Session 26

Decision Support Systems 150:127 -- D. Power

Today's Agenda -- Thursday, April 12, 2007

  • How will Web 2.0 impact deesign and development of decision support systems? Check video Web 2.0 ... The Machine is Us/ing Us (4.31 min.) by Michael Wesch, Assistant Professor at Kansas State University.
    1. information from containers/repositories
    2. bandwidth is high, low cost and universally accessible
    3. users can manipulate data, not just retrieve data. The AJAX revolution
    4. users can do things on the Web that can't be done in any other way
  • Discuss Ch. 11. Building Web-based and Interorganizational DSS
    1. How does a web-based DSS differ from a web-enabled DSS?
    2. What are 2 major advantages of building and deploying a web-based DSS?
    3. What is an example of a thin client-executed, model-driven decision aid program?
    4. What is HTML? Is it a programming language?
  • Revisit PlanningDSS.com. Check About PlanningDSS.com
    1. Needs more Alpha testing
    2. Needs divergent phases for situation analysis
    3. Create a more specific template for corporate strategic planning with prescribed steps
  • Ask Dan "What software tools should be used to build Web-based DSS?"
    1. Linux, the operating system
    2. Apache, the Web server
    3. MySQL, the database management system and server
    4. PHP, the scripting/programming language
  • JavaScript Decision Aid Exercise


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To Do and Upcoming

  • Read DSS Ch. 12