FINAL ( Blog Post # 2 )

TOPIC: THE DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM
(DSS)Question # 3:

1. Describe or define DSS
2. Distinguish DSS from MIS.
3. Illustrate (give examples) how DSS can improve company's competitive advantage and organizational performance.

Answer:

1. Decision support system for me is a computerized support system to help decision makers to solve problems or to compile useful information from documents and other pertinent papers...it is also an application to analyze data so that the users can make a decissions more easily....

2. The difference between the DSS from MIS are DSS are just a suporters from anything that could be happen they are the one who designate to cure such things in terms of decission making while the MIS are the subset to all the internal controls covering all the applications of the people, documents, technology and etc...one of the procedures of MIS is solving costing products and a business wide strategy.

3. One of the samples of a good DSS improve a company's competetive advantage is knowledge management is a practical example of a DSS...it is being adapted by the companies to become more effecient and effective with their organizations...the need of this can be seen daily from issues in how to deal with the people...