When it comes to develop a Decision Support System that must enhance nowadays Business Intelligence concepts and reporting facilities, the job could be easier if not trying to "reinvent the wheel'. In order to do so, this paper actually gives some practical examples of how to use a simple...

Nowadays when many technical acronymic words with the radical "system" invade the theory and practice of information systems is essential not to let ourselves tricked by their fashionable and tasteful appearance and think of what they really are. The main purpose of this paper is a theoretical...

Historically speaking, BI and GIS have followed different demands as development and also as implementation. But today, when a customer requests integrated applications expanding throughout the organization, BI and GIS application must work together. In order to facilitate this, standards and...

The decision support applications available on today market use to combine the decision analysis of historical databased on On-Line Analytical Processing (OLAP) products or spreadsheet pivot tables with some new reporting facilities as alerts or key performance indicators available in portal...

Combining some examples with the recognized purpose of both data visualization and business intelligence the paper tries to emphasize: advantages, lacks, limits, actualities, and potential trends in this field. Most of the figures are the result of practical tests, except the last one which is a...

The paper tries to identify some causes and implications of the web phenomena into the decision making field. It also includes examples in order to better justify the ideas. The literature and the practice are very rich in examples of Decision Support Systems (DSS) and Business Intelligence...

The development of web applications and the recent evolution of mobile devices and infrastructure have changed dramatically the course of the decision making field. although the DSS (Decision Support Systems) and BI (Business Intelligence) products are influenced by these two factors above, they...

Generally speaking, the Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) have had defining contributions in many fields (e.g. economic, social, science and culture).From the didactic and scientific activities of the candidate it also results a certain interdisciplinary effort evidenced by...

In order to practice on decision making with students in simulation rooms we did some tests and we have implemented a working scenario considering some conditions imposed by the space, software particularities and so on. The bottom line is that starting both from existing theory and pragmatic...

Beyond knowledge experience always stays. But experience frequently resides in historical data combined into information, theorems, decisional models, ideas and many other invisible intellectual assets. The way we mange this could be the essence of the knowledge management. As said, decisional...