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What is the evolution of decision support and analytics architectures? by Daniel J. Power Editor, DSSResources.COM During the past 70 years as new computing technologies have been developed, the computing architectur...	DSS Foundations	Dec 05, 2018
What is User Experience (UX) design for building DSS? by Ciara Heavin Managing Editor, Journal of Decision Systems and Daniel J. Power Editor, DSSResources.COM People must interact with a compu...	DSS Foundations	Nov 15, 2018
What is advanced or next generation Decision Support? The "bleeding edge" of technology development and DSS is often a costly swamp. Yet it can be very profitable to gain a "first mover&quo...	Evaluating DSS Projects	Aug 07, 2005
What is next generation BI? by Dan Power Editor, DSSResources.com Most of us recognize that we need better software and systems to get better business intelligence. We also...	DSS Foundations	Jan 14, 2011
What is DSS 2.0? by Daniel J. Power Editor, DSSResources.COM Discontinuities and major technology change can result in improving and significantly altering the sc...	DSS Foundations	Jul 19, 2014
How has mobile computing technology evolved for decision support? Daniel J. Power Editor, DSSResources.com Information technology innovation occurs in a complex environment of evolving complementary capabilities....	Communications-driven DSS	Oct 24, 2012
What are the achievements, trends and challenges for Decision Support Systems? In late October 2001, Manuel Mora, an Associate Professor in the Department of Information Systems, Universidad Autonoma de Aguascalientes (www.uaa.mx...	Evaluating DSS Projects	Aug 07, 2005
Can chatbot technology improve decision support? by Daniel J. Power Editor, DSSResources.COM Chatting using text or computer-generated voice and natural language understanding with an intelligen...	DSS Foundations	Jun 30, 2019
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
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
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 the components of a decision support system? by Dan Power Editor, DSSResources.com Traditionally, academics and practitioners have discussed building a decision support system (DSS) in terms...	DSS Theory	Aug 26, 2005
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 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 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 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 DSSResourc...	DSS Foundations	Oct 11, 2020
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 some examples of web-based DSS? Most people who read about decision support systems want to try one. This is understandable given the promise associated with an information system th...	DSS Applications	Aug 07, 2005
What is the history of computerized decision support? by Dan Power Editor, DSSResources.com Supposedly, if we study history we are less likely to make the same mistakes again. Decision support was on...	DSS Foundations	Jun 10, 2009
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 are some classic business DSS? by Dan Power Editor, DSSResources.com A DSS classic is an early and lasting example of using technology to support decision making. Decision supp...	DSS Foundations	Apr 09, 2011
What vendors have communications-driven DSS for collaboration? by Dan Power Editor, DSSResources.com With the growth of cloud computing more sophisticated communications-driven DSS have been developed to ass...	DSS Foundations	Dec 17, 2011
Should managers build decision support applications? by Dan Power Editor, DSSResources.com Managers get paid to manage, but in some situations managers can build computerized decision support capabi...	DSS Foundations	Feb 02, 2013
Can we engineer effective decision support systems? Daniel J. Power Editor, DSSResources.com Building effective computerized decision support systems is possible and increasingly common. Understandi...	Building DSS	Dec 30, 2012
How important is flexibility for a DSS? by Dan Power Editor, DSSResources.com In the early years of computerized decision support, Keen (1980) and Sprague and Carlson (1982) argued th...	DSS Foundations	Jul 09, 2008
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
What is the future of decision support and analytics? by Daniel J. Power Editor, DSSResources.COM Decision support and business analytics can provide managers the numbers and metrics for both day-to-...	DSS Foundations	Nov 26, 2019
How can video conferencing provide enhanced decision support? by Daniel J. Power Editor, DSSResources.COM In some situations, video conferencing can provide enhanced decision support. The major issue facing m...	DSS Foundations	May 24, 2015
What is the difference between a DSS and a DSS generator? This Ask Dan! expands upon the question "What is a DSS?" from September 12, 2004. John Wen had asked on the Free DSS Forum at DSSResources.C...	Building DSS	Aug 06, 2005
What is the history of AIS SIG DSS: ISDSS? by Dan Power Editor, DSSResources.com AIS SIG DSS: ISDSS refers to the Association for Information Systems (AIS) Special Interest Group (SIG) on ...	AIS SIG DSS	Mar 01, 2014
How can and should students collect field information about DSS? At least half of the Ask Dan! email questions come from students studying Decision Support Systems in an undergraduate or graduate academic program. R...	Building DSS	Aug 16, 2005
What is logical decision-making? by Daniel J. Power Editor, DSSResources.COM Many adjectives are used to modify the compound word decision making or decision-making. For example,...	DSS Foundations	Sep 10, 2019
Is parallel database technology needed for data-driven DSS? by Dan Power Editor, DSSResources.COM Few managers have heard of parallel computer processing and parallel databases. Nonetheless the desire of ...	Data-driven DSS	Mar 02, 2007
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
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
What skills do team leaders need for conducting effective virtual decision-making meetings? by Dan Power Editor, DSSResources.COM In general, team leaders need planning, organizing, staffing, directing and controlling skills (cf., Huber,...	Communications-driven DSS	Aug 02, 2006
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 is BPM related to DSS? by Dan Power Editor, DSSResources.com Those of us in the field of IS/IT really seem to like our acronyms. Sometimes however different sets of ve...	DSS Foundations	Mar 21, 2009
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
What is a data scientist? by Daniel J. Power Editor, DSSResources.COM A practitioner of the emerging discipline of data science is called a data scientist. Data science is...	DSS Foundations	Sep 26, 2014
When should managers use communications-driven decision support tools? by Dan Power Editor, DSSResources.com Communications-driven decision support systems can remedy a number of problems associated with group commun...	Communications-driven DSS	Sep 15, 2009
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
How can computerized decision support help in crisis situations? It seems that more crises are occurring in both business and public domains and the magnitude of them is also sometimes much larger than any previousl...	Crisis Management	Aug 16, 2005
What is the "true story" about using data mining to identify a relationship between sales of beer and diapers? by Dan Power Editor, DSSResources.com For many years we have told the story of using data mining to find a relationship between sales of "beer an...	Knowledge-driven DSS	Mar 26, 2011
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
What are examples of bad strategic business decisions? by Daniel J. Power Editor, DSSResources.COM Bad strategic business decisions lead to bad results. The consequences of implementing the decision ma...	DSS Foundations	Jun 22, 2015
What are example uses of business analytics? by Daniel J. Power Editor, DSSResources.COM There are many applications and uses of business analytics. Quantitative and analytical models and to...	DSS Foundations	Nov 24, 2018
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 decision system? Daniel J. Power, Ciara Heavin, and Peter Keenan A decision system is a collection of information-processing components that interact to make deci...	DSS Foundations	Sep 02, 2018

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