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ALSO CALLED: DSS (Decision Support Systems) and Decision Support
DEFINITION: A decision support system (DSS) is a computer program application that analyzes business data and presents it so that users can make business decisions more easily. It is an "informational application" (to distinguish it from an "operational application" that collects the data in the course of normal business operation).Typical information that a decision support application might gather and present  … 
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Understanding the Components of Business Confidence
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: With over 60% of CEOs saying they need to do a better job of capturing and understanding information to make more effective and timely business decisions, it's clear that there's a gap between capability and need. It's similarly fair to say that this shortfall is a leading reason why businesses aren’t as competitive as they’d like to be.
Posted: 08 Oct 2009 | Published: 08 Oct 2009


Business Analytics and Optimization for the Intelligent Enterprise
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: Executives recognize that new analytics capabilities, coupled with advanced business process management, signal a major opportunity to create business advantage. Those who have the vision to apply new approaches are building intelligent enterprises positioned to thrive.
Posted: 07 Oct 2009 | Published: 07 Oct 2009


IBM Cognos 8 Business Intelligence for Professional Users
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: Professional report authors need a single reporting solution that draws data from a variety of sources and enables wide collaboration yet delivers the resulting information at business speed. IBM Cognos® 8 Business Intelligence includes Web-based reporting tools that support collaboration and good decision making.
Posted: 05 Oct 2009 | Published: 05 Oct 2009


Choosing a Standard for BI and Reporting: Simplify the IT Environment Reduce Your TCO Increase Your ROI
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: The reasons driving standardization in BI and reporting are core to every company—cutting costs, boosting revenue, and increasing profits. IBM Cognos 8 BI lets business users move among capabilities in a guided way, get the answers they seek, and collaborate while giving IT complete control over the BI environment.
Posted: 05 Oct 2009 | Published: 05 Oct 2009


Six Mistakes Companies are Making Today and How You Can Avoid Them
sponsored by SAP America Inc
WHITE PAPER: This paper highlights common mistakes companies make in a down economy and discusses how organizations can use business intelligence to avoid them. Use the self-assessment questionnaire at the end of this paper to determine the level of business intelligence opportunity across your organization.
Posted: 28 Sep 2009 | Published: 28 Sep 2009


Making Strategy Real
sponsored by SAP America Inc
WHITE PAPER: How can management communicate business strategy effectively and assure that the entire organization has bought in to the strategy and is aligned behind it? Business performance optimization systems are an important tool for success.
Posted: 25 Sep 2009 | Published: 25 Sep 2009


BI for Business Users: How IT Can Make Business Intelligence Easy for Everyone
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: Today, the latest BI solutions put the power of advanced business intelligence into the hands of more people throughout the organization - improving the speed and accuracy of decision-making from top to bottom. Knowing your business, market, customers, and competition is critical for any organization. Read this for more...
Posted: 20 Jul 2009 | Published: 20 Jul 2009


In Search of Clarity: Unravelling the Complexities of Executive Decision-Making
sponsored by SAP America Inc
WHITE PAPER: Decision-making by companies has enormous room to improve both in terms of efficiency and quality; it will have to for companies to keep pace in an increasingly competitive global business environment.
Posted: 08 Jul 2009 | Published: 08 Jul 2009


Data Base 101a - Thinking Just a Little Differently
sponsored by ParAccel
WHITE PAPER: A columnar data base is a data base arranged to optimize data analysis, but how? What is a columnar database really? This document presents the basic concepts of columnar databases in a straightforward manner so anyone who is involved with data, business or technical, can understand their purpose and application.
Posted: 26 Jun 2009 | Published: 26 Jun 2009


Leveraging Integration to Weather the Economic Storm
sponsored by Information Builders
WHITE PAPER: This white paper highlights four primary ways to use integration to make your business better during a down economy. You'll discover how, with the right integration plan and supporting software in place, your company can increase efficiency, minimize expenses, and streamline and accelerate core processes.
Posted: 22 Jun 2009 | Published: 22 Jun 2009


Business Intelligence Standardization
sponsored by SAP BusinessObjects
WHITE PAPER: This paper gives an overview of the advantages of implementing business intelligence (BI) standards. Learn how successful organizations have standardized on, and benefited from BI solutions from SAP - and why you should join them.
Posted: 19 Jun 2009 | Published: 19 Jun 2009


Expanding BI's role by including Predictive Analytics
sponsored by SAP BusinessObjects
WHITE PAPER: In today's economic downturn, organizations are looking for ways to improve the way they do business, to keep ahead of the competition, and to grow revenue. With reduced funding for new initiatives, it can be difficult to meet these objectives. Read on to learn how expanding your business intelligence with predictive analysis can help.
Posted: 19 Jun 2009 | Published: 19 Jun 2009


Business Intelligence - Now More Than Ever
sponsored by SAP BusinessObjects
WHITE PAPER: The goal of this white paper is to explain why business intelligence is a sound investment for any IT manager to make, especially now. Budgets are tighter and demands from executives to see immediate results from IT implementations are increasing. This paper outlines the benefits of a BI solution and its impact on a company. Read on to learn more.
Posted: 19 Jun 2009 | Published: 19 Jun 2009


Making Business Relevant Information Instantly Available to More Users
sponsored by SAP BusinessObjects
WHITE PAPER: Executives, managers, and business users need the ability to quickly discover, collect, analyze, and share relevant information and they need to be able to answer their own questions as they have them. Read this quick report to learn more about a solution that addresses just these needs.
Posted: 19 Jun 2009 | Published: 19 Jun 2009


The 11 Secrets of Business Rules Success
sponsored by FICO
WHITE PAPER: Download this paper and learn how Blaze Advisor makes it easy to bring the power of predictive analytics to bear on decisions, integrating judgmental and regulatory business rules with analytically derived models for more precise, more effective decision making. Download and learn the secrets of developing decision management applications.
Posted: 16 Jun 2009 | Published: 16 Jun 2009


Decide to Survive: Four Imperatives that make Decision Management Essential in Today's Uncertain Environment
sponsored by FICO
WHITE PAPER: Download this paper and learn about a decision making solution that will help you survive in this difficult economy by managing decisions with greater precision, agility, speed and consistency while driving down costs.
Posted: 15 Jun 2009 | Published: 15 Jun 2009


Smarter system development: a systems engineering trade study to support green initiatives with model-driven development
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: Trade study analysis is an effective method of comparing potential solutions to a given problem. Using a model-driven approach allows you to perform trade studies before development or implementation begins and saves time, money, and development headaches. Read on to learn more.
Posted: 14 May 2009 | Published: 14 May 2009

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DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS DEFINITION (continued): … A decision support system (DSS) is a computer program application that analyzes business data and presents it so that users can make business decisions more easily. It is an "informational application" (to distinguish it from an "operational application" that collects the data in the course of normal business operation).Typical information that a decision support application might gather and present would be: Comparative sales figures between one week and the nextProjected revenue figures based on new product sales assumptions The consequences of different decision alternatives, given past experience in a context that is describedA decision support system may present information graphically and may include an expert system or artificial intelligence (AI). It may be aimed at business executives or some other group of knowledge workers.
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