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databases and decision support

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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
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
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
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
EPM: Why It's the Next Big Thing
Senior managers at enterprises worldwide have always had a vision of an all-encompassing business information system that manages day-to-day business processes while providing the analytic insight necessary to make timely, informed, proactive business decisions. Many implemented ERP applications to achieve that goal, but these applications had little, if any, decision...
Tags: Decision Support, Better Management.com, Data Mining, Tools & Techniques, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Management
White papers
IRI Brings Next Generation of Analytics for CPG
Information Resources, Inc., a pioneer in market research and decision support software for the Consumer Packaged Goods CPG industry, recently held its annual Reinventing CPG Summit in San Francisco. IRI executives asserted that CPG manufacturers and retailers need to collaborate and adapt to the new demands of consumers who will...
Tags: Montgomery Research Inc., Analytics, Retail Company, Decision Support, Consumer Packaged Goods Industry, Data Mining, Tools & Techniques, Retail, Financial Planning, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Management, Finance
White papers 2005-09-13
Wisdom, Decision Support and Paradigms of Decision Making
Many decision support tools have been developed over the last 20 years and, in general, they support what Simon termed substantive rationality. However, such tools are rarely suited to helping people tackle wicked problems, which a form of procedural rationality is better suited. Procedurally rational approaches have appeared in both...
Tags: Decision Support, Decision-making, Tool, Elsevier, Data Mining, Tools & Techniques, Databases, Productivity, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Management
White papers 2004-09-13
Innovative Asset Management
Properly designed decision support environments encourage proactive and objective decision making. The work presented in this paper inquires into developing a decision support environment and a tool to facilitate objective decision making in dealing with road traffic noise. In this paper, the proposed decision support framework is presented in the...
Tags: Asset, Asset Management, Decision Support, Data Mining, Tools & Techniques, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Management
White papers 2006-06-14
Web-Based Implementation Of Winter Maintenance Decision Support System Using GIS And Remote Sensing
Winter maintenance, particularly snow removal and the stress of snow removal materials on public structures, is an enormous budgetary burden on municipalities and nongovernmental maintenance organizations in cold climates. Lately, geospatial technologies such as remote sensing, Geographic Information Systems GIS, and decision support tools are providing a valuable tool for...
Tags: Web, Iowa State University, Decision Support, Decision Support System, Tool, GIS, Transportation, Data Mining, Productivity, Tools & Techniques, Databases, Software, Enterprise Software, Data Management, Management
White papers 2005-05-01
Decision Support Within Complex Systems: An Experimental Approach Using The Strategem-2 Computer Game
The purpose of the paper is to provide meaningful decision support to managers of complex environments. Specifically, the research used the STRATEGEM-2 simulation game and purposely developed a decision support method designed to improve human performance within a complex system. The experiment required subjects to make a single decision within...
Tags: Decision Support, Data Mining, Tools & Techniques, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Management
White papers 2004-10-09
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