m.Seven® EIS (Executive Information System) is information system that combine many of the features of management information systems and decision support systems. when it was first developed, its focus was on meeting the strategic information needs of top management. Thus, the first goal of executive information system was to provide top executives with immediate and easy access to information about a firm's critical success factors (CSFs) - key factors that are critical to accomplishing an organization's strategic objectives - key performance indicators (KPIs) or the Target Scorecard. For example, the executives of a retail store chain would probably consider factors such as its e-commerce versus traditional sales results, or its product line mix, to be critical to its survival and success.

However, executive information systems are becoming so widely used by management, analysts, and other knowledge workers that they are sometimes jokely called "everyone's information systems". More popular alternative names are enterprise information system (EIS) and executive support system (ESS). These names also reflects that the fact that more features, such as Web browsing, electronic mail, groupware tools, and DSS and expert system capabilities, are being added to many systems to make them more useful to managers and business professionals.

In an EIS, information is presented in forms tailored to the preferences of the executives using the system. For examples, most executive information systems stress the use of a graphical user interface and graphics display that can be customized to the information preferences of executives using the EIS. Other information presentation methods used by an EIS include reporting and trend analysis. The ability to drill down, which allows executives to quickly retrieve displays of related information at lower levels of detail, is another important capability.

Masvent Technosoft has developed its genuine ready-to-customize executive information system, the m.Seven® EIS. Ready-to-customize means that Masvent has already all the generic moduls, such as the portal user interface builder, the database connectors, the standard presentation modules such as graphical, textual or multimedia, etc. The final product installed in a client will be much different with the one installed in other client. It will depend on the customization that will fit the client's need. The following figure shows one sample of the user interface of the m.Seven® EIS:

Executive Information System

Notice how simple and brief this display is. Also note how it provides users of the system with the ability to drill down quickly to the lower levels of detail in areas of particular interest of them. Beside the drill-down capability, the m.Seven® EIS also stressed trend analysis and reporting. Thus, a business user can quickly discover the direction key factors are heading and the extent to which critical factors are deviating from expected results.

Shortly said, m.Seven® EIS is a ready-to-customize application software that provides executives with brief, to the point, and easy to understand important organization information that is relevant with organization strategy and operation. The appearance of the m.Seven® EIS could vary from organization to organization. The product itself can be relatively easy to personalize as well as to customize to meet the specific needs. It extracts existing organization structured data (database, business intelligence cubes, etc.) as well as unstructured data and information. It has also capability to get data from outside organization operation such as from the internet.

• Simple dashboard-like user interface to ensure executives focus on the information summary. Completed with visual flag indicators to measure achievements.
• Easy to personalize and customize to meet organization specific needs.
• Balanced scorecard standard view of EIS with ability to be customized.
• Quick access to realtime data.
• Ability to generate charts, graphs and reports.
• Secure access with definition of user role and access right.
• Java™ web based application to ensure open platform, can be implemented in mostly any platform: Windows™, Linux, or Macintosh.
• Utilizing genuine Masvent engine µ.IntegrationBus™, a SOA (Service Oriented Architecture) based enterprise service bus (completed with its adapters) to ease interconnectivity to many kind of applications from many types. It supports application to application connectivity, view/portal based connectivity, as well as connectivity to databases. With this feature, m.Seven® EIS is ready to be connected with SAP R/3 or BusinessOne™, Oracle™ eBusiness Suite, Microsoft™ Dynamics / Navision and possesses possibility to connect with other prominent or legacy system.
• Could be connected to any major databases (RDBMS) such as Oracle™ 10g, Microsoft™ SQL® Server 2005, MySQL or PostGre.

Executive information system have spread into the ranks of middle management and business professional as their feasibility and benefits have been recognized and as less-expensive systems for client/server networks and corporate intranets became available. For example, one popular EIS software package reports that only 3 percent of its users are top executives.