Session 16

Decision Support Systems 150:127 -- D. Power

Today's Agenda -- Thursday, March 1, 2007

• CLASS CANCELLED DUE TO WEATHER
• Demonstration of PlanningDSS.com, a model-driven, web-based group DSS
• Tutorial 2 "List Management and Pivot Tables". On p. 87 Figure 2-25 after step 3 print rows 1-7, page 103 step 6 print, page 108 print AgeAnalysis step 5 (values will differ from Fig. 2-45), page 113 step 3 print drill down results (values will differ from Fig. 2-49). (5 points)

To Do and Upcoming

• For Class Session 17 -- Tuesday, March 6, 2007
1. Read Ask Dan! "What do I need to know about Data Warehousing/OLAP?"
2. Read Ch. 8. Building Data and Document-driven DSS
   1. What are the 4 characteristics of a data warehouse?
   2. How does a Data-Driven DSS differ from a Document-Driven DSS?
   3. What is OLAP?
   4. How can managers increase the chances for success of a Data-Driven or a Document-driven DSS project?
   5. What is an example of a document-driven DSS?
   6. Why is normalization not required (and is usually not desirable) for DSS data?