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How many DSS related pages are on the Web in Fall 2020? by Daniel Power For many years, I have been tracking search engine results for the phrases "decision support systems", "decision support", and "DSS...	DSS Foundations	Oct 24, 2020
How can we provide Web access to a Data Warehouse and DSS database? Some database software directly supports Web access, with other database management systems (DBMSs) you will need to use an intermediary application p...	Data-driven DSS	Aug 06, 2005
How many DSS related pages are on the Web? One means of finding Web sites relevant to DSS is to use a search engine. Another way is to use a Web index. AltaVista (URL http://www.altavista...	DSSResources.com	Aug 25, 2005
What happened at DSSResources.COM in 2004? I have been involved with Web publishing for almost 10 years and the possibilities and prospects remain exciting and limitless. This review is a look ...	DSSResources.com	Aug 16, 2005
What is a RESTful decision support application? by Daniel J. Power Editor, DSSResources.COM A specific decision support vision and a well-defined architecture for a new application provides a d...	DSS Foundations	Jan 19, 2014
How important is trust to the use of decision support technologies? by Daniel J. Power Editor, DSSResources.COM Decision support acceptance means that potential users trust the system and its analysis. Trust is e...	DSS Foundations	May 26, 2015
What is mobile business analytics and intelligence? by Daniel J. Power and Ciara Heavin Decision support "on-the-go" is expanding in terms of capabilities. Off premise BI, Mobile BI or Mobile Intell...	DSS Foundations	Jan 21, 2017
What is the history of DSSResources.com? by Daniel J. Power Editor, DSSResources.com Since October 2, 1995, DSSResources.com has been the premier resource about computerized Decision Supp...	DSSResources.com	Jan 09, 2016
What happened at DSSResources.COM in 2001? "It's NOT easy to make money with your computer at home!" I got this message in an email shortly after receiving a question about "how ...	DSSResources.com	Sep 13, 2005
How do decision situations differ? Daniel J. Power Editor, DSSResources.com Decision situations differ in terms of structure, complexity, uncertainty, and importance to name a few s...	DSS Foundations	Aug 21, 2020
Is the semantic web vision relevant to DSS? by Dan Power Editor, DSSResources.com Semantic web describes a vision and design guidelines and tools to let software applications read and un...	Building DSS	Feb 20, 2008
What are examples of decision support paradoxes? by Dan Power Editor, DSSResources.com Computerized decision support remains controversial. One goal of decision support is to improve decision m...	DSS Foundations	Sep 18, 2016
What universities offer masters degrees in analytics and data science? by Daniel J. Power Editor, DSSResources.COM Faculty entrepreneurs continue to respond to new business needs and trends in decision support tech...	DSS Foundations	May 31, 2018
What is a modern decision support system? by Daniel J. Power Editor, DSSResources.com "Modern" refers to recent times and recent innovations. Modern decision support is evolving rapidly ...	DSS Foundations	Mar 19, 2017
What is real-time decision support? The question of "real-time" decision support has been addressed in articles and books for almost 30 years, but as computing, sensor, and net...	Building DSS	Aug 06, 2005
Do consumers need decision support capabilities? by Dan Power Editor, DSSResources.com Purchase decisions have become increasingly complex with the advent of Internet shopping. Making decisions...	DSS Foundations	Feb 27, 2013
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
What are the origins of SIG DSS? by Dan Power Editor, DSSResources.com SIG DSS is the Special Interest Group about Decision Support and Analytical Information Systems affiliated ...	AIS SIG DSS	Feb 13, 2014
What are examples of clinical decision aids? by Daniel J. Power Editor, DSSResources.COM A decision aid is a tool that assists a person in making a specific decision. For example, a highway ...	DSS Foundations	Jul 11, 2019
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 are characteristics of a decision support system? by Dan Power Editor, DSSResources.com How do you know a computerized system is a decision support system (DSS)? This question is important becaus...	DSS Theory	Oct 05, 2005
Who uses computerized decision support? by Dan Power Editor, DSSResources.com Many people use computerized decision support for work and in recent years to aid in personal decision maki...	Building DSS	Sep 02, 2012
What technologies are central to digital transformation of healthcare? by Ciara Heavin and Daniel J. Power A diverse array of technologies enable and support digital transformation of healthcare. Fitting technologi...	DSS Foundations	Mar 18, 2019
What is the distilled "wisdom" about decision support? by Daniel J. Power Editor, DSSResources.COM Wisdom is a virtue. Decision support has a short history, but we have learned much about helping peop...	DSS Foundations	Apr 26, 2014
Is decision support research still needed? Daniel J. Power Editor, DSSResources.com Digital transformation is occurring globally and data-driven decision support, machine learning, and Arti...	DSS Foundations	Nov 25, 2019
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
What are "best practice" guidelines for decision process flowcharts? by Dan Power Editor, DSSResources.com As part of decision oriented diagnosis and design (Power, 2007), DSS analysts need to develop decision pr...	Building DSS	Sep 07, 2007
What are benefits of decision support applications in the cloud? by Dan Power Editor, DSSResources.COM Cloud computing is a distributed computing model that uses a network to share resources. The resources a...	DSS Foundations	Jul 08, 2012
How can data-based decision support facilitate digital transformation of Healthcare? by Daniel J. Power and Ciara Heavin Disentangling the Gordian Knot associated with Digital Transformation of Healthcare remains challenging and s...	DSS Foundations	Mar 18, 2019
What are the rules for building a successful model-driven DSS? by Dan Power Editor, DSSResources.COM It is important to discuss what impacts the success of computerized Decision Support Systems. My DSS bo...	Model-driven DSS	Oct 22, 2006
What are best practices for BI reports? by Dan Power Editor, DSSResources.com Structured, periodic reports remain at the center of data-driven decision support for managerial decision...	Building DSS	Nov 15, 2007
What is digital data? by Daniel J. Power Editor, DSSResources.COM Blog posts, tweets and high definition movies are all digitized. We live in a digital universe of bit...	DSS Foundations	Jan 04, 2020
Where can I find or download a DSS demo? Requests for information about DSS demonstration software is a frequent email question. The answer changes however depending upon what vendors are cur...	DSS Applications	Aug 07, 2005
What are design elements in a DSS user interface? by Dan Power Editor, DSSResources.com A design element is a discreet, identifiable component that appears in the user interface of computerized...	Building DSS	Feb 13, 2019
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
Does an “information culture” encourage adopting and using decision support technologies? by Daniel J. Power Editor, DSSResources.COM Supposedly, the phenomenon of an “information culture” influences why some organizations adopt in...	DSS Theory	Nov 12, 2017
Is an insight-driven organization myth or reality? Daniel J. Power Editor, DSSResources.com An insight-driven organization seems more like marketing hype, building on a catchy name, than reality. O...	DSS Foundations	Aug 18, 2019
What is the information technology productivity paradox? by Daniel J. Power Editor, DSSResources.COM Starry-eyed salespeople proclaimed that information technology would revolutionize organizations, cre...	DSS Foundations	Dec 24, 2018
Are computerized decision aids decision support systems? by Daniel J. Power Editor, DSSResources.COM Some are, some aren't. The phrase computerized decision aid refers to a diverse set of computer-based...	DSS Theory	May 14, 2016
What determines team performance on a project? Daniel J. Power Editor, DSSResources.com Some project teams perform better than others? Why? A project team is a group of people assigned to work ...	DSS Foundations	Jul 02, 2020
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 conversational, general-purpose decision support? by Daniel J. Power Editor, DSSResources.COM The phrase conversational, general-purpose decision support refers to a knowledge-driven software app...	DSS Foundations	Feb 24, 2019
What software tools should be used to build Web-based DSS? by Dan Power Editor, DSSResources.com Many Information Systems people, including students and managers, want to do more that try a Web-based DSS...	Building DSS	Mar 18, 2009
What is a man-computer symbiosis? by Daniel J. Power Editor, DSSResources.COM In 1960, J. C. R Licklider coined the phrase "man-computer symbiosis". He speculated that "man-compute...	DSS Foundations	Jul 18, 2018
What are the features of a data-driven DSS? by Daniel J. Power Editor, DSSResources.COM Data-driven DSS are the most common of the five types of decision support systems in the expanded DSS...	Data-driven DSS	Mar 02, 2007
How might AI, Blockchain and Decision Support impact Accounting and Auditing? by Daniel J. Power Editor, DSSResources.COM Historically, bookkeepers, accountants, and auditors have maintained financial records and created de...	DSS Foundations	Oct 14, 2018
How will Web 2.0 impact design and development of decision support systems? by Dan Power Editor, DSSResources.com Web 2.0 applications facilitate information sharing, user-centered design, and collaboration. In the past 5...	DSS Foundations	Jan 03, 2011
When is "real-time" decision support desirable and needed? My Ask Dan! column “What is ‘real-time’ decision support in DSS News (Vol. 3, No. 24) struck a chord with some readers. This column is a follow-...	Building DSS	Aug 06, 2005
What is high-velocity decision making? by Daniel J. Power Editor, DSSResources.com Strategic, consequential decisions can and often should be made using a high-velocity, high-quality d...	DSS Foundations	Sep 06, 2017
What are the most cited DSS articles and books? Decision Support Research: Most Cited Articles and Books by Daniel J. Power Editor, DSSResources.COM Research and scholarship about Decision ...	DSS Foundations	Aug 24, 2018

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