Decision
Support Systems – DSS (definition)
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The best decision support systems
provide high-level summaries and drilldowns to details.
Decision
Support Systems (DSS) are a specific class of computerized information system
that supports business and organizational decision-making activities. A
properly designed DSS is an interactive software-based system intended to help
decision makers compile useful information from raw data, documents, personal
knowledge, and/or business models to identify and solve problems and make
decisions.
Typical
information that a decision support application might gather and present would
be:
·
Accessing all of your current
information assets, including legacy and relational data sources, cubes, data
warehouses, and data marts
·
Comparative sales figures between
one week and the next
·
Projected revenue figures based on
new product sales assumptions
·
The consequences of different
decision alternatives, given past experience in a context that is described
Information
Builders' WebFOCUS reporting software is ideally suited for building decision support systems due
to its wide reach of data, interactive facilities, ad hoc reporting
capabilities, quick development times, and simple Web-based deployment.
Information Builders and iWay Software Professional
Services
specialize in building custom-tailored Web decision support systems. We offer service packages designed for quick implementations, and we
use the latest technologies to incorporate leading-edge capabilities into our
solutions – including a wide range of wireless and mobile options.
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