Chapter 12: Executive Information Systems
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Decision Support Systems

Vicki L. Sauter

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What is an EIS

Table 12.1: Information Needs to Be Met by an EIS

Table 12.2: Modeling Needs to Be Met By an EIS

Table 12.3: user Interface Needs to Be Met by an EIS

Figure 12.1: EIS Easy-to-Use Interfaces. Screens are from Focus/EIS for Windows

How EIS Are Used

Figure 12.2: EIS Drill-Down Ability. Screens are from Focus/EIS for Windows

Table 12.4: Sample EIS Adoption Criteria

Available Packages

Figure 12.3: Pilot Decision Support Software

Table 12.5: Selected Commercial EIS Software Providers

Figure 12.4: Comshare's Commander EIS

Figure 12.4a: Control site

Figure 12.4b: Desktop folders contain alerts of the most important exceptions within a multidimensional database. Automatic surveillance of large database helps ensure managers they're not missing something important

Figure 12.4c: Briefly book screen with choice of items for dynamic reporting

Figure 12.4d: Exception reporting for managers

Figure 12.5: EIS from SAS

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