Decision Support System

A decision support system (DSS) is a system that quickly provides relevant facts to help business people to make decisions. It includes a set of software tools that helps decision makers generate the information they need. DSS tools may vary from company to company, but often they include software that helps people obtain needed information from a database, simulation software that lets employees create computers `models' to see that company performance might be under certain conditions, and presentation software that lets them create graphs of data. A common type of DSS software is a spreadsheet, which we will discuss next.