Decision Support Systems (DSS)
Decision Support is a methodology (or a series of methodologies) designed to extract information from data and to use such information as a basis for decision making.
A decision support system (DSS) is an arrangement of computerized tools used to assist managerial decision making within a business.
- A DSS usually requires extensive data “massaging” to produce information.
- The DSS is used at all levels within an organization and is often tailored to focus on specific business area or problems.
- The DSS is interactive and provides ad hoc query tools to retrieve data and to display data in different formats.