Decision-makers need to be able to quickly get a handle on the issues that influence business performance and secure the resources to deal with them efficiently and effectively. It is central to rising above the competition and securing profitability. Unfortunately, creating this decision culture hasn't been easy. With data pouring...
The paper aims at analysing Business Intelligence Systems BI in the context of opportunities for improving decision-making in a contemporary organisation. The authors - taking specifics of a decision-making process together with heterogeneity and dispersion of information sources into consideration - present Business Intelligence Systems as some holistic infrastructure of...
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...
In the current economy the Data Warehouse constitutes a fundamental tool to support decision making processes. However, to take better advantage of enterprise information assets, it is necessary to rely on the information provided, or at least, that its reliability degree can be appropriately evaluated and considered during decision making....
Decision making requires both information and knowledge. Information or its absence is central to decision making situations involving uncertainty and complexity, while knowledge or its absence is associated with problems of ambiguity and equivocality. This paper proposes that computer-based decision support technologies are appropriate to supporting decision making under conditions...
This paper discusses the design and application of a decision support system DSS based on the third-generation distributed dynamic decision-making (DDD-III) simulator and contingency theory to increase the organizational cognitive capacity and to facilitate the processes of adaptation. The role of the DSS is to provide mission-monitoring and re-planning information...
The design of general support systems for military activities would greatly facilitate co-ordination and co-operation between different positions throughout the organization, increase flexibility in solving unknown tasks, and provide more cost-effective solutions. Command and Control (C2), as well as other types of business and military management, show generic features that...
The paper focuses on the real time operations centers that can be used to impact many of the problems faced in the industry today. They provide a means to construct a process, which can deal with the data management problem. They provide a means to leverage the knowledge and expertise...
Construction organizations are critically dependent on data. But data must be available in suitable forms for use. Timely access to useful and meaningful information can enable construction companies gain competitive edge, increase client satisfaction, expand market share and enhance profitability. Vast amounts of construction operational data are scattered across multiple,...
Information Systems IS are tools and instruments engaged in recording, analyzing, and disseminating strategic information within the organization. They play an important role in the decision making process. Access to precise information leads to more effective and efficient decisions. Decision Support Systems DSS are interactive IT based systems which utilize...
Management is responsible for determining where Decision Support Systems DSS can have the greatest impact. DSS can improve performance by speeding up decision-making or improving the quality of decisions made. The paper examines the support systems, which enhance management decision-making in organizations. The applications and advantages of the same are...
Decision-making involves choosing the most appropriate solution to a problem from amongst a large number of solutions. It entails evaluating pros and cons of each solution, in context of prevailing circumstances, and accordingly making the decision. Managers in an organization have to perennially make decisions. Decision Support Systems DSS are...
From the executive summary: ‘Activity-Based Costing ABC has made “do-able” Customer Profitability Analysis CPA, Product-Line Profitability Analysis PPA, and order costing for wholesale distributors. These decision-making tools are possible because of new software and hardware technologies. The new technologies have been categorized as Business Intelligence Solutions BIS and Decision Support...
With the exponential growth in the amount of data being collected, improvements in technology, and research in machine learning, retailers are now able to reduce the ever growing difficult and complex decision making process by recruiting the efforts of data mining. Data mining is a computerized technology that uses complicated...
This paper discusses DSS and knowledge management in Singerian organizations and calls for a new decision-making paradigm for DSS. This paper describes decision making and knowledge management KM issues in inquiring organizations. The paper further argues that a new paradigm for decision making is needed within decision support systems. This...
SAN DIEGO & ORLANDO, Fla. -- ParAccel, Inc., provider of the ParAccel Analytic Database, a high-speed, low-effort, columnar database management system, and Pentaho Corporation, the commercial open source alternative for business intelligence BI, today announced a partnership to deliver an extremely high performance, integrated database platform and BI environment for...
AIRLINE INDUSTRY INFORMATION-C1997-2008 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD PASSUR Aerospace (OTC:PSSR), which operates a database of flight information with proprietary decision-making software, has announced a new contract with Milwaukee County's General Mitchell International Airport. The airport has signed an agreement to acquire the Field Condition Report FCR module,...
Oracle database Ajax & PHP web application development. Barney, Lee and Michael McLaughlin. McGraw-Hill 2008 458 pages $49.99 Paperback QA76.9 After introducing modularity, objects, and scalability decision making in both JavaScript and PHP, two...
CHICAGO -- ParAccel, Inc., provider of the ParAccel Analytic Database[TM], a high-speed, low-effort, columnar database management system, and JasperSoft Corporation, the market leader in open-source business intelligence BI, today announced a partnership and plans to make available JasperSoft's Business Intelligence Suite for the ParAccel Analytic Database. The joint solution will...
GREENWICH, Conn., May 8 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- PASSUR Aerospace, Inc. (BULLETIN BOARD: PSSR) announced today that its new stock symbol is PSSR. On April 16, 2008, stockholders of PASSUR Aerospace, Inc. voted at the company's annual meeting to change the company's name to PASSUR Aerospace, Inc., from Megadata...
