Decision Support (DS) is a customer service unit with a focus on data warehousing, business intelligence, and information management. Decision Support is part of the University Office for Planning and Budgeting. Its responsibilities include managing the Universityâ€(tm)s Data Warehouse, providing data access, helping staff create their own reports, and providing data education and general information about University data and reporting. Decision Support is the unit that manages Business Objects and EDDIE, one of the servers that delivers Standard Reports to users. See About Decision Support for more information. ()
Decision makers through the university need access to useful data resources to assist in their responsibilities. The decision support environment is one in which individuals can "point and click" and not have to know programming languages to gather information from institutional data structures and several pre-processed data sets.
The act of making strategic and tactical decisions by drawing inferences from past, existing and projected states (as compared to making objective decisions such as inventory replenishment) The environment which supports making the above-described decisions (e.g., data warehouses, ad hoc query user interface)
A class of database applications that do complex queries over large collections of data. The TPC-H benchmark is intended to measure performance by simulating a decision support application.
Systems designed to support the complex analytic analysis required to discover business trends. The information retrieved from these systems allows manager to make business decisions based on timely and accurate analysis of business trends. See also Business Intelligence.
Data access targeted to provide the information needed by business decision makers. Examples include pricing, purchasing, human resources, management, manufacturing, etc.
Business analytics presented in a format appropriate for use by executives in making decisions. Also called a decision support system
A server that holds a copy of the University's financial data. The data is available for viewing, reporting and analysis. The web based system used to run queries of the university's financial data.
Describes a class of systems or solutions that reveal meaningful trends and patterns within an enterprise's raw data, allowing people to make ad hoc inquiries for information they need to make more accurate decisions. Data mining and data warehousing are examples of decision-support.