business applications that usually contain summaries of large amounts of data, filtered and synthesized particularly to support strategic decision-making. View records related to this term
Computer technologies used in healthcare which allow providers to collect and analyze data in more sophisticated and complex ways. Activities supported include case mix, budgeting, cost accounting, clinical protocols and pathways, outcomes, and actuarial analysis.
"A computer based system that helps the decision maker utilize data and models to solve unstructured problems." (Sprague & Carlson, 1982; quoted after Grimshaw, p.97)
DSS is an interactive software-based system that allows users to make business and organisational decisions based on information gained by looking at raw data, documents and knowledge.
Information system application, which helps users on making decisions by providing useful information that supports unstructured decisions.
Decision Support Systems (DSS) are a specific class of computerized information systems that support business and organizational decision-making activities. A properly designed DSS is an interactive software-based system intended to help decision makers compile useful information from raw data, documents, personal knowledge, and/or business models to identify and solve problems and make decisions. Decision support systems, by definition, should aid in and strengthen some kind of choice process.
An interactive system that provides the user with easy access to decision models and data, to support semistructured decision-making tasks
Software application that helps to analyze data contained with a customer database. (Also known as Executive Information Systems, EIS)
Software that supports exception reporting, stop light reporting, standard repository, data analysis and rule-based analysis. A database created for end-user ad-hoc query processing.