Blog Question # 2

1. Decision Support Systems (DSS) are a specific class of computerized information system that supports business and organizational decision-making activities.

2. DSS or Decision Support Systems is a 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. While in MIS or Management Information System, it is an overall internal controls of a business like the application of people, documents, technology and procedures in solving business problems or to support of human decision making of the top managers, e.g. the decision support systems

3. DDS can improve the company's competitive advantage and organizational performance by solving specific problems, gathering information like inventory of all of the current information assets, gathering the comparative sales figures between one week and the next, projected revenues figured based on new product sales assumptions and the consequences of different decision alternatives, give past experience, and all of the information can be extensively used in business management like allocation of business resources that help company increase its sales.

Reference:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decision_support_system

May Joy Lora

MGT 7

1815-1915