DS Systems

DS systems are critical in organizations today for they help make practical use of computers to help make important decisions. Computerized decision support systems became practical with the development of minicomputers, timeshare operating systems and distributed computing.[i] These systems cut away from the time it would take humans to make the decisions and also lets you analyze the data where there might be errors occurring. The Decision Support Systems has been evolving through out the decades and are not new to organizational use. The most recent evolutionary phase of DSS was when the internet came to be and web-based DSS were able to perform tasks for organizations. One example of a web-based DSS is Booz-Allens Purchasing Analysis Tool. This allows organizations to, “…analysis of historic purchasing data; predefined graphs and reports for performing analysis within and across business units; and a flexible Java-based OLAP tool for drill-down, pivot, filter, and selection on a purchasing database.”[ii] This type of software will let you save time from going over thousands of records and collecting data to make tables and analyze how your business is doing. You are able to get many reports that explain how a organization is performing without wasting the man power. You also are saving money by eliminating the people that have to analyze the data. This is a more cost efficient way of examining an organization. In the research I have been doing some think that Web-Based DSS are the future because, “…Web based decision services can support information exchange and knowledge, software and model sharing from different organizations through web.”[iii] This idea links DSS services through Web 2.0 and will allow organizations to expand, grow, and work more proficiently. When you start to dig deeper into the theoretical side of DSS it starts to get very confusing. Best way of putting it was by Hemant Bhargava, “… The emerging web-based collaborative decision support services (WCDSS) are driven by Practical necessity rather than by abstract theory.”[iv] The actual thought of what is needed is actually becoming a necessity in today’s business world.

[i] http://dssresources.com/history/dsshistory.html

[ii] http://www.taborcommunications.com/dsstar/98/0818/100261.html

[iii] http://www.isprs.org/proceedings/XXXVI/part2/pdf/wang.pdf

[iv] http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~compsim/articles/kri-joc-web.pdf
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