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11.7 Hardware and Software
EIS Hardware
– Mainframe computers using graphics terminals – Personal computers connected to a mainframe, a
minicomputer, or a powerful RISC workstation – Departmental LAN or a clientserver architecture
– An enterprise-wide network, or on a clientserver
enterprise-wide system. Workstations perform high-speed graphics displays
EIS Enterprise Information System, Everybody’s Information System
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EIS Software
Major Commercial EIS Software Vendors
– Comshare Inc. Ann Arbor, MI; http:www.comshare.com
– Pilot Software Inc. Cambridge, MA; http:www.pilotsw.com
Application Development Tools
– In-house components – Comshare Commander tools
– Pilot Software’s Command Center Plus and
Pilot Decision Support Suite
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Producing Specialized EIS Applications
Comshare, Inc.’s Commander Series
– Commander FDC for consolidation, reporting, and
analysis of financial information – Commander Budget Plus
for budget development and multidimensional planning
– Commander Prism for personal multidimensional
analysis and modeling – Arthur
- a family of supply chain focused applications for retailing planning, allocation and tracking
– Boost Application Suite - a decision support solution
for the consumer goods industry Boost Sales and Margin Planning, Boost Sales Analysis
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Pilot Software, Inc. – Budget 2000
with EPS, Inc. is a budgeting application that includes the power of Pilot
Decision Support Suite for budget preparation
– In Touch2000 is a software agent that enables
organizations to instantly create personal cubes multidimensional databases, sales
reports, budget forecasts and marketing plans
– Sales Marketing Analysis Library of Pilot
Decision Support Suite to perform detailed business reporting for sales and marketing
professionals
More EIS Software
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Software
Typically Includes
– Office Automation – Electronic Mail
– Information Management – Remote Information Access
– Information Analysis
Representative List of EIS Software Products
Table W11.
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Product Vendor
Command Center Pilot Software, Inc.
Commander DeskView, Commander Decision
Comshare, Inc. Commander EIS, EIS LAN;
Commander Decision Comshare, Inc.
DSS Executive Micro Strategy Inc.
Easel Workbench, ENFIN Easel Corp.
EIS Tool Kit Ferox Microsystems, Inc.
Executive Decisions IBM Corp.
ExpressEIS Information Resources, Inc.
FocusEIS; EDAEIS Information Builders, Inc.
Forest and Trees Trinzic Corp.
GENTIA Planning Sciences
Holos Holistic Systems, Inc.
IMRS On Track IMRS Inc.
Notes Lotus Development Corp.
Pilot Decision Support Suite V5 Pilot Software, Inc.
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Warehousing, OLAP, Multidimensional Analysis, Presentation, and the Web
When data are delivered and viewed by an executive, by definition, the software
is considered to be an EIS
Data warehouses as data sources for EIS
Advanced data visualization methods and hypermedia within EIS
Comshare, Inc.’s Execu-View
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TABLE 11.8 EIS Hardware Options
Option EIS Information Source
User Interface
1 Mainframe or minicomputer
or RISC Workstation Graphical terminal dumb
2 Mainframe or minicomputer
or RISC Workstation PCs
3 LAN-based PCs or servers on
a departmental clientserver PCs regular, GUI
4 Enterprise-wide network
many possible databases PCs regular, GUI
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Intranet via a Web
Browser within the EIS
Comshare Commander DecisionWeb
Internet Publishing module of the Pilot Decision Support Suite
On-line Analytical Processing OLAP Tools
– Slice-and-dice multidimensional data cube
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OLAP Packages
DSS Web MicroStrategy, Inc.
Oracle Express Server Oracle Corp.
Commander DecisionWeb Comshare, Inc.
DataFountain Dimensional Insight Inc.
Pilot Internet Publisher Pilot Software, Inc.
WebOLAP Information Advantage Inc.
Focus Fusion Information Builders, Inc.
Business Objects Inc. Business Objects
InfoBeaconWeb Platinum Technology, Inc.
BrioQuery Brio Technology Inc.
Data multidimensionality - In Touch2000 - Pilot personal cubes
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Decision Support Suite
Clientserver, LAN-based, Windows-based software product was Lightship
Pilot Desktop for ad hoc end-user data access
Pilot Designer for development of executive information applications
Pilot Analysis Server for access to multidimensional data models
Pilot Discovery Server for data mining and predictive modeling
Pilot Internet Publisher for publishing multidimensional data on the World Wide Web
Pilot Sales Marketing Library for a specific vertical market
Excel Add-in - OLAP front end with Pilot Analysis Server
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11.9 Enterprise EIS
