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This research paper deals with issues related to modern information and decision Support systems in private & governmental organizations. It also discusses each functional area of an organization examining its own body of information to collect, to analyze, to store and to use in decision-making for that particular function.

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The paper discusses how financial decisions support systems are comprised of applications that are used to collect, process, maintain, transmit, and report data about accounting or financial events. The paper discusses how businesses require a financial decision support system to be efficient, so establishing a system has to be integrated within the overall strategic development and process of the company. The paper explains how the integration or establishment of a management accounting information system is rather dynamic, since it has to be consistent with the current operations, while simultaneously completing the related financial/accounting processes in a timely manner.

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"Financial decisions support systems are comprised of applications that are used to collect, process, maintain, transmit, and report data about accounting or financial events. Businesses require a financial decision support system to be efficient, so establishing a system has to be integrated within the overall strategic development and process of the company. The integration or establishment of a management accounting information system is rather dynamic, since it has to be consistent with the current operations, while simultaneously completing the related financial/accounting processes in a timely manner. This paper will outline..."

Tags:decision, support, systems

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This paper compares the sophisticated Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) with the simpler Decision Support Systems (DSS), including their similarities and differences. The paper also discusses the role that support systems play in the decision-making process of organizations.

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"In business and politics, information is often equated to power. Having the right information at the right time can help decision makers make better decisions than when they are faced with inaccurate or incomplete information. However, companies tend to produce large amounts of data, sales inventory levels and customer information that must be organized into information in order to be useful to decision makers. Computer technology has provided decision makers with summary information since the..."

Tags:enterprise resource planning, ERP, decision support systems, DSS

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Introduction
This research reviews three decision support systems (DSSs). The three DSS tools reviewed are analytic hierarchy process (AHP), multicriteria attribute hierarchy process (MAHP), and conjoint analysis (CA). These DSS tools are reviewed from a managerial decision maker s perspective

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"DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS: A REVIEW OF AHP, MAHP, & CA

Introduction
This research reviews three decision support systems (DSSs). The three DSS tools reviewed are analytic hierarchy process (AHP), multicriteria attribute hierarchy process (MAHP), and conjoint analysis (CA). These DSS tools are reviewed from a managerial decision maker s perspective.

Analytic Hierarchy Process
Support for repetitive decision-making functions be provided by the AHP, which more typically is used to support one-time decisions. Criteria levels needed to evaluate various sets of alternatives are classified into groups that represent intensities of a criterion. Research has found that an absolute measurement approach opens other possibilities for AHP ..."

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This paper looks at how the article discusses the problems of unethical behavior in an organization and how decision support system can help in making more ethically sound decisions. It evaluates how the authors present an in-depth study of decision support system (DSS) and its implementation in organizations for ethical decision making. Decision support system is software that helps in analyzing various situations and presents different decision alternatives. It examines how although ethics have become an extremely important issue of debate in our corporate sector, very little attention is paid to ethicality of decisions made at managerial level. It shows how the authors cite various examples to prove that ethics is an important subject in organizations and thus DSS must be implemented to make decision-making process more precise and accurate.

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"Carlson and others have presented previous research findings in this connection to highlight the importance of ethics in organizations and to further support their argument in favor of implementation of information systems in decision-making process. Citing these researches, Dubinsky and Loken, 1989; Ferrell and Gresham, 1985; Fritzsche, 1995; Gottlieb and Sanzgiri, 1996; Hunt and Vitell, 1986; Jones, 1991; Rest, 1986; Trevino, 1986, the authors maintain that a lot of information is available on the subject of ethical decision making but there is significant fewer studies conducted ion the subject of support that should be given to the decision maker. Citing Carlson and Perrewe, 1995; Nielsen, 1990, Sims, 1991, they concur that very few well researched studies are available on support system which illustrates the fact that more in depth study is required in this area."

Tags:ethics, management, software, information

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The paper explains the need for improved traffic safety systems. The paper explains what fuzzy logic is, using the example of how it works to regulate temperatures on an air conditioner. It explains that fuzzy logic is used to measure imprecise and dynamic factors and allows for a reasonable judgement. In conclusion, writer states that fuzzy logic has improved the overall quality of life in other areas and posits that using fuzzy logic to assess traffic systems will result in traffic agencies making better overall decisions regarding traffic safety.

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"Fuzzy Logic allows us to measure imprecise and dynamic factors and allow for a reasonable judgement. For example, an air conditioner employing Fuzzy Logic can automatically regulate the temperature. If it's too hot, it will lower the temperature. It it's too cold, then it will increase the temperature. However, it's difficult to define what is "too hot" and what is "too cold". Also, there's the factor of humidity (dampness and dryness). Fuzzy Logic can control the system by accepting these dynamic variables and generating an optimal temperature output, providing better comfort for the user. Fuzzy Logic is now widely used in consumer electronics, agriculture, and manufacturing systems."

Tags:air, conditioner, imprecise, dynamic, factors

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The writer relates that the software application he is studying is offered by Spectrum Systems, Incorporated, which has software products useful for large and small businesses, along with government agencies. The writer describes how the software offered has a variety of applications including visual business applications with iRise, security applications with Watchfire, Coverity, and Security Innovation, JReport and Jinfonet for business reports, FacetCorp for maintaining servers, and many more applications to maintain business integrity, software, and hardware applications.

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"The software application I am studying is offered by Spectrum Systems, Incorporated, which has software products useful for large and small businesses, along with government agencies. The software offered has a..."

Tags:computer, software, systems

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"Information systems and information systems management, like the rest of the industrial world, have made the transition into the computer age. The constantly changing business world is starting to demand more from management executives than ever before. The explosion of computer and communications technology, the growing of the global business community, and the need to keep up with these and many more factors are demanding that management executives react quickly and effectively to changing business conditions. To adapt to this need for immediate knowledge of a given situation, many large corporations have begun to appoint chief information officers (CIO) to update and integrate their existing systems into a more modern totally integrated information system (LaPlante, 1990). The information system, then, is an integration of all computer systems in a ..."

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This paper explains that a decision support system is an all-inclusive term for all methods and tools and technologies that help an organization carry out its decision making process and support its decision-making. It shows how a computerized system may be referred to as a decision support system, especially when it does not involve the 'online transaction processing system' -OLTP. This is when software is helpful to the manager of a company by making certain decisions relating to the company and then the software or the PC that it runs on will be referred to as a decision support system or DSS. It explains that in addition, other information systems such as the EIS or 'Executive Information Systems' can all be put together under the category of 'decision support systems'.

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"The enterprise wide decision support systems are generally linked to large data systems and it would be used by a large number of managers within the company. This system facilitates a manager of a company that uses it to find out and get information about anything that would help him make his decision within a few minutes, that is, information is at his finger tips at all times. All relevant data can be either sliced up or diced up, or drilled down and graphed and charted up so that it is easily readable and comprehensible. A good example of a company that used this method of enterprise wide decision is the Mervyn Departmental Stores, which developed the 'decision maker's workbench' in the year 1994. Employees using this method have testified that the decision making process is infinitely easier and faster after using the DMW. Analyses are performed by the DMW on the present trends, performances and the stock inventory of the Mervyn Store. (What is a Decision Support System?)"

Tags:software, pc, company, information

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The paper discusses how management decision-making styles may be quite different in different parts of the world: in some regions, individual decision-making is preferred whilst in other nations or cultures the focus is upon group decision-making. Ultimately, it is the contention of this writer that different decision-making technologies will have an impact upon the design of information systems used to support decision-making in international businesses insofar as a system put in place for individual decision-making will focus more on information retrieval (for the individual executive) whilst a system for a group or collective decision-making approach will be fixated more on helping to connect people to one another.

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"As we all know, management decision-making styles may be quite different in different parts of the world: in some regions, individual decision-making is preferred whilst in other nations or cultures the focus is upon group decision-making. Ultimately, it is the contention of this writer that different decision-making technologies will have an impact upon the design of information systems used to support decision-making in international businesses insofar as a system put in place for individual decision-making will focus more on information retrieval (for the...)"

Tags:decision, making, information, gathering, styles