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What is the relationship between DSS and BAM? by Dan Power Editor, DSSResources.com Business Activity Monitoring (BAM) is the "real-time" evolution or descendant of the Executive Information...	Building DSS	Jul 09, 2016
What is machine data? by Dan Power Editor, DSSResources.com Machine data can be used to provide decision support for relevant decision tasks in organizations. Machine ...	Data-driven DSS	Feb 27, 2013
What is proactive problem solving? by Daniel J. Power Editor, DSSResources.COM Proactive problem solving is about identifying problems early to avoid them or minimize and resolve th...	DSS Foundations	Jul 09, 2019
How are processes related to enterprise systems? by Daniel J. Power Editor, DSSResources.COM Enterprise systems support business processes. Implementing new enterprise systems may require extens...	DSS Foundations	May 07, 2019
What is surveillance analytics? Ciara Heavin and Daniel J. Power Monitoring and tracking of what is occurring is not a new phenomenon. People and various activities have been obs...	DSS Foundations	Dec 05, 2020
What is operational business intelligence? by Dan Power Editor, DSSResources.com For 50 years, managers have wanted information systems to provide facts to guide operational business deci...	Data-driven DSS	Sep 03, 2008
What are some use cases with expanded data sources? by Daniel J. Power Editor, DSSResources.COM Data volume is expanding rapidly, data variety is increasing and is coming from new sources, and data...	DSS Foundations	Dec 21, 2014
What is a system? by Dan Power Editor, DSSResources.com System is used as part of many technology-related concepts including decision support system (DSS) and tran...	DSS Foundations	Nov 06, 2009
What is a "performance" dashboard? A few days ago, I received a very nice promotional brochure from iViz Group (ivizgroup.com) about their "innovative Dashboard and Scorecard software...	Data-driven DSS	Feb 05, 2006
What is predictive asset management? by Daniel J. Power Editor, DSSResources.COM Cognizant, Deloitte, IBM, SAS and other vendors and consulting firms are promoting use of predictive ...	DSS Foundations	Jun 27, 2018
What is reporting software? by Dan Power Editor, DSSResources.com Reports organize data to create information that can be shared with others. For example, a quarterly financi...	DSS Foundations	Jan 09, 2016
Can DSS enhance sustainability efforts? by Dan Power Editor, DSSResources.com Sustainability is the capacity to endure. Computerized decision support can potentially help managers and i...	DSS Foundations	Jul 30, 2012
What does it mean to keep a person in the decision loop? by Daniel J. Power In this Age of Automation, machines with appropriate software can make well-understood decisions without involving a person. We ...	DSS Foundations	Aug 29, 2020
What are challenges for predictive analytics? Daniel J. Power Editor, DSSResources.COM Prediction is a difficult task and a challenge in many situations. The assumption of current prediction t...	DSS Foundations	Apr 07, 2019
What is operations analysis? by Daniel J. Power Editor, DSSResources.COM Organizations develop systems and processes to perform tasks. The performance of these operations de...	DSS Foundations	Feb 19, 2015
Can decision support developers reduce the probability of solving the ‘wrong’ problem? by Daniel J. Power Editor, DSSResources.COM Data analytics and decision support systems are intended to help people, especially managers, make be...	DSS Foundations	Jun 25, 2017
Is a Data Warehouse a DSS? What is a star schema? No, a data warehouse is not a Decision Support System. A data warehouse is however usually the "driver" and dominant component for a Data-dr...	Data-driven DSS	Aug 06, 2005
Where can I find information about KPIs for building DSS in different industries? The topic of identifying KPIs or Key Performance Indicators is a major issue in developing Executive Information Systems, Balanced Scorecard Systems a...	Data-driven DSS	Aug 06, 2005
What is the difference between formative and summative DSS evaluation? by Dan Power Editor, DSSResources.com More evaluation is needed for decision support, analytics and business intelligence projects. Developers ...	Evaluating DSS Projects	Jan 27, 2016
Is data modeling needed for DSS built using no schema big data? by Daniel J. Power Editor, DSSResources.COM Agile development of analytics and data-driven decision support is not new. Decision support built us...	DSS Foundations	Oct 15, 2018
What is the ROMC design approach? by Daniel J. Power Editor, DSSResources.com ROMC is an analysis and design method for user interfaces. Ralph Sprague and Eric Carlson (1982) propo...	DSS Foundations	Dec 31, 2020
Can wearable computing devices provide decision support? by Daniel J. Power Editor, DSSResources.COM Computing devices continue to become smaller and more portable. A wearable computing device can now a...	DSS Foundations	Jun 11, 2017
What is machine learning? by Daniel J. Power Editor, DSSResources.COM "A computing machine learns to make and improve its predictions by performing calculations from data a...	DSS Foundations	Apr 01, 2017
What is Alter's DSS taxonomy? by Daniel J. Power Editor, DSSResources.com In the mid-1970s, the first wave of computerized decision support systems (DSS) became practical. St...	DSS Foundations	Jun 18, 2018
Can computerized decision support encourage health literacy? by Daniel J. Power Editor, DSSResources.COM People make poor health choices for many reasons (Carrera, 2014). One reason is a lack of informati...	DSS Foundations	May 29, 2016
What is Technology Leapfrogging? Ciara Heavin and Daniel J. Power The Winter 2020 global coronavirus outbreak created a significant impetus to adopt new technologies to support an...	DSS Foundations	May 09, 2020
What software can help implement the Basel accords? by Dan Power Editor, DSSResources.com Identifying and evaluating software for a very broad purpose like supporting the Basel capital accords (htt...	DSS Foundations	Sep 03, 2011
How does decision support processing differ from transaction processing? by Dan Power Editor, DSSResources.com Information systems can be categorized in many ways, but historically business information systems began a...	Building DSS	Jan 04, 2014
What is an appropriate DSS deployment strategy? by Dan Power Editor, DSSResources.com Decision support system (DSS) development often follows a sequence of awareness, plan, analysis, design, b...	Building DSS	Oct 14, 2008
What is adaptive planning? by Daniel J. Power Editor, DSSResources.COM Adaptive planning is a process and theory for coping with change and complexity. Adaptive planning ide...	DSS Foundations	Feb 15, 2020
How can managers cope with digital disruption? by Daniel J. Power and Ciara Heavin Nineteen fifty one (1951) marks the beginning of the first wave of economic and social digital disruption and tr...	DSS Foundations	Jun 25, 2018
Are strategic decision processes structured? by Dan Power Editor, DSSResources.com There are patterns, regularities and repetitive actions in decision processes that create observable struct...	DSS Foundations	Oct 11, 2009
What type of DSS is it? by Dan Power Editor, DSSResources.com Managers and developers are recognizing that products and systems advertized as business intelligence, de...	DSS Theory	Mar 21, 2009
How should decision support projects be managed? by Dan Power Editor, DSSResources.com Since the early 1950s, much has been written about project management. This literature prescribes generic ...	Building DSS	May 11, 2014
What factors influence corporate acquisition decision-making success? Daniel J. Power Editor, DSSResources.COM In 2017 in the United States, there were a record number of merger and acquisition transactions with 15,1...	DSS Foundations	May 01, 2019
What is the design concept for PlanningDSS.com? In the Ask Dan! in DSS News of May 22, 2005, I introduced PlanningDSS.com and indicated that in a future column I might explain the overall concept an...	Planning DSS	Aug 07, 2005
What questions are important for evaluating a BI proposal? by Dan Power Editor, DSSResources.com Introducing a major project to provide enterprise-wide business intelligence is much more than just another...	DSS Foundations	Jan 30, 2011
How can analytics and decision support improve cybersecurity? by Daniel J. Power Editor, DSSResources.COM Protecting digital data and information is crucial to organizational survival. Failing to anticipate ...	DSS Foundations	Jun 26, 2018
What are benefits of using decision support? by Daniel J. Power Editor, DSSResources.COM Organizational benefits of using computerized decision support include: Help Team Members Function ...	DSS Foundations	Dec 02, 2016
How can DSS impact steps in a general decision process model? by Dan Power Editor, DSSResources.com There are many types of computerized decision support systems that support a diverse set of tasks. Exper...	DSS Foundations	May 14, 2008
How can analytics and decision support reduce insurance fraud? by Daniel J. Power Editor, DSSResources.COM Preventing and detecting insurance fraud is a critical task at insurance companies. There is some evi...	DSS Foundations	Mar 02, 2014
What is the process for designing decision support software? by Dan Power Editor, DSSResources.COM Recently, I received an email from Michael Brito asking if I "could explain the process for designing deci...	Building DSS	Oct 22, 2006
How is data management linked to analytics and decision support? by Daniel Power Editor, DSSResources.com Data management or data resource management refers to activities and tasks associated with capturing, or...	DSS Foundations	Aug 30, 2016
How complex is managing? Daniel J. Power Editor, DSSResources.com Management roles are increasingly specialized, management tasks are often complex, and projects have expa...	DSS Foundations	Aug 28, 2019
Can decision support improve surveillance and increase privacy? by Daniel J. Power Editor, DSSResources.COM Some people assume that computerized decision support can help law enforcement use surveillance to de...	DSS Foundations	Sep 22, 2018
When is a decision framed properly? by Daniel J. Power Editor, DSSResources.COM and Ciara Heavin Managing Editor, Journal of Decision Systems Decisions occur in the context of...	DSS Foundations	Oct 02, 2016
What is the Amazon working backwards approach? Daniel J. Power Editor, DSSResources.com Jeff Bezos, Amazon CEO, has had great success since the Amazon e-tailing website launched on July 16, 199...	DSS Foundations	Aug 16, 2020
What should an Agile practitioner know and do? Daniel J. Power Editor, DSSResources.com Knowing agile principles and developing an agile mindset are the starting point of becoming agile. An agi...	DSS Foundations	Jul 01, 2019
What IS and what IS NOT essential to be agile? by Daniel J. Power Editor, DSSResources.COM We are bombarded by buzzwords, technical jargon, and colorful metaphors in the culture of agile proce...	DSS Foundations	Jul 17, 2019
What is DevOps and is it important to decision support? by Daniel J. Power Editor, DSSResources.COM DevOps is a made-up term for a software/systems development method, practice or technique that combi...	DSS Foundations	Nov 14, 2015

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