FALL 2011 Decision Support System and Managerial Decision Making Prof. Hassan Qudrat-Ullah Due Date: December 8‚ 2011 By: Farazeh Khalid Mian Abhishek Sahi Table of Contents SECTION NUMBER | SECTION NAME | PAGE NUMBER | | Abstract | 3 | 11.11.2 | IntroductionWhat is decision making? What is a Decision Support System? | 3‚ 44‚ 5‚ 6 | 22.12.22.3 | Literature Review DSS in the business environmentImportant attributes of the Decision Support SystemCapabilities
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Chapter 8 Decision Support Systems Managers and Decision Making A decision refers to a choice made between alternatives. Why Managers Need the Support of Information Technology. It is very difficult to make good decisions without valid‚ timely and relevant information. Number of alternatives to be considered is increasing Many decisions are made under time pressure. Due to uncertainty in the decision environment‚ it is frequently necessary to conduct a sophisticated analysis
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Figure 1: Decision Support Systems. Retrieved from http://www.dreamstime.com/royalty-free-stock-images-word-cloud-dss-decision-support-system-related-items-image35542029 INTRODUCTION Decision Support System (DSS) is a computer based system which uses analytical models‚ specialized databases and aids the decision makers in making complex decisions in an organization. In the old days‚ a group of professional people in a company used to consider various factors and variables while taking a complex
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Decision Support Systems Marek J. Druzdzel and Roger R. Flynn Decision Systems Laboratory School of Information Sciences and Intelligent Systems Program University of Pittsburgh Pittsburgh‚ PA 15260 {marek‚flynn}@sis.pitt.edu http://www.sis.pitt.edu/∼dsl To appear in Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science‚ Second Edition‚ Allen Kent (ed.)‚ New York: Marcel Dekker‚ Inc.‚ 2002 1 Contents Introduction Decisions and Decision Modeling Types of Decisions . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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6.0 DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS 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. DSSs include knowledge-based systems. A properly designed DSS is an interactive software-based system intended to help decision makers compile useful information
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BBIT 421/CISY 427: DECISION SUPPORT AND EXPERT SYSTEMS Decision support systems: These systems give direct computer support to managers during the decision-making process. For example‚ advertising managers may use an electronic spreadsheet program to do what-if analysis as they test the impact of alternative advertising budgets on the forecasted sales of new products. Decision support systems are computer-based information systems that provide interactive information support to managers and business
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with situations that need critical analysis‚ compilation of raw data‚ circulation of precise documents and effective utilization of computer systems. Frito Lay is an example of a company who implemented various decision support systems (DSS) into their business model. A DSS is a “highly flexible and interactive IT system that is designed to support decision making when the problem is not structured.” (Haag‚ Cummins p.162) Managers require information to guide their organization in the right direction
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ASSIGNMENT OF INFORMATION SYSTEM AND ADMINISTRATION 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
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Decision Support Systems (DSS) A Decision Support System (DSS) is an information system at the management level of an organization that combines data‚ analytical tools‚ and models to support semistructured and unstructured decision-making. A DSS can handle low volume or massive databases optimized for data analysis. DSS has more power than other systems. They are built explicitly with a variety of models to analyze data or they condense large amounts of data into a form where they can be analyzed
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information system and a decision support system. Why are decision support systems suited for executive decision making? Why must an executive support system be flexible and easy to use? Both management information systems and decision support systems generate information that help make daily decisions within a business that are fast and efficient to produce productivity. Decision support systems are suited for executives because executives make many unstructured business decisions that requires
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