Industry Solutions
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Industries we serve.
With over 30 years of experience, we’ve developed relationships and knowledge in 7 industries nationally to best serve our customers.
Retail
In the dynamic landscape of the retail industry, strategic decision-making is often the dividing line between success and stagnation. Datastory solutions are a beacon for retailers, merchandisers, and category managers alike, offering actionable insights tailored to their unique challenges.
Retailers, in their quest to expand and optimize store locations, can leverage Datastory's advanced location intelligence to identify high-potential areas, understand market saturation, and assess the competitive landscape.
For merchandisers, the Datastory platform's granular data analytics assist in crafting effective product displays and store layouts by highlighting consumer behavior patterns and regional preferences.
Category managers, often tasked with ensuring the right product mix and shelf placement, can use Datastory’s solutions to derive data-backed strategies that align with both consumer demand and profitability goals.
In essence, Datastory’s solutions stand as unifying tools in the retail industry, turning data into actionable strategies and ensuring businesses remain agile in the face of market shifts.
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Localize Your Category Strategy to Drive Growth
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Visualize How Your Location can Optimize a Data-driven Retail Strategy
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Hurricane Season is Still in Full Swing: Is Your Business Prepared?
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Tapping into Data at the Ace Hardware Convention
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Strategic growth fueled by innovative market insight
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TradeWeb Analysis - Understand and optimize your network of locations.
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Lifestyle Profile Analysis - Transform a simple spreadsheet into analytic insights.
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NAIOP Maryland Informs Decision Makers Through the Lens of a Map
Real Estate
In the complex and ever-evolving world of real estate, making informed decisions quickly is paramount. Datastory emerges as a game-changing solution provider, directly addressing the most pressing business challenges across various sub-sectors of the industry.
For real estate developers, it offers a refined lens to understand market development opportunities, ensuring that investments are directed towards areas with maximum growth potential.
Investors and Portfolio Managers benefit from enhanced site selection capabilities, enabling them to pinpoint locations for acquisition and/or development that align perfectly with business objectives, tenant needs, and market demand.
Real estate brokers are empowered with data-driven insights that can be leveraged to provide clients with unparalleled advice on property purchases, sales, and market trends.
By converging data analytics with location intelligence, Datastory provides a holistic solution, streamlining decision-making processes and ensuring optimal outcomes for all real estate stakeholders.
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MapDash™ for Real Estate: A One-Stop-Shop for CRE Location Intelligence
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MapDash - A Solution for Low Income Housing Tax Credit Developers
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How John Schultz is Working Smarter, Not Harder, as a Tenant Rep Broker
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How David Hicks is Raising the Level of His Game
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MacKenzie Real Estate & Upstream Physical Therapy: Location Intelligence Enables Rapid Growth
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Newmark Grubb Levy Strange Beffort Helps Clients Make Better Decisions, Faster
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Stellar Development Gains Clarity in New Markets
Nonprofit
The nonprofit sector, while driven by purpose and altruism, faces a myriad of operational challenges that require astute decision-making. Datastory solutions are tailored to address the specific needs of the nonprofit industry.
For organizations striving for membership growth, Datastory solutions employ location intelligence to uncover untapped regions and demographics, helping tailor outreach efforts for maximum impact.
When it comes to mission or program advancement, the platform offers analytics that track program efficacy, enabling organizations to optimize resources and strategies to meet their objectives more effectively.
Fundraisers can leverage its data-driven insights to identify potential donors, strategize campaigns, and forecast giving trends, ensuring that funds are continually raised to sustain the cause.
Foundation managers can utilize Datastory solutions to monitor grant distributions, assess community impact, and streamline operations, guaranteeing that their efforts are both efficient and far-reaching.
In a nutshell, Datastory solutions stand as an indispensable ally for nonprofits, turning intricate data into actionable strategies that amplify impact and further their cause.
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YMCA of the USA: Changing Lives with Location Intelligence
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The Children’s Guild: A Wider Welcome Through Mapping
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Live Baltimore: Sharing Their Love for City Living
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Downtown Partnership of Baltimore Spurs Healthy Businesses Using Maps
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Autism After 21: An Invisible Story Worth Telling
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Datastory’s work recognized at Esri Federal GIS Conference
Economic Development
In an era where data-driven insights are integral to strategic decision-making, Datastory's solutions, armed with location intelligence, are a formidable ally for economic development organizations.
Economic Development Organizations (EDOs) who need to tell their story through a data-grounded method, Datastory solutions provide visually stunning and interactive tours of their community's proximity, workforce, and opportunity.
Business Improvement Districts (BIDs), whose mission is to keep their cities clean, healthy, and safe, can leverage MapDash to see the interconnected elements of the residential and business landscape.
Regional Collaboratives, who need to tell a shared story about the broader economic landscape, can leverage Datastory solutions to access a coordinated data library and advance a regional narrative that elevates a wide range of stakeholders.
By weaving together the threads of location-specific data, Datastory provides economic development organizations with a robust narrative, empowering them to market their communities as prime destinations for diverse stakeholders.
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“Goal Achieved” - Helping Montgomery County, Maryland Retain Marriott International
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Harford County: Live here, work here, thrive here.
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Metropolitan Washington Wins Amazon HQ2?
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Montgomery County’s Powerful Story—Powerfully Told
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Montgomery Business Development Corporation Helps Businesses Thrive
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Promoting Happiness, Health, and Wealth in West Baltimore
Faith Communities
In the sphere of faith communities, where engagement, outreach, and understanding are paramount, Datastory’s solutions infuse location intelligence as a pivotal tool. By providing congregational and diocesan leaders with data-rich maps that shed light on congregation locations, nuanced population characteristics, and pressing community issues, it offers a deeper understanding of their surrounding community.
Such insights, when coupled with the visual representation of 15-minute drive time boundaries and the areas where congregations wield the most influence, enable church leaders to craft strategies that resonate with local demographics, fostering both sustainability and vitality.
Furthermore, the information offered by Datastory ensures that missional planning is rooted in actual community needs and dynamics, paving the way for churches to make decisions that not only enhance their relevance but also amplify their positive impact on the communities they serve.
Education
The vital educational challenges revolve around enrollment, curriculum, program and service development, career development, and community support. Education providers in K-12, public and private settings, and post-secondary and graduate education face challenges in these areas.
An enrollment strategy begins with an understanding of enrollment patterns of current and past student populations and then identifying areas of opportunity for enrollment growth. Datastory solutions elevate your insights about enrollment patterns and provide actionable insights into where you can grow engagement and new opportunities.
Program alignment with the community workforce is more critical now than ever. MapDash + Analytics helps educational institutions understand the status and needs of relevant communities, helping them create new and better programs that align with the local business landscape.
Workforce development depends upon an understanding of the specific needs of the local employer base. Datastory solutions help educational leaders align those needs with current programs to build specific collaborations between employers and education providers. This alignment positions you as a community anchor that benefits the student, the employer, the education provider, and the community.
In essence, Datastory ensures that organizations in the education business can leverage location intelligence to grow enrollment, collaboration, brand value, and ultimately, the bottom line.
Healthcare
In the intricate and dynamic world of healthcare, where the right location can greatly impact service delivery and patient access, Datastory’s solutions are indispensable tools.
Specialty (or multispecialty) providers, who must navigate a complicated reimbursement landscape, often seek market expansion and greater market penetration in areas that drive elective procedures. These higher-margin service offerings provide revenue that balances the narrow margin of routine and preventative business reimbursed at lower levels.
Ancillary providers depend on the nearby presence of referring providers and are in demographically strong areas. Their most significant revenue opportunity is to find geographic locations that drive high visits.
Hospitals and health systems often perform some data and analytics capabilities using in-house staff; however, the business leaders in these organizations still need to be satisfied with the breadth, depth, and timeliness of the insights these in-house teams can provide. These organizations are ripe for the quick-win and deep-wide impact that MapDash can provide, accelerating and expanding the reach of in-house staff.
Senior living and senior care organizations are a hybrid of healthcare and specialized property management catering to the care of adults age 55+. Datastory solutions help these businesses thoughtfully expand their portfolio through a market-aligned mix of independent living, assisted living, and nursing care.
By leveraging insights from Datstory, healthcare professionals can not only increase their patient list but also ensure they are providing essential services in areas where they are most needed, optimizing both business growth and community impact.
