What is the Economic & Business Intelligence Service (EBIS) and who is it for?

The Economic and Business Intelligence Service (EBIS) is a subscription based service that provides regular up-to-date sub-national economic and business intelligence, briefings and insights in order to support the sub-regional economic development activity.

Hampshire County Council, Oxfordshire County Council, Surrey County Council, Coast to Capital Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP) and Enterprise M3 LEP have signed up for the service in 2012/13. The service has done some bespoke work for other non-subscribing local authorities e.g. Portsmouth City Council.  

The service is based upon two key strands of activity:

• the production of economic and business intelligence reports on a monthly basis, (See Economic & business intelligence reports tab )

• the provision of a more ‘bespoke’ service. (See Economic research, analysis & expertise tab)

Economic & Business Intelligence reports

The first strand consists of three timely (monthly) reports of publishable quality for each subscribing county/LEP:

Economy and Business Snapshot

• An update of the state of the economy that includes the latest business specific intelligence (job creation/losses and mergers and acquisitions) in the area.

  • Economy and Business Snapshot March 2013  124 kB
  • Economy and Business Snapshot Summary March 2013  44 kB
    
    

• Labour Market Update

  
  

  The report covers labour market performance at national, regional and sub-regional level (including LEPs and local authority districts).

  • Labour Market Update April 2013  3 MB  
  • Labour Market Update Summary April 2013  98 kB
    

• Business Dashboard

  
  

  A one page visual summary of the latest performance of a county/LEP against the benchmark area.

  • Business Dashboard April 2013  170 kB
  • Business Dashboard Summary April 2013  37 kB
    

• Quarterly reports:

  • Business Dashboard Q4 2012  141kb
  • Business Dashboard Summary Q4 2012  100kb

Economic & Business Intelligence Service expertise

This strand consist of:

• Presentations

  on economic and business issues, tailored to individual areas.

• Bespoke economic research

  – e.g. short economic appraisal and economic impact studies, sector-specific work.

• Advice to policy leads and research officers

  on economics/economic policy and research issues

This service can be tailored to ensure that it is responsive to customer requirements.

For further details about the service and the costs please contact: Ivan.Perkovic@hants.gov.uk