Business Analyst Assistant (preview) is an in-app productivity tool that uses artificial intelligence to recommend popular workflows, data, infographic reports, and tips. It provides intelligent suggestions and understands geographic context through prompts or search queries.
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For more information on the assistant, including step-by-step instructions, examples, best practices, and preferences, see Use Business Analyst Assistant (preview).
Get started
To get started with Business Analyst Assistant (preview), do the following:
- To access the assistant, click Business Analyst Assistant (preview)
on the app header. - Either click a suggestion to build your query or enter a prompt that includes a topic and location you are interested in. Click Generate to perform your query.
- To interact with the suggestions, you can create or modify the suggested content, generate more suggestions, show tips, and provide feedback.
- To clear your query history and start over, click Restart
at any time. - To change the display options of the Assistant (preview) window, click Display options
.
Note:
Your ArcGIS Online administrator needs to configure assistants before you can access Business Analyst Assistant (preview).
Guidelines
The following are guidelines that will help you be more successful in Business Analyst Assistant (preview):
- To use the assistant, either select a suggested prompt or enter your own prompt to generate suggestions. Use the prompt suggestions as a resource for forming your own search queries. A well-formed query is short and direct; verbose queries take longer for the assistant to process.
- You can click tips, which provide instructional guidance on writing prompts and performing workflows, similar to taking a guided tour. Enter a question in the assistant's prompt field and click Show tip to learn how to complete tasks in Business Analyst Web App.
Credits
Using Business Analyst Assistant (preview) does not consume credits. However, the results displayed may recommend a workflow that requires credits.
Feedback
To provide feedback about a specific response, click the 
or 
and complete the survey. The feedback may be used to guide further development of the assistant.
Security and privacy
Business Analyst Assistant (preview) 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
- 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
Esri is dedicated to mitigating bias within our AI assistants. Business Analyst Assistant (preview) is developed with a filter that proactively blocks offensive language and avoids sensitive or biased associations. Suggestions generated using artificial intelligence can be misleading or inaccurate. To avoid potentially reinforcing any unintentional biases in the AI models used by Business Analyst Assistant (preview), human judgement should be applied to interpreting and acting upon the assistant's outputs.
Use the feedback feature in the assistant to report on the effectiveness of this filter to help us improve our models in the future.
Resources
Use the following resources to learn more: