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

CIO Business Intelligence

A DSS leverages a combination of raw data, documents, personal knowledge, and/or business models to help users make decisions. They generally leverage simple statistical and analytical tools, but Power notes that some OLAP systems that allow complex analysis of data may be classified as hybrid DSS systems. Document-driven DSS.

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What Is Embedded Analytics?

Jet Global

Have a Vision, But Build in Phases Building analytics into your application can be overwhelming as you foresee how far you must go to reach your vision. Modern Data Sources Painlessly connect with modern data such as streaming, search, big data, NoSQL, cloud, document-based sources. Predictive Analytics: If x, then y (e.g.,