What was the DSS News in October 2000?
by Daniel Power
Volume 1, issue number 12 of DSS News was published October 9, 2000. Then as now DSS News was a bi-weekly publication of DSSResources.COM. We had more than 2100 unique visitors each week at DSSResources.COM and we had 330 subscribers to DSS News. In that newsletter I announced a new feature at DSSResources.com, a Researchers Directory. In October 2000, I could identify many of the researchers in academic decision support.
My column briefly discussed the question: What are the main types or categories of decision models used in DSS model base software? The question was submitted by Samuel Teong on October 06, 2000. My response:
"Recently, I posted Chapter 9 of my DSS Hyperbook that discusses
building Model-Driven DSS. As I wrote and rewrote the chapter, I had
to choose among various organizing frameworks. In the most recent
revision I tried to examine 10 Management Science problem
types: Cost-benefit analysis; Forecasting; Finance and investment;
Inventory control and stockout; Location, allocation, distribution
and transportation; Manpower planning and assignment; Project planning
and control; Queuing and congestion; Reliability and replacement policy;
and Sequencing and scheduling."
"I finally decided to discuss these 10 common decision support problem
types in terms of five general categories of models: accounting and
financial models, decision analysis models, forecasting models,
network and optimization models, and simulation models.
This structure helped organize my thinking. I deal with statistical,
and artificial intelligence models in my chapter on Knowledge-Driven
DSS and mining data ...."
"I would especially appreciate any comments on Chapter 9. Please send
me your comments or post them to the DSSResources.COM Bulletin Board."
Power, D. J., Decision Support Systems: Concepts and Resources for Managers, 2002, Free PDF.
There were a number of interesting DSS News Stories from Sept. 22 to Oct. 06, 2000.
10/06/2000 'Transforming Information into Opportunity' is theme of
ShowCase's User Conference, COMPASS 2000, Oct. 8-11, 2000, Orlando, Fla.
10/05/2000 Enron plans to provide computers, broadband access to
employees for use at home.
10/05/2000 MathSoft Data Analysis Division introduced S-PLUSŪ 6 for
UNIX/Linux. Major upgrade includes Java-based Graphical User Interface
and connectivity.
10/04/2000 NCR funded study predicts total market for terabyte-sized
data warehouse systems should reach 3,200 by 2002.
10/03/2000 CACI forms strategic alliance with Maximal to offer Data
Visualization and Analysis Tool.
10/02/2000 LeapSource unveils CxO Desktop Interface. Executives can
monitor key business indicators, receive financial updates via laptop or
Palm VII.
09/29/2000 MicroStrategy launched online store. Try MicroStrategy 7 with
full featured hands-on demo.
09/28/2000 LeaseLoan is speeding up the contract financing process using
Web-based automated credit evaluation.
09/27/2000 Hyperion Performance Scorecard now features full
Web-deployment and access to Hackett Benchmarking & Research database.
09/27/2000 NCR's Teradata database now supports Extensible Markup
Language (XML), the Common Warehouse Model (CWM), and the Open
Information Model (OIM).
09/26/2000 IBM's LotusDevelopment announced the public beta availability
of LotusSametime 2.0, its real-time collaboration
platform.
09/25/2000 Sagent Technology announced the Sagent Portal, a second
generation information portal that integrates a broad range of content
and applications.
09/25/2000 Competing Data Warehousing standards merge. Meta Data
Coalition will merge with Object Management Group.
09/25/2000 Net Perceptions introduced E-commerce analyst software.
Reference http://dssresources.com/newsletters/12.php
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