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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
What is an information system? by Daniel J. Power Editor, DSSResources.com Modern information systems combine computing hardware, software, networking and storage infrastructu...	DSS Foundations	Jan 11, 2020
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
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 does the Facebook database operate? by Daniel J. Power Editor, DSSResources.COM In March 2013, Facebook, the social networking megaplatform, reported it had 1.11 billion active user...	DSS Foundations	Aug 24, 2013
How do data storage strategies differ among uses? by Daniel J. Power Editor, DSSResources.COM Everything that happens is being digitized. Customers are data, processes are data, supply chains are...	DSS Foundations	Aug 13, 2018
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
How does DSS data differ from operational data? by Daniel J Power Editor, DSSResources.com Decision support data used for analytics and data-driven DSS is related to past actions and intentions...	DSS Foundations	Aug 07, 2016
What increases success for data-based decision support? by Daniel J. Power Editor, DSSResources.com Data-based decision support development is a company-wide effort and requires many resources, includi...	DSS Foundations	Jul 09, 2017
What are the steps to develop data-based decision support? by Ciara Heavin and Daniel J. Power Encouraging and developing data-based decision support is an organization-wide effort and requires many resou...	DSS Foundations	Mar 18, 2018
What is the theory of decision support systems? by Dan Power Editor, DSSResources.com Past practice and experience usually guide computerized decision support development more than theory and g...	DSS Theory	Aug 06, 2005
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 is a data warehouse appliance? by Dan Power Editor, DSSResources.com In general, a data warehouse (DW) appliance is an integrated hardware and software bundled application. A...	Data-driven DSS	Feb 19, 2012
What do I need to know about Data Warehousing/OLAP? by Daniel J. Power Editor, DSSResources.COM A data warehouse is a central, integrated repository for historical, enterprise data from multiple bus...	Data-driven DSS	Oct 12, 2014
What is the difference between knowledge management and decision support? by Dan Power Editor, DSSResources.com Both academics and software vendors can over promote technology advantages and solutions. We seem to get e...	DSS Foundations	Dec 18, 2015
What are Analytical Information Systems? by Dan Power Editor, DSSResources.com Analytical Information Systems provide information, analysis and possibly recommendations. Henry Morri...	DSS Foundations	Dec 29, 2015
What is a Spatial DSS? &subarticlby Dan Power Editor, DSSResources.com Web-based systems like Google Maps and MapQuest have demonstrated the importance and value of hav...	Data-driven DSS	Aug 06, 2005
What is a data warehouse? by Dan Power Editor, DSSResources.com A data warehouse is a database designed to support decision making in organizations. It stores historical o...	DSS Foundations	Nov 28, 2010
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 data? by Daniel J. Power Data is important. Data is growing rapidly. Approximately 2.5 quintillion bytes of data are created each day or 2.5 billion giga...	DSS Foundations	Jan 06, 2020
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 major managerial dilemmas of digital transformation? by Daniel J. Power Editor, DSSResources.com Managers face some difficult choices among potentially disruptive or in other ways undesirable soluti...	DSS Foundations	May 29, 2017
How do data-driven, data-based and data-informed decision making differ? by Ciara Heavin and Daniel J. Power Managers are preoccupied with making better use of data – internal organizational data, customer data, supp...	DSS Foundations	Jul 24, 2017
What is ACID and BASE in database theory? by Daniel J. Power Editor, DSSResources.COM Data-driven and document-driven decision support systems derive functionality from data stores and da...	DSS Foundations	Oct 12, 2013
What is business intelligence? by Dan Power Editor, DSSResources.com Business intelligence (BI) is often viewed as a term similar to military or competitive intelligence. And h...	DSS Foundations	Aug 06, 2005
Is email a good decision support tool? by Dan Power Editor, DSSResources.COM NO! Although many of us have grown attached to email over the years and our email tools have gotten more s...	Communications-driven DSS	Oct 22, 2006
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 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
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
How does business analytics differ from data analytics? by Daniel J. Power Editor, DSSResources.COM Both business analytics and data analytics are relatively new terms in the business lexicon. Students...	DSS Foundations	Jun 24, 2018
What should managers know about business intelligence and data-driven decision support? by Dan Power Editor, DSSResources.COM Most managers want to make fact-based decisions. Many large organizations have implemented database syste...	DSS Foundations	Aug 13, 2012
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
Does the term big data have utility for managers? by Daniel J. Power Editor, DSSResources.COM Big data is a colorful phrase for a significant change in data capture, retrieval and storage. Each...	Data-driven DSS	Apr 10, 2014

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