26 September 2008

BI Glossary - Executive information systems (EIS)

Business Intelligence BI Glossary - Executive information systems (EIS)

A precursor to business intelligence systems. Before the democratization 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.

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