Not too sure what to think of this:
ECi M1 ERP
I get it. Users want one stop shopping for everything, and the marriage of ERP to BI is pretty much a given these days (SAP, Oracle anyone?) ECi seems to be a player in the medium sized manufacturing markets so they would have a keen insight into what their customers need and what they need to measure so it may work. However, this is on their website as an example of the GUI
As you will find out over time, I cannot stand Pie Charts, and this is a prime example of why. What exactly doe the chart on the bottom right tell me other than yellow is slightly bigger than the rest of the slices, beyond that, nothing.
I like bar charts and this one is pretty good, but I am thinking that they could have saved some real estate by not having the actual data displayed below it. They are also very smart in that they have a similar layout to Windows Outlook, which would make the product more likely to be picked up by most users (familiarity is you friend when it come to application design)
Again, I generally do NOT like my BI to be tied to a specific system, but in this case, with the very specific vertical that ECi is targeting, I am ok with it. Just kill the pies please?
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