blocks and groups) are just a few of the resources included in the mapping system.
• Report All’s real estate parcel-based geospatial data solutions also include:

• A REST API for system-to-system integration
• LandGlide App for Apple and Android devices
• PARLAY for enhanced functionality with Google Earth
• The ability to download a complete county Shapefile on demand from Report All National Parcel Database

About ReportAll Data

ReportAll’s national database of real estate parcel data includes 150.0 million parcels covering 92.1% of all U.S. properties. This parcel data provides:

• Currency - The parcel boundary data is continuously maintained with over 90% updated within 12 months and 70% within 6 months.
• Coverage - Covering over 150.0 million parcels in over 3,021 U.S. counties
• Standardization – Report All patented data normalization and transformation processes simplify data interaction for search and full integration into any application.
• Complete Polygons – Unlike point only data, a Polygon format allows for the rendering in web and GIS applications and facilitates powerful analysis of location, area, dimensions, and neighboring properties. The data is deliverable in shapefile and other geo formats.

Learn more at https://reportallusa.com/.

OPENSTREETMAP

Data types available: Points of Interest

Who is OpenStreetMap?

OpenStreetMap powers map data on thousands of web sites, mobile apps, and hardware devices

About OpenStreetMap Data

OpenStreetMap is built by a community of mappers that contribute and maintain data about roads, trails, cafés, railway stations, and much more, all over the world.

• Local Knowledge - OpenStreetMap emphasizes local knowledge. Contributors use aerial imagery, GPS devices, and low-tech field maps to verify that OSM is accurate and up to date.
• Community Driven - OpenStreetMap's community is diverse, passionate, and growing every day. OpenStreetMap’s contributors include enthusiast mappers, GIS professionals, engineers running the OSM servers, humanitarians mapping disaster-affected areas, and many more.
• Open Data – OpenStreetMap is open data: anyone is free to use it for any purpose as long as they credit OpenStreetMap and its contributors. See the Copyright and License page for details.

Learn more at https://www.openstreetmap.org/about

BUILDCENTRAL

Data types available: Planned Construction

Who is BuildCentral?

BuildCentral is part of BCI Central and the Byggfakta Group, with global operations spanning the U.S., Canada, Europe, Australia, New Zealand, and Southeast Asia. BuildCentral is headquartered in Chicago, IL. The company collects data for planned real estate developments in verticals including commercial real estate, single-family and multi-family real estate, medical, hotel and retail/grocery developments, and the global renewable energy and mining sectors. 

About BuildCentral Data

BuildCentral relies upon 11,000 digital data sources to find construction projects in the early planning stages. The data undergoes a machine learning process to refine collection methods, and a team of human researchers review and publish the information into the data set every day. 

Data accuracy and precision are important to BuildCentral, and the company has two members of the research team review every project prior to publishing. Every month, data is reviewed for completeness, timeliness, and accuracy. 

Learn more at https://www.buildcentral.com

VISTA BY NEAR

Data types available: Mobile Phone Activity

Who is NEAR?

Near is the world's largest source of intelligence on people, places and products.

About Vista Data

Vista offers places data from 100+ countries, with historical data for up to 7 years. This aggregated and anonymized data offers users insights into where visitors are seen before or after a visit to a place, where a place gets most of its visitors from, visitor demographics based on Census data, visitor patterns within a place, day of week and time of day visitation, visitation over time and more. 

Learn more at www.near.com/vista.

PLACEIQ

Data types available: Mobile Phone Activity

Who is PLACEIQ?

Ten years ago, PlaceIQ invented location intelligence for the marketing and media space. Today, we are the leading data and technology company that helps businesses leverage location-based insights to connect with and understand audiences.

About PlaceIQ Data

PlaceIQ ingests and processes billions of movement and mapping data points into verified visit data. This proprietary visitation data helps users analyze consumer movement, develop smarter marketing strategies, and drive real-world consumer actions.

With PlaceIQ data, consumers can understand the cross-shopping behaviors of store visitors on a national or regional scale, analyze audiences who visit their brick-and-mortar stores, and understand competitive trends and behaviors of shoppers who visitor competitor locations.

Learn more at www.near.com/vista.