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What are decision support systems? Sifting data for better business decisions

CIO Business Intelligence

Decision support systems definition A decision support system (DSS) is an interactive information system that analyzes large volumes of data for informing business decisions. A DSS leverages a combination of raw data, documents, personal knowledge, and/or business models to help users make decisions. Model-driven DSS.

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11 dark secrets of data management

CIO Business Intelligence

Text by itself doesn’t have much structure to begin with, but when you’ve got a pile of text written by hundreds or thousands of employees over dozens of years, then whatever structure there is might be even weaker. Even structured data is often unstructured.

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Quantitative and Qualitative Data: A Vital Combination

Sisense

Most commonly, we think of data as numbers that show information such as sales figures, marketing data, payroll totals, financial statistics, and other data that can be counted and measured objectively. This is quantitative data. It’s “hard,” structured data that answers questions such as “how many?”

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How to Streamline Yardi Financial Reporting

Jet Global

In a quest to gain better access to information about their business, many real estate managers have sought out general-purpose business intelligence products like Microsoft Power BI or Tableau. That’s because modern BI tools were not designed to work with the unique challenges of finance data.