The Economic Development Partnership of Alabama is the latest statewide economic development organization to select GIS WebTech’s Recruit technology!EDPA is a private, non-profit organization funded by more than 60 Alabama companies that works to attract, retain and grow jobs in Alabama. The Partnership has been a key player in recruiting companies such as Mercedes-Benz, Boeing, […]
Read MoreAs you can see in the chart to the right, our company’s story is one of rapid growth through technological disruption. But none of it would be possible without the economic developers that have put their trust in us. We are blessed with an incredible group of clients, hard-working professionals dedicated to the communities they […]
Read MoreGIS WebTech is the leading innovator in GIS technology for economic development, driving record growth for our company and record results for our clients.We believe that technology is rapidly changing the way the economic development profession operates. We believe winning economic development organizations in coming years will be those that embrace technology and utilize it […]
Read MoreKey Takeaway: The site selection process usually begins with workforce as the first criterion, and to compete and win in today’s workforce-driven site selection process economic developers need to utilize modern technology that lets businesses start their site selection process with workforce data. GIS WebTech’s Recruit puts workforce data front and center on the landing page, […]
Read MoreGIS technology continues to advance rapidly, with useful new tools and data coming out regularly. The relentless pressures of competitive markets drive businesses to incorporate these advances to reduce risk associated with their location decisions. Leading economic development organizations, recognizing these competitive pressures and the growing demand from businesses for cutting-edge data and tools, respond by […]
Read MoreWhat is a legacy technology? A legacy online site selection system is an older software solution that provides basic online data and simple functionality, but lacks the most up-to-date data and interactive tools. As competitive pressures force businesses to focus relentlessly on improving their site selection processes with more and better data and increasingly sophisticated analysis, […]
Read MoreRegional Approach by Economic Development Leader. When we launched our all-new Recruit 4.5 a few months back, we knew it would change the way economic development organizations utilized technology. We also knew that leading economic development groups would be quick to utilize Recruit’s advanced features to highlight their communities, and that is exactly what our customers […]
Read MoreKey Takeaway: To be reliable, online site selection technologies must provide the most accurate data possible; they must offer analytical tools utilizing the latest advances to provide the most accurate results possible; and they must be available when businesses and site selectors want to use them. Economic development organizations running legacy technologies with non-Esri data, […]
Read MoreIntroducing Recruit 4.5! When we launched Recruit 4.0 we created a buzz in economic development. For the first time, economic developers could provide real-time access to the entire Esri demographic data set and offer advanced analytical tools like trucking time analysis, and do so in a simple and intuitive app designed with extensive input from businesses […]
Read MoreJust a few months ago I wrote that 2018 was another year of incredible growth at GIS WebTech. Depending on the metric, we were two to four times bigger at the end of 2018 than we were at the beginning, continuing the rapid growth we began with the launch of Recruit 4.0 in 2016.When we […]
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