Decision Support Systems

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 …

…given examples of different decision support systems. Each of the systems has their own unique purpose and serves a different type of industry. The first DSS I talked about, NETWISE, served the truckload transportation industry. The second one, Vision, serves the computer industry. The third one, Huff’s MAP 2000, serves the planning industry. As can be seen from my examples decision support systems are used in many different industries and prove to Bo very helpful.