IMPLAN Blog

For decades, IMPLAN has empowered organizations to understand the ripple effects of economic activity. Until now, that view has centered on backward linkages: how industries support others through what they purchase. But today, we’re proud to announce a breakthrough that flips the script.

With the release of IMPLAN’s Forward Linkages Insights, you can now follow the story in the other direction, capturing how price changes and industry contributions cascade forward through supply chains, shaping costs, outputs, and opportunities across the broader economy.

This isn’t just another feature update. It’s a new lens for economic impact analysis, unlocking downstream effects in ways never before possible in IMPLAN.

Economic impact analysis isn’t just for those with years of experience in the field of economics anymore. 

For decades, IMPLAN has been the tool that economists and researchers turn to when they want to measure the impact of an economic event on a region. IMPLAN has long been trusted to deliver easy-to-use impact modeling, and extensive economic analytics. A few months ago, the IMPLAN Product Development team launched Quick Start Guides, which make it possible for those without an economics background to perform economic impact analysis quickly and easily by following a series of prompts that appear on the screen inside the application.

IMPLAN’s ever-expanding data suite just got even better. We’re excited to announce the release of our newest occupation data. This latest release comes with significant updates and enhancements that offer valuable insights into occupational trends and their impact on the economy.

Economic impact analysis isn’t just for those with years of experience in the field of economics anymore. 

If you’ve logged into IMPLAN Cloud in the last month, you may have noticed that the app has undergone a makeover! While we frequently make updates and improvements to IMPLAN Cloud, we’re particularly excited about this batch of changes to our user interface. Our Product Development team has been hard at work making it easier than ever to perform economic impact analysis, and we’re so excited to show you what’s new in the IMPLAN Cloud application.

Did you know that the IMPLAN application programming interface (API) makes it possible for National Package subscribers to integrate IMPLAN Cloud with existing workflows and tools? With IMPLAN’s API, you can easily integrate IMPLAN Cloud impact analysis and data into any website, application, workflow, or visualization tool.

It’s about time IMPLAN makes it possible to conduct studies beyond the United States, eh? We are pleased to announce our new and improved Canada Provincial Product, in which Canada data pairs with our state-of-the-art software and model to empower our users to study economic impacts across the Great White North.

The news is out! By now, you’ve probably heard that IMPLAN has retired Pro. 

Data season has finally come to a close which means that the latest IMPLAN Data Year is now available! Here's what's new in this data release:

IMPLAN’s economists have completed our newest Census of Employment and Wages (CEW) data set which is now available for purchase. A lot of work goes into delivering the best, most detailed CEW data out there. And since we have CEW data for all counties for all years back to 2001, it makes for fantastic statistical and trend analysis for anyone wanting to look deeper into the U.S. wage and salary business sphere.