DSS News
 
D. J. Power, Editor
 
December 11, 2011             Vol. 12, No.25 
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Happy Holidays and Happy New Year 
Vol. 13, No. 1 is scheduled for Sunday, January 8, 2012
 
 
1) What vendors have communications-driven DSS for collaboration? 
2) Recent DSS News Headlines 
3) Upcoming DSS Conferences/Call for Papers 
 
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1) What vendors have communications-driven DSS for collaboration?
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by Dan Power 
Editor, DSSResources.com 
  
With the growth of cloud computing more sophisticated 
communications-driven DSS have been developed to assist managers 
in collaborative decision-making situations where they are making 
tactical and strategic decisions. Communications-driven DSS is a 
type of DSS that emphasizes communications, collaboration and 
shared decision-making support. Current products do much more 
than supporting multiple people in sharing ideas and accessing 
data. Newer systems build on the place-based group DSS of the 
1980s and 1990s and add the social media and Web 2.0 capabilities 
of recent years to build more sophisticated web-based 
collaborative platforms.
  
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2) Recent DSS News Headlines
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12/08/2011 IBM unveils analytics solution to help clients extract insight from patents and intellectual property.  Check release. 
12/08/2011 Estimating software helps fuel manufacturing initiatives with Colleges.  Check release. 
12/08/2011 Analytics goes to the head of the class at Northwestern University; two new Masters degree programs.  Check release. 
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3) Upcoming DSS Conferences/Call for Papers
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1. Call for IS/T book proposals. 
Click here 
  
2. 4th KES International Conference on 
Intelligent Decision Technologies (IDT-2012), 
23-25 May 2012, Gifu, Japan.
Click here
  
3. Call for papers: DSS’2012 – 16th IFIP WG8.3 International 
Conference on Decision Support Systems, Anávissos, Greece, 
June 28-30 2012. 
Click here
  
4. Call for papers: European Journal of Information Systems, 
Special Issue on Transforming Decision-Making Processes: 
The Next IS Frontier, due February 1, 2012. 
Click here
  
5. Call for papers: 20th European Conference on 
Information Systems (ECIS 2012), Track: "Business 
Intelligence and Knowledge Management", Barcelona, 
Spain June 10-13, 2012.
Click here
  
 
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