HYPERMEDIA - THE FUTURE OF EIS

Executive Information Systems (EIS) are designed to assist senior exec utives in accessing and using information more effectively. An importa nt focus is on enhancing executive effectiveness in identifying and di agnosing strategic problems and opportunities. Typical EIS features in clude the ability to ''drill-down'' to successive levels of informatio n detail; exception reporting; on-line access to external information utilities; menu-driven operation; superior graphics; and data integrat ion from spreadsheets, databases, and text.