newsbytes@clarinet.com (02/04/90)
ATLANTA, GEORGIA, U.S.A., 1990 FEB 1 (NB) -- Management Science America, which is being acquired by Dun & Bradstreet, announced it is shipping its Smartview-General Ledger, the first component in its new executive information utilities for IBM mainframes. The program works with MSA's mainframe-based general ledger product to pull information onto a senior manager's desk for quick action. "This is cooperative processing," explained an MSA spokesman. "We have a lot of our front end work now being done on PCs." Smartview was announced in January, 1989, and works with MSA's General Ledger program on IBM mainframes. "It's very graphically oriented, and allows the senior manager to design his own screen and get the information he needs from the general ledger, then drill down through to what he needs quickly," the spokesman continued. "So at a cursory glance, bottom line numbers might come in yellow if they're fair, green if they're good and red if they're bad." This lets top executives "manage by exception," the spokesman added. Rather than spending all their time trying to figure out how their companies are doing, they can zero in quickly on problems. SmartView works under DOS 3.1 PC/AT or any IBM PS/2 Model 50 or higher with 2 megabytes of memory and a 20 megabyte hard disk. (Dana Blankenhorn/19900202/Press Contact: David Colmans, MSA, 404-239-3355)