Executive Information System (EIS)

Executive Information System (EIS) : A graphical application that supports executive processes, decisions, and information requirements. Presents highly summarised data with drill-down capability, and access to key external data.

[Category=Data Quality ]

Source: Larry English, http://www.iaidq.com/main/glossary.shtml , 25-Jan-2009 13:18

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Executive information system (EIS) - An Executive Information System (EIS) is a specialized form of a Decision Support System (DSS). It's a type of management information system intended to facilitate and support the information and decision making needs of senior executives through graphical displays, easy-to-use user interfaces, and drill-down capabilities. In recent years, the term EIS has been generally replaced by the term Business Intelligence (BI).

[Category=Data Governance ]

Source: The Data Governance Institute, 03 December 2009 10:09:32, http://www.datagovernance.com/glossary-governance/

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Executive information system (EIS) - Tools programmed to provide canned reports or briefing books to top-level executives. They offer strong reporting and drill-down capabilities. Today these tools allow ad hoc querying against a multi-dimensional database, and most offer analytical applications along functional lines such as sales or financial analysis.

[Category=Information Management ]

Source: Information-Management.com, 18 June 2010 08:30:33, http://www.information-management.com/glossary/e.html

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Executive information system (EIS) - Tools programmed to provide canned reports or briefing books to top-level executives. They offer strong reporting and drill-down capabilities. Today these tools allow ad-hoc querying against a multi-dimensional database, and most offer analytical applications along functional lines such as sales or financial analysis.

[Category=Data Warehousing ]

Source: Sun.com, 28 July 2010 10:11:19, http://www.sun.com/third-party/dw/brochures/67198.Acrobat.pdf

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Executive Information System (EIS) - A reporting application targeted for use by executives. Usually such applications have extremely user-friendly, graphical interfaces with a small local data store derived from connection to a data warehouse. It is often used synonymously with decision support system.

[Category=Data Warehousing ]

Source: Aexis Business Intelligence, 06 December 2010 09:42:24, http://www.aexis.eu/DataWarehouse-Glossary/

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Executive Information systems (EIS) - A precursor to business intelligence systems. Before the democratisation of information, customized views of business data was accessible only by a limited elite of senior executives via EIS systems. EIS systems were typically expensive to build and difficult to modify, hence slow to adapt to the rapidly changing needs of modern corporations.

[Category=Business Intelligence ]

Source: ElegantJ BI Business Intelligence, 30 October 2012 10:07:22, http://www.elegantjbi.com/resources/glossary_a.htm