{"id":11856,"date":"2007-02-22T18:11:42","date_gmt":"2007-02-22T17:11:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/192.220.58.236\/blog\/?p=10"},"modified":"2007-02-22T18:11:42","modified_gmt":"2007-02-22T17:11:42","slug":"sap_buys_an_eis_pioneer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/2007\/02\/sap_buys_an_eis_pioneer.html","title":{"rendered":"SAP Buys an EIS Pioneer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SAP <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sap.com\/company\/press\/press.epx?pressid=7334\">just purchased<\/a> Pilot Software, which first came out with an executive information system (EIS) in 1986. I remember evaluating Pilot Lightship, a windows-based EIS solution, in 1992 or so. Then they had almost no discernable impact on mainstream BI for fifteen years, only to pop up recently as a &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pilotsoftware.com\/news\/pr_news\/pr_051506.html\">company to watch<\/a>&#8221; according to Intelligent Enterprise.<\/p>\n<p>They were a pioneer in the Balanced Scorecard space and it looks like they have developed some deep expertise in that area, notably in features to support &#8220;real-world&#8221; implementations, in all their complexity. For example, they support&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pilotsoftware.com\/pilotworks\/features\/entry_approval\/\">delegated collection of metrics<\/a> for KPIs that can&#8217;t easily be sourced automatically from internal systems, and support for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pilotsoftware.com\/company\/popups\/pop_init_prioritization.html\">initiative prioritization<\/a> with complex relationships between initiatives and metrics.<\/p>\n<p>Performance managment is more developed in the public sector than in commercial organizations, because they have to track more objectives than just profit. It&#8217;s therefore no surprise that Pilot&#8217;s solutions are heavily oriented towards this area.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SAP just purchased Pilot Software, which first came out with an executive information system (EIS) in 1986. I remember evaluating Pilot Lightship, a windows-based EIS solution, in 1992 or so. Then they had almost no discernable impact on mainstream BI for fifteen years, only to pop up recently as a &#8220;company to watch&#8221; according to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[146,160,204,817,911],"class_list":["post-11856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-balanced-scorecard","tag-bi","tag-business-intelligence","tag-pilot","tag-sap"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3X9RF-35e","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11856","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11856"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11856\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}