An Executive Information System (EIS) is a computer-based system intended to facilitate and support the information and decision making needs of senior executives by providing easy access to both internal and external information relevant to meeting the strategic goals of the organization. It is commonly considered as a specialized form of Decision Support System (DSS). Decision making is the cognitive process of selecting a course of action from among multiple alternatives. ... Information as a concept bears a diversity of meanings, from everyday usage to technical settings. ... An organization (U.S. spelling) or organisation (U.K. spelling) is a formal group of people with one or more shared goals. ... Decision support systems are a class of computerized information systems that support decision making activities. ...
The emphasis of EIS is on graphical displays and easy-to-use user interfaces. They offer strong reporting and drill-down capabilities. In general, EIS are enterprise-wide DSS that help top-level executives analyze, compare, and highlight trends in important variables so that they can monitor performance and identify opportunities and problems. EIS and data warehousing technologies are converging in the marketplace. The user interface is the part of a system exposed to users. ... In computer science and mathematics, a variable is a symbol denoting a quantity or symbolic representation. ... A data warehouse is a record of an enterprises past transactional and operational activities, stored in a database. ...
A data warehouse is, primarily, a record of an enterprises past transactional and operational information, stored in a database designed to favor efficient data analysis and reporting (especially OLAP). ... Decision support systems are a class of computerized information systems that support decision making activities. ... An expert system is a class of computer programs developed by researchers in artificial intelligence during the 1970s and applied commercially throughout the 1980s. ... OLAP is an acronym for online analytical processing. ... OLAP is an acronym for On Line Analytical Processing. ...
References
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