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data mining and decision support

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Business Objects Announces Data Mining Partnership With Right Information Systems; Leading Decision Support Tools Vendor Partners with Right Information Systems to Provide Customers with Link Between BusinessObjects and 4Tune
CUPERTINO, Calif.--BUSINESS WIRE--May 20, 1996--Business Objects (NASDAQ: BOBJY), the world's leading provider of integrated query, reporting, and online analytical processing OLAP tools, today announced a partnership with Right Information Systems.
Tags: Business Objects, data mining, decision support, information system
Research articles 1996-05-20
Building ROI-Based Decision Support Simulators
This paper outlines an analytical planning framework for building a decision support simulator that will enable the user to: 1) quantify the presence or absence of linkages between product and/or service quality perceptions and financial outcomes, 2) determine the strength and leveragability of such relationships and 3) rank alternative product...
Tags: Financial, Decision Support, ROI, Burke, Data Mining, Tools & Techniques, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Management
White papers 2002-01-01
2001 A Technology Odyssey
Across a wide variety of sectors, new technology is revolutionizing the way real estate owners manage their properties. To successfully manage our portfolio of properties, we needed better access to information, and to be able to use that information to support decision-making. The paper focuses on multiple forecasts and multiple...
Tags: REIT, Decision Support, Technology, Real Estate, Data Mining, Tools & Techniques, Investment, Databases, Business Operations, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Management, Finance
White papers 2001-03-01
Effectively Using Real Options
To maximise value from its asset base, an organisation needs access to advanced decision support tools. At the core of almost every major energy enterprise is a portfolio of assets. The assets are used to generate, store and transport the energy commodities. As the allure of large profits through pure...
Tags: Asset, Decision Support, Asset Management, Data Mining, Transportation, Operational Planning, Business Operations, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management
White papers 2003-01-01
Assessing a Knowledge-Based Approach to Commercial Loan Underwriting
This article talks about the challenges in developing decision support tools for commercial underwriting and describe how several different approaches to the underwriting problem have been addressed in practice. It describe an expert system based approach to credit underwriting that has been in commercial usage for over five years in...
Tags: Knowledge, Approach, Moody's Corp., Decision Support, Expert System, Inference Mechanism, Data Mining, Tools & Techniques, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Management
White papers 2000-10-01
Outpatient Prescription History in the Hospital
The major strategies for preventing medication errors and adverse drug events ADEs include solutions that can improve communications, make knowledge more readily accessible, assist with calculations, perform checks in real-time, and provide decision support. Nearly half of serious medication errors have been found to result from the fact that clinicians...
Tags: Montgomery Research Inc., Hospital, Decision Support, Data Mining, Tools & Techniques, Productivity, Databases, Strategy, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Management
White papers 2004-06-29
Operation and Maintenance Decision Support
Companies that automate the process of diagnosing faults and performance degradation in equipment can lower costs and increase profits by increasing the life-cycle of critical components. Decision support technologies, such as automated diagnostics and on-line condition monitoring, can translate years of operations and maintenance engineering experience and fundamental physical principles...
Tags: Battelle Memorial Institute, Decision Support, Data Mining, Tools & Techniques, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Management
Case studies
Translating Research Into Practice: Organizational Issues in Implementing Automated Decision Support for Hypertension in Three Medical Centers
This paper focuses on information technology, which can support the implementation of clinical research findings in practice settings. Technology can address the quality gap in health care by providing automated decision support to clinicians that integrates guideline knowledge with electronic patient data to present real-time, patient-specific recommendations. However, technical success...
Tags: Patient, Stanford University, Decision Support, Clinician, Data Mining, Tools & Techniques, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Management
White papers 2004-10-01
Future Trends in Collaborative Product Data Management Systems
This paper first reviews trends in organization and information technology - from collaborations, operational challenges, and customer participation to new software paradigms. These trends define a new set of requirements for the collaborating organizations at all levels in product life cycle. Product Data Management PDM systems that support collaborative environment...
Tags: Team, Decision Support, Modeling, Research & Development, Data Mining, Tools & Techniques, Change Management, Data Management, Team Management, Databases, Business Operations, Enterprise Software, Software, Management
White papers 2003-03-27
Enabling Assisted Strategic Negotiations in Actual-World Procurement Scenarios
This article presents the foundations of Quotes, a sourcing commercial application developed by iSOCO that, in addition to cover the whole sequence of sourcing tasks, incorporates decision support facilities based on Artificial Intelligence AI techniques that successfully address previous limitations within a single and coherent framework. The paper focuses on...
Tags: Sourcing, Decision Support, Negotiation, Purchasing & Procurement, Data Mining, Tools & Techniques, Strategy, Databases, Business Operations, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Management
White papers 2004-11-18
Finance Transformed: How Leading Companies Are Succeeding
The paper deals with a survey of CFOs and other senior financial executives which finds that companies that invest in stronger decision support capabilities are more likely than other companies to be capable of meeting the real-time disclosure requirements mandated by Sarbanes-Oxley. For example, of those who can report material...
Tags: CFO Publishing Corp., Financial, Decision Support, Forecasting, Data Mining, Financial Accounting, Tools & Techniques, Sales Force Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Finance, Management, Sales
White papers 2003-09-01
Decision Support and Automation in Plain English: Examples in Natural Language Processing
By capturing the reasons for decisions, business can not only manage the knowledge it relies upon to operate, it can also automate that knowledge within decision support and automation systems. This document describes how HaleyAuthority helps business people define and manage their vocabulary definitions and decision criteria as grammatical sentences...
Tags: Natural Language Processing, Knowledge, Natural Language, Decision Support, Automation, Haley Systems, Data Mining, Tools & Techniques, Databases, Strategy, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Management
White papers 2004-11-18
Protecting the Public Health Through Knowledge: National Institutes of Health
The National Institutes of Health NIH is one of eight agencies of the Public Health Service and part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. NIH decided that, to meet its users' need for easy access to integrated business information, it needed outside help to bring a data...
Tags: Data Warehouse, Public Health, Knowledge, Decision Support, Health Care, BearingPoint Inc., NIH Data Warehouse, Business Intelligence, Data Mining, Tools & Techniques, Databases, Healthcare, Storage, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Management, Hardware
Case studies
Upfront: Decision Support Outweighs Compliance in IT Investments
For the Chief Financial Officers of some of the leading companies, a need for better decision support capabilities is the top driver of corporate investment in the finance function. This paper depicts about a survey conducted by Cap Gemini Ernst & Young, three-quarters of respondents cited gaps in corporate decision...
Tags: Information Technology, Compliance, IT Investment, Decision Support, Penton Media Inc., Finance, Data Mining, Tools & Techniques, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Management
White papers 2004-01-01
Growing Ownership and Instilling Confidence for a Decision Support Approach at the Stakeholder Level
In a globally operating company, when a country management team base their opposition to the global product marketing strategy on a System Dynamics simulation tool, the model is definitely to support communication across the management layers in a bottom-up way. To reach out to stakeholders and global management at the...
Tags: Decision Support, Stakeholder, Dowling College, Data Mining, Tools & Techniques, Product Marketing, Team Management, Productivity, Marketing Research, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Management, Marketing
White papers 2005-05-11
The Virtual Reality Concept for the Warehouse Simulation Model Implementation
This paper presents a method of warehouse simulation model implementation using concepts of Virtual Reality VR. The basic idea is to compare the "Real process" controlled by operator with his/her heuristics to the "Virtual process" represented by a simulation model, controlled by the optimization algorithm. The optimization algorithm is based...
Tags: Decision Support, University Of Maribor, Optimization Algorithm, Data Mining, Virtual Reality, Tools & Techniques, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Emerging Technologies, Management
White papers 2005-07-04
Decision Support Tool - Supply Chain
This paper presents a currently developed Decision Support Tool - Supply Chain (DST-SC). This is specialized domain oriented tool, which is an extension of the general purpose, UML-RT Hybrid Simulation kernel of AnyLogic by XJ Technologies. DST-SC allows high degree of flexibility with respect to the supply chain functionality being...
Tags: Supply Chain, Decision Support, DST-SC, Supply Chain Management (SCM), Data Mining, Tools & Techniques, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Management
White papers 2002-11-15
Experience-Based Decision Support for Project Management With Case-Based Reasoning
Projects have to handle a dynamic context with a lot of unexpected events. The more experienced project members are, the more likely it is that they can make the right decisions within critical situations. They can draw on experiences collected within similar situations in the past. By considering knowledge about...
Tags: Project Management, Knowledge, Reasoning Inc., Decision Support, Daimler AG, Strategy, Data Mining, Tools & Techniques, Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management
White papers 2002-02-05
Conceptual Design for a Strategic Human Resources Quality Management System
As companies begin to compete in the challenging business environment of the new millennium, an ever-increasing reason for success lies in the function of effective Human Resource Management HRM. Controlling these resources (physical, organizational, information and human) gives the company the competitive advantage. The main purpose of this paper is...
Tags: HRM, Decision Support, Cairo University, Human Resource Management (HRM), Data Mining, Organizational Structure, Tools & Techniques, Strategic Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Human Resources, Management
White papers 2002-11-06
Developing an Online Dispute Resolution Environment: Dialogue Tools and Negotiation Support Systems in a Three-Step Model
In this paper, one has investigated how to provide decision support for disputes that parties attempt to resolve in cyberspace. Recent research has revolved around developing systems that allow disputants to communicate online. The approach has been to merge techniques developed from argumentation, artificial intelligence, and game theory to provide...
Tags: Theory, Environment, Decision Support, Tool, Negotiation, Vrije Universiteit, Data Mining, Tools & Techniques, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Management
White papers 2005-04-08
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