Method for providing an industry report
View Patent ↗A method for providing business information comprises receiving a request, a selected industry, and a selected region, then generating report data, and providing a printable industry report. The industry report has charts and a map and is divided into a national market overview section, a market dynamics section, and a company information section. A system for providing business information has an application server, a web server, and a memory, such as a database. The application server fabricates a data product. The web server processes requests from the application server and provides the data product in an industry report. The web server includes charting and mapping components. For rapid retrieval, the database stores a table of company information.
1. A system for generating an industry report, said system comprising:
an application server;
a memory having data stored therein;
a display; and
a web server that processes a request from said application server for a fabricated data product based on said data, wherein said fabricated data product is prepared in accordance with a user making a selection from a set of options that includes a new report, a report for an industry that is similar to another industry, and a report selected from a company information page,
wherein said application server:
(a) evaluates whether said fabricated data product includes information about a desired industry, and proceeds according to the following rules:
if said fabricated data product does not include information about said desired industry, then said application server prompts a user to conduct an industry keyword search of said data until said information about said desired industry is found, else
if said fabricated data product does include said information about said desired industry, then said application server prompts said user to select a geographical region, and thereafter
(b) evaluates whether a number of companies in said geographical region satisfies a predetermined threshold, and proceeds according to the following rules:
if said number of companies in said geographical region does not satisfy a predetermined threshold, then said application server prompts said user to alter said geographical region until said predetermined threshold is met, else
if said number of companies in said geographical region meets said predetermined threshold, then said application server prompts said user to confirm a purchase of said industry report, wherein said industry report is stored into said memory and presented on said display.