Executive Information System (EIS)

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Produce a paper discussing the most critical characteristics or attributes of DSS or EIS in which you summarize your findings to support your position. Provide a title for your paper that clearly tells the reader what your paper is about, and be sure to cite and reference your sources.

Produce a two-page (double-spaced) position paper discussing your viewpoint on the topic and refer to the content from the articles to support your position.

Executive Information system and its uses

As per wikipedia
An Executive Information System (EIS) is a type of management information 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 a Decision Support System.
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.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_information_system

Our information system will provide following:

Management accounting Department/Finance Department
They require information for studying the relations between fixed costs, variable costs and profits. Break-even analysis helps in determining the point at which sales will just cover total costs or the break even point for a product is the point where total revenue received equals total costs (TR=TC). By having some variable and some fixed ...