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What is a flat data file? by Daniel J. Power Editor, DSSResources.com Data is stored in a number of formats. In the early years of computing, data was stored and retrieve...	DSS Foundations	Jul 10, 2017
What is the theory of relational databases? by Dan Power Editor, DSSResources.com Relational databases organize data elements in clusters that are meaningful to users and useful for perform...	DSS Foundations	Apr 11, 2010
What is a data flow diagram? by Daniel J. Power Editor, DSSResources.com A data flow diagram (DFD) is a graphical representation of the flow of data from external actors, age...	DSS Foundations	Aug 03, 2017
What is the best approach for organizing data? by Daniel J. Power Editor, DSSResources.COM In an information technology context, organizing means to arrange data in a coherent form and to syst...	DSS Foundations	Jul 25, 2013
Is ETL software needed to build a model-driven DSS? by Daniel J. Power Editor, DSSResources.COM ETL refers to software used in the process of extracting data from a data source, transforming or alt...	Model-driven DSS	Apr 15, 2017
What is a data modeler? by Daniel J. Power Editor, DSSResources.COM In the era of rapidly expanding, diverse data, someone needs to identify patterns and regularities in...	DSS Foundations	Sep 21, 2015
What happened at DSSResources 2007-2010? by Dan Power Editor, DSSResources.com The DSS Research Resources home page started during late summer 1995 as a way of organizing the vast amount...	DSS Foundations	Jan 03, 2011
What Wikipedia resources are useful for a database management course? by Daniel J. Power Editor, DSSResources.COM Managing data is a fundamental need in organizations. More complex data, parallel processing and inex...	DSS Foundations	Aug 13, 2013
What is a data lake? by Daniel J. Power Editor, DSSResources.COM Data lake is a metaphor for a data storage structure. In the physical world, a lake is a basin filled...	DSS Foundations	Aug 10, 2018
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 is big data analytics? by Daniel J. Power Editor, DSSResources.COM Big data analytics combines buzz words and is a buzz phrase. The basic idea of this new business jarg...	DSS Foundations	Jul 15, 2018
What is a database? by Dan Power Editor, DSSResources.com Database is a fundamental concept for information technology professionals. While some lay people have an ...	DSS Foundations	Jul 09, 2017
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
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 solution-focused agile? Daniel J. Power Editor, DSSResources.com Managers, project teams, and consultants should focus primarily on the present and future. We examine the...	DSS Foundations	Aug 02, 2019
What is involved in providing decision support for global enterprises? by Dan Power The theme for the upcoming 9th International Conference for AIS SIG DSS: the International Society for Decision Support Systems (IC...	DSS Theory	Aug 01, 2006
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
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
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 common barriers and challenges to becoming agile? Daniel J. Power and Ciara Heavin Any major change is always somewhat challenging and becoming agile and doing agile is a major change. Transitioni...	DSS Foundations	Mar 01, 2020
What Data Warehouse software and configurations are used in universities? The best source for finding information on this topic is on the Higher Education Data Warehouse Configurations page at http://www.georgetown.edu/users...	Data-driven DSS	Aug 06, 2005
What is a spreadsheet-based DSS? by Dan Power Editor, DSSResources.com Most managers are familiar with spreadsheet packages like Microsoft Excel. If a decision support system (D...	Model-driven DSS	Jan 30, 2017
What are post-relational databases? by Daniel Power Editor, DSSResources.com Post-relational or non-relational databases implement a conceptual schema using a non-relational data mo...	DSS Foundations	Aug 20, 2016
What are physical database design tradeoffs for decision support data? by Dan Power Editor, DSSResources.com Implementing a decision support database involves tradeoffs. A designer needs to transform an ideal, logi...	DSS Foundations	Oct 01, 2008
How can data scientists cope with organization politics? by Daniel Power Editor, DSSResources.COM Business analytics, data analytics and decision support often create political concerns for organization...	DSS Foundations	Jul 21, 2019
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
How does MDM impact data-driven DSS? by Dan Power Editor, DSSResources.com Master data management (MDM) is a complex process made up of a number of interrelated tasks. In general, MD...	DSS Foundations	Aug 05, 2010
How do collaboration tools support agile teams? Daniel J. Power Editor, DSSResources.com Agile philosophy emphasizes collaboration and communication among team members and with clients and other...	DSS Foundations	Sep 30, 2019
What is a document database? by Dan Power Editor, DSSResources.com Increasingly unstructured or semi-structured documents are the drivers of new, novel decision support syst...	DSS Foundations	Nov 26, 2011
Can smartphone apps increase collaboration? by Daniel J. Power Editor, DSSResources.COM Smartphones have enabled a mobile world and these devices have initiated a series of significant chang...	DSS Foundations	Oct 18, 2015
What are sources of data for building a data-driven DSS? by Dan Power Editor, DSSResources.com Managers and IT staff who are thinking about opportunities for building innovative, data-driven decision su...	DSS Foundations	Jun 20, 2014
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
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 is Hadoop? by Dan Power Editor, DSSResources.com Data-driven DSS may need to access and process very large data sets to support decision-making. One way to...	DSS Foundations	May 26, 2013
What are key agile concepts? Daniel J. Power Editor, DSSResources.com Learning and understanding agile concepts is a starting point to becoming agile and collaborative as a pr...	DSS Foundations	Jun 20, 2019
What are the features of a communications-driven DSS? by Daniel J. Power Editor, DSSResources.COM Questions about the features and characteristics of the five types of DSS (Power, 2002) are common i...	Communications-driven DSS	Mar 02, 2007
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
How does the use of a Communications-Driven DSS impact a decision-making meeting? by Dan Power Communications and computing technologies have made it possible to have distributed decision-making meetings. Initially such meeting...	Communications-driven DSS	Aug 02, 2006
How does an agile person cope with adversity? by Daniel J. Power and Ciara Heavin People, teams, and organizations frequently encounter adverse or unfavorable circumstances, calamity, difficul...	DSS Foundations	Nov 27, 2019
What technologies are used for managing big data? by Daniel J. Power Editor, DSSResources.COM Data-driven DSS and predictive analytics frequently need to access and process very large data sets ...	DSS Foundations	Nov 10, 2016
What criteria should be used to evaluate BI/DW vendor solutions? by Dan Power Editor, DSSResources.com Selecting an enterprise business intelligence (BI)/data warehouse (DW) vendor solution is an important deci...	DSS Foundations	Dec 26, 2013
What are key skills of data-based decision makers? by Ciara Heavin and Daniel J. Power Decision making habits are often learned by trial and error. Decision making skills should be learned through...	DSS Foundations	Mar 18, 2018
Why is agile important? Daniel J. Power and Ciara Heavin Agile hype continues to grow and some see agile as a solution to every problem (cf., Ambroziewicz, 2017; Mandir, ...	DSS Foundations	Jun 22, 2020
What skills do data-driven decision makers need? by Daniel J. Power Editor, DSSResources.COM Decision making habits are often learned by trial and error. Decision making skills are learned throu...	DSS Foundations	Dec 22, 2014
What is the history of Clinical DSS? by Daniel J. Power Editor, DSSResources.COM Clinical Decision Support Systems (CDSSs) are positively disrupting healthcare and the practice of med...	DSS Foundations	Jul 19, 2019
Is the traditional Sprague DSS still relevant? by Daniel J. Power Editor, DSSResources.COM In 1980, Ralph Sprague, a long-time Professor at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, wrote ...	DSS Foundations	Dec 13, 2017
What are the advantages and disadvantages of using Second Life for decision support? by Dan Power Editor, DSSResources.com Multi-user visual simulations are at the leading and bleeding edge for computerized decision support. The maj...	Model-driven DSS	Aug 19, 2007
How can managers and technology staff secure decision support data and decision support systems? by Dan Power Editor, DSSResources.com Using computers to support business decision making is mission critical in many companies, but security f...	Building DSS	Nov 15, 2007
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

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