ArcGIS Business Analyst Web App uses artificial intelligence (AI) in a variety of ways throughout the software.
For more information about each AI capability and assistant, see the following:
- Use the Business Analyst assistant to explore intelligent suggestions and geographic context through prompts or search queries.
- Map points of interest using a semantic search to return attributes related to your keyword search terms.
- Use the data browser to find variables with semantic search, which returns results related to your search terms.
Before you can access the Business Analyst assistant, confirm the following requirements:
- Your ArcGIS Online administrator must configure AI.
- You must have the privilege to use AI assistants.
Credits
Using the Business Analyst assistant or enabling semantic search does not consume credits. However, the results displayed by the Business Analyst assistant may recommend a workflow that requires credits.
Feedback
To provide feedback about a response, click Positive feedback 
or Negative feedback 
to open a survey and provide your feedback. When you submit a survey, your feedback may be used to guide development of Esri products and documentation.
Security and privacy
The Business Analyst assistant aligns with the following principles:
- Prompts are not used to train Esri or third-party AI models.
- Prompts are not used to improve any Esri or third-party product or service.
- Prompts are not stored or shared unless you give explicit permission, such as when you provide feedback about the assistant.
- Prompts are not used to improve the assistant for your own use.
AI transparency cards are available with more security and privacy details.
Limitations and bias
Keep the following in mind when using the Business Analyst assistant:
- An ArcGIS Online organizational account is required to access the Business Analyst assistant. Other account types, such as public accounts, are not currently supported.
- Suggestions generated using AI can be misleading or inaccurate. To avoid potentially reinforcing any unintentional biases in the AI models used by the Business Analyst assistant, human judgement should be applied to interpreting and acting on the assistant's outputs.
- At its discretion, Esri may implement a rate limit on AI assistants to maintain performance.
Resources
Use the following resources to learn more: