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Management Support Systems

Notes Scalability
Data security

Task Compare and contrast internal data and external data.

Self Assessment

Fill in the blanks:
6. .................... data come mainly from the organization’s transaction processing system.
7. .................... data can include guidelines used by specific decision makers and assessments
of specific data and/or situations.
8. .................... is the process of capturing data from several sources, synthesizing them,
summarizing them, determining which of them are relevant, and organizing them,
resulting in their effective integration.
9. .................... is a catalog of all the data in a database or all the models in a model base.

4.3 Models Management for DSS

Model management is one of the most important areas and is widely recognized as a key
component of decision support systems. One of the prime tasks of model management is to
perform mod integration which consists of combining existing DSS models and components.
It involves tasks such as connecting models, formulating composite models from existing models,
collection of models an model reuse and analysis.

Did u know? Model integration, over the past two decades, has emerged as one of the most
widely researched topics in the field of MOD management.

Figure 4.4: Models Management

Models (Model Base)
Strategic, tactical, operational
Statical, financial, marketing, Model
management science, accounting, Directory
engineering etc.
Model building blocks

Model Base Management
Modeling commands: creation
Maintenance: update Model execution
Database interface integration, and
Modeling language command processor

Data Interface Knowledge-based
Management Management Management

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