Offered by Economic Developers Alberta (EDA), AlbertaBusinessCounts provides a consistent province-wide method for gathering data needed to identify and analyze business needs at the local, regional and provincial level. Sign up for AlbertaBusinessCounts here

EDA holds the provincial master license for Executive Pulse, software designed to collect and analyze data on existing industries in Alberta. A special licensing agreement enables EDA to make this software available to economic development organizations.

EDA believes business retention and expansion programs are best performed as a community driven activity to maximize local development of existing industry. Each community or region develops its own approaches to conduct business outreach. A robust CRM is an integral part of this approach.

Benefits

Key benefits in using this system are:

• User friendly. Interfaces with Outlook, Microsoft Office program and can import/export into Quickbooks and mobile devices
   
• Immediate. Access to thousands of existing pre-defined and user-friendly economic and business development, labour and project management surveys for outreach and contact relationship management

• Streamlined. Gathering datasets, layering of analytics to track corporate hierarchies on a local, national and international level, link value-chain/third party contacts to companies or land developments

• Dynamic. Highly functional reporting capacity and analytics converting data into competitive intelligence

• Wide-spread. Software has the highest use of economic development organizations in North America providing a seamless collection of regional and provincial competitive intelligence for marketing campaigns