Combines US, state, or county economic and demographic
data, project specifications, and company business scenarios including
capital investment, utility usage, and other operating costs and headcount.
Provides nationwide data and links to other databases.
Allows manual updates of location data, project specifications,
and business scenarios.
Screens, compares, and ranks candidate locations
according to your selected criteria.
Creates one or more business scenarios from evolving
or incomplete projections, either by using the DEALS wizards or by exporting
the DEALS template to Microsoft Excel™, creating one or more scenarios
in Excel™, and then importing them into DEALS.
Calculates and compares “apples-to-apples”
the relative cost of doing business, including start-up and operating
costs in alternative locations, transactions, and business scenarios.
Evaluates changes in these costs due to actual or
“what if” changes in business plans, market conditions, project
data, location details, and incentive packages.
Produces bottom line, net present value results of
decision choices.
Guides the determination of the optimal operating
environment for a business, relative to a location‘s constraints
or flexibility.
Tracks negotiation progress and values negotiation
deal points.
Permits annotations throughout the modeling process
to document project discussions, negotiations, and decisions.
Prints financial details and summaries, location
profiles, notes, charts, and graphs.