Abstract: Novel tools and techniques for providing decision support to enterprises. Certain of these tools analyze and/or display information, including, in a particular aspect, revenue and/or other financial information, in novel ways. These features can provide users with enhanced insight into the performance of various product lines and/or into opportunities to enhance such performance, including (but not limited to) insight into the performance of two or more product lines in conjunction with one another. In another aspect, certain tools provide heretofore unavailable facilities for evaluating the success of an acquisition, for example, by providing insight into the market compatibility of an acquired product line with an existing product line.

Abstract: Novel tools and techniques for providing decision support to enterprises. Certain of these tools analyze and/or display information, including, in a particular aspect, revenue and/or other financial information, in novel ways. These features can provide users with enhanced insight into the performance of various product lines and/or into opportunities to enhance such performance, including (but not limited to) insight into the performance of two or more product lines in conjunction with one another. In another aspect, certain tools provide heretofore unavailable facilities for evaluating the success of an acquisition, for example, by providing insight into the market compatibility of an acquired product line with an existing product line.

Abstract: Novel tools and techniques for generating map displays to graphically illustrate financial performance. In one aspect, a map display might employ a coloration scheme that distinguishes among various ranked regions to illustrate, for example, revenue performance (which can be measured by any of a number of metrics), to allow a user to quickly understand the relative performance of a product line across a number of regions. In another aspect, a map display might correlate a first set of revenue information (or other financial information) with other data sets, such as sales force data, competitive sales data, and/or the like, to allow a user to quickly identify correlative patterns in the two data sets. Such map displays might feature two maps side-by-side, or might superimpose a map of one data set over a map of another data set, to assist in the user's visual analysis.