Decision Support Q & A

What is a modern decision support system?
by Dan Power
Editor, DSSResources.com

"Modern" keeps moving forward with computing and software progress, but generally the term means the system is "current", "up-to-date" or relatively "new". The modern era in decision support systems (DSS) started in many ways in 1995 with the specification of HTML 2.0 and the introduction of handheld computing and cell phones. Today the Web 2.0 technologies, mobile integrated devices and improved software development tools have revolutionized DSS user interfaces, while the decision support data store backend has gotten extremely powerful.

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