Executive Information

Systems (EIS)
Group 24
AH20124 – Pareek Urvashi
AH20139 – Grace Lois
 Contents
• Introduction
• Features of EIS or ESS
• Operating system & graphic client interface
• Components of EIS or ESS
• Factors Influencing The Functioning of Executive System
• The Success of Executive Information System lies in two issues
• Application of EIS
• Future trends in Executive Information System
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Introduction
• An Executive Information System (EIS), also known as an Executive Support System (ESS)
is a type of management support system that facilitates and supports senior executive
information and decision-making needs.
• EIS need to empower executives and senior managers to make better, more informed
decisions. Inaccurate or outdated data in executives' hands can have dire
consequences for companies trying to shift their resources to their most
strategically valuable projects.  
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Features of EIS or ESS

• Information Technology – IT will cooperate and play an essential role in creation of
association information systems.
• Equipment – It is required by the executive department at any
company/organization must focus on the needs of the executives. There are some basic
equipment required by any distinctive EIS:
• Central Processing Unit, storage files, monitor or printer and entry devices.
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Operating System & Graphic Client Interface

• To run an efficient EIS, it is vital to select an accurate operating system.
• For that reason, software mechanism and how its parts assimilate the information into a
solo system are significant.
• GCI - It is essential for the clients to utilize the EIS for the benefit of the organization.
• To construct an efficient EIS, client interface is necessary.
• Many kinds of client interfaces are available to be added to the EIS. 
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Components of EIS or ESS

• Hardware – It is used to operate the information system executive.
• Software – It displays only reports and graphs without any input other then the login
process.
• User Interface – This should be made user friendly and simplem, so that executives
can immediately understand without having to do the training in advance.
• Telecommunications - The integration of databases and MIS for displaying data.
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Factors Influencing The Functioning of

Executive System
 Organization lies and render the necessary supporting functions to the senior managers
setups:
• Policies and procedures followed.
• Ex. If company believes in centralization of authority and hesitates to delegate authority
then EIS will be provided for top managers in the organization.
 Internal and external factors:-
• Connect directly or indirectly with the organization.
• Ex. If matters relating to compliance of tax, audit and other statutory matters are
handled by the senior managers only then EIS will be targeted to them alone.
• On the other hand if clerical labour is also involved in the same procedures EIS they will
also be able to access.
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The Success of Executive Information System

lies in two issues
• Firstly:- The information should properly reach the concerned executives.

• Secondly:- They should accord importance and act upon it. Above all whatever they say must be
given due consideration by the decision making authority.
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Application of EIS
• Manufacturing:- Basically, marketing is the transformation of the raw materials into finished goods
for sale, or intermediate processes involving the production or finished of semi-manufactures.
• Marketing:- In an organization marketing executives’ role is to create the future. The main duty in
managing available marketing resources to create.
• Financial:- A financial analysis is one of the most important steps to companies today. EIS enables
executive to focus more on the long-term basis of current year and beyond. Executive needs to use
financial ratios and cash flow analysis to estimate the trend and make capital investment decisions.
• In Government use:- EIS in government have been constructed to track data about ministerial
correspondence, safe management, worker performance , finances, and human recourses' to name
only few.
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• Example:- The Sutter Home Winery uses mostly external data, including information
from the internet, in its ESS.
It organized the information in order to help executives make decisions based
on trends in the market place. The information includes data on competitors and
information from market research Sutter uses its system output to determine sales
forecasts, marketing complains, and investment plans.
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Future trends in Executive Information

System
 The future of executive info system will not be bound by mainframe computer systems. This
trend allows executives escaping from escaping from learning different computer operating
systems and substantially decreases the implementation costs for companies. Because utilizing
existing software applications lies in this trend, executives will also eliminate the need to leam a
new or special language for the EIS package. Future executive information systems will not only
provide a system that supports senior executives, but also contain the information needs for
middle managers .
 In short there will be:-
• The intelligent EIS • The informed EIS
• The multimedia EIS • The connected EIS