DSS News
D. J. Power, Editor
January 22, 2012 Vol. 13, No. 2
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1) Norman Marks Interview "Risk Management and DSS"
2) How does decision support processing differ from
transaction processing?
3) Recent DSS News Headlines
4) Upcoming DSS Conferences/Call for Papers
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1) Norman Marks Interview "Risk Management and DSS"
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Marks is a Vice President, Evangelist at SAP. Read the interview at
http://dssresources.com/interviews/marks/marks12212011.html
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2)
How does decision support processing differ from
transaction processing?
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by Dan Power
Editor, DSSResources.com
Information systems can be categorized in many ways, but
historically business information systems began as tools
to record and process transactions. It is still useful
to distinguish between informational decision support and
transaction processing systems. Transaction processing is
divided into individual, indivisible operations, called
transactions. More specifically, a transaction is a discrete
unit of work that must be completely processed by a computer
system or it fails. For example, entering a customer order
is an example of a transaction. Decision support or
informational systems summarize and report on transactions.
Continue reading at
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Click for more Frequently Asked Questions
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3) Recent DSS News Headlines
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01/19/2012 UNIT4 set to disrupt performance management software
market. Check release.
01/17/2012 OpenText Web and Social Analytics delivers deep
insights for online marketers Check release.
01/17/2012 Hosted predictive analytics solution LityxIQ 2.0
now available. Check release.
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4) Upcoming DSS Conferences/Call for Papers
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1. Call for IS/T book proposals.
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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
6. Call for papers: AIS SIG DSS mini-tracks at
18th Americas Conference on Information Systems,
Seattle, Washington August 9-12, 2012.
Click here
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