Comshare shifts focus beyond EIS - Comshare Inc. enhances its Commander executive information system software and renames it a managerial software application - Newsfront - Brief Article

Software Magazine, Sept, 1992

As demand for Executive Information Systems (EIS) slows, market leader Comshare, Inc., Ann Arbor, Mich., has broadened the capabilities of its Commander software, creating what the company calls a managerial software application.

Richard Crandall, Comshare president and GEO, estimated that the tradtional ELS market--aimed at top corporate executives--stands at about $100 million. He also estimated that about $50 million of the firm's $120 million in 1991 revenues were from sales of EIS system. "So, we can't survive on EIS," Crandall said.

The new version of Commander adds capabilities to offer information to managers and analysts as well as executives, Crandall said. This version also begins to allow access to data stored in small servers. "A lot of this information is easy to get from a mainframe, but not from a client/server system. This brings us into the client/server world," he said.