NAME : QUDSIA AZEEM
CLASS: BBA 3B
DATE : 27-3-2013
JINNAH UNIVERSITY FOR WOMEN
SUMMARY OF THE ARTICLE
DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS AND WEB TECHNOLOGIES: A STATUS REPORT
DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS, WORLD-WIDE WEB, DATA DRIVEN DSS,
MODEL-DRIVEN DSS, IMPLEMENTATION.
Introduction to DSS:
A decision support system (DSS) is a computer-based information system that supports business or organizational decision-making activities. DSSs serve the management, operations, and planning levels of an organization and help to make decisions, which may be rapidly changing and not easily specified in advance. Decision support systems can be either fully computerized, human or a combination of both.
DSSs include knowledge-based systems. A properly designed DSS is an interactive software-based system intended to help decision makers compile useful information from a combination of raw data, documents, and personal knowledge, or business models to identify and solve problems and make decisions.
World-Wide Web technologies have rapidly transformed the entire design, development and implementation process for all types of Decision Support Systems. In particular, Web technologies have provided a new media for sharing information about decision support and a new means of delivering decision support capabilities. For DSS developers, the big leap forward is to use the “Web as computer”.
Modern decision support systems (DSS) provide managers a wide range of capabilities. Computerized systems support decision tasks like information gathering, model building, sensitivity analysis, collaboration, alternative evaluation and decision implementation. Also, decision support is increasingly integrated in business processes and DSS are used for ad hoc analyses. This paper reviews the current status of Decision Support Systems in the context of developments in Web technologies.
The article contains brief historical reviews, discussions on