Decision Support News
D. J. Power, Editor
August 18, 2013 Vol. 14, No. 17
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1) What are examples of database project failures?
2) Recent DSS News Headlines
3) Upcoming Decision Support Conferences/Call for Papers
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What are examples of database project failures?
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by Daniel Power
Editor, DSSResources.com
Database centered projects for decision support and transaction
processing do fail. How often? According to a study
of IT projects by The Standish Group reported in 1995, "Only 9%
of projects in large companies were successful. At 16.2% and 28%
respectively, medium and small companies were somewhat more
successful." Hopefully not that often. Failure meant time and cost
overruns and content deficiencies in IT projects. These were a variety
of IT projects and perhaps project management has improved. Let's
review some database centered project failures and more recent research
on project failure.
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2) Recent DSS News Headlines
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08/14/2013 2013 NoSQL Now! Conference and Expo August 20 -22 at the San Jose Convention Center. Check release.
08/14/2013 IBM awarded 10 Year $1 billion cloud hosting services contract to assist US Department Of Interior's move to cloud computing. Check release.
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3) Upcoming Decision Support Conferences/Call for Papers/Books
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1. Papers due August 29, 2013: Workshop "Reshaping Society through Analytics, Collaboration, and Decision Support" December 15, 2013 in Milan,
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2. DSI Annual meeting, Baltimore, MD
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3. INFORMS Conference on Information Systems and Technology
Oct. 5-6, 2013. Click here
4. ICIS December 15-18, 2013 Click here
5. Deadline December 15, 2013 Call for papers: DSS 2.0 – Supporting decision making with new technologies, Paris, June 2-5, 2014 Click here
Order Dan Power's new book: Decision Support, Analytics, and Business Intelligence, Second Edition
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