Decision-support system | industrial engineering | Britannica (original) (raw)

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information systems

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  In information system: Decision support systems and business intelligence
  …decision making, however indirectly, but decision support systems are expressly designed for this purpose. As these systems are increasingly being developed to analyze massive collections of data (known as big data), they are becoming known as business intelligence, or business analytics, applications. The two principal varieties of decision support systems…
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operations research

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  In operations research: Decision analysis and support
  …recently, decision support systems (DSS) have been developed to project and predict the results of decisions before they are made. These projections permit managers and analysts to evaluate the possible consequences of decisions and to try several alternatives on paper before committing valuable resources to actual programs.
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