Mainframe and microcomputer-based business graphics: end user computing comparisons and trends

摘要

This paper compares use of mainframe-based, microcomputer-based, and mixed computer-based business graphics in 200 organizations. It compares organizational, and technological environment, motivation for selection and use, functional area use, end users, organizational responsibility and support, application profiles, impediments to increased use, and forecasts for the future. It presents profiles of typical end users for both mainframe and micro computer groups with organizational environments and culture. In so doing, it provides empirical evidence for differing strategies of MIS involvement in the development of business graphics.