Decision Support System Application
Not what you're looking for?
Write a paper demonstrating the application of your chosen DSS to a specific problem or set of problems. Include the role of the following components of a DSS as they pertain to your system: -description of the situation, intended users, database, and model base.
Purchase this Solution
Solution Preview
Footwear - Decision Support System 1
Description of the situation 1
Data Warehouse - Database, and Model Base 2
Logical database design 3
Physical database design 4
Footwear - Decision Support System
A fictitious firm, Footwear manufactures footwear and sells through two channels:
 Directly to customers and
 Through resellers.
Description of the situation
Footwear's marketing executives (these are intended users) need to extract the following information from the company's aggregate business data:
 The five states reporting the highest increases in youth product category sales within the past year,
 Total footwear sales in Baltimore City within the past month by product family,
 The 50 cities with the highest number of unique customers, and
 One million customers who are most likely to buy the new Walk-on-Air shoe model.
To build a system that provides this decision support information, the system analysts needs to address and resolve three fundamental issues:
 What data to gather and how to conceptually model the data and manage its storage,
 How to analyze the data, and
 How to efficiently load data from several independent sources.
These issues correlate to a decision support system's three principal components (see, Figure 1):
 A data warehouse server,
 Online analytical processing and data mining tools, and
 Back-end tools for populating ...
Purchase this Solution
Free BrainMass Quizzes
Excel Introductory Quiz
This quiz tests your knowledge of basics of MS-Excel.
Word 2010: Tables
Have you never worked with Tables in Word 2010? Maybe it has been a while since you have used a Table in Word and you need to brush up on your skills. Several keywords and popular options are discussed as you go through this quiz.
Java loops
This quiz checks your knowledge of for and while loops in Java. For and while loops are essential building blocks for all Java programs. Having a solid understanding of these constructs is critical for success in programming Java.
Basic Networking Questions
This quiz consists of some basic networking questions.
Basic Computer Terms
We use many basic terms like bit, pixel in our usual conversations about computers. Are we aware of what these mean? This little quiz is an attempt towards discovering that.