Major Types of Information Systems A typical organization has six information systems with each supporting a specific organizational level. These systems include transaction processing systems (TPS) at the operational level, office automation systems (OAS) and knowledge work systems (KWS) at the knowledge level, management information systems (MIS) and decision support Systems (DSS) at the management … Read more
Decision Support Systems (DSS) A decision support system is an interactive computer-based system that serves the decision making needs of managers. It provides managers with information that enables them to make both semi-structured and unstructured decisions. A DSS employs various analytical models to perform a low-level analysis of data and produce information. A manager can … Read more
What is Decision Support System? A decision support system (DSS) is an interactive computer-based information system that, like MIS also serves at the management level of an organization. However, in contrast to MIS (that processes data), it processes information to support the decision making process of managers. It provides middle managers with the information that … Read more
