The executive information systems (EIS) of the 1980s stayed in the executive suite and provided fancy pie charts of financial data. But now these business-intelligence tools have found a new home in the cubicles. They've also found some new names: "dashboards and scorecards," says John Hagerty, an analyst at AMR Research Inc. In Boston. "We are now seeing them all over the enterprise, and for a variety of reasons." Hagerty says more than half of the 135 companies he recently surveyed are implementing dashboards, which are also spreading into various nonfinancial departments (see chart, next page). Dashboards aren't just for financial data anymore. "At Southwest Airlines, they call them 'cockpits,' and they're specialized so that the guy in charge of putting peanuts on airplanes gets a different view than the guy who's in charge of purchasing jet fuel," says John Kopcke, chief technology officer at software vendor Hyperion Solutions Corp.
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机译：1980年代的行政信息系统（EIS）保留在行政套件中，并提供了精美的财务数据饼图。但是现在，这些商务智能工具已经在隔间中找到了新家。他们还发现了一些新名称：“仪表板和记分卡”，位于波士顿的AMR Research Inc.分析师约翰·哈格蒂（John Hagerty）说。 “由于各种原因，我们现在在企业中看到了它们。”哈格蒂说，在他最近调查的135家公司中，有超过一半的公司正在实施仪表板，这些仪表板还分布到各个非财务部门（请参见下页图表）。仪表板不再仅仅用于财务数据。首席技术官约翰·科普克（John Kopcke）表示：“在西南航空，他们称它们为“驾驶舱”，而且他们专门化，因此负责将花生放在飞机上的人与负责购买喷气燃料的人的看法有所不同。”软件供应商Hyperion Solutions Corp.的主管
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