What is a Decision Support System?
A Decision Support System or DSS can be defined as a computer-based informational system that supports business or organizational decision-making. They are typically designed to help management, planning or operations make decisions in environments which may be rapidly changing and/or difficult to specify in advance.
Visual8 specializes in the use of computer simulation and modeling combined with detailed process analysis and optimization techniques to develop sophisticated, dynamic Decision Support Tools to help clients address their specific business challenges across a variety of industry sectors.
How can a Visual8 Decision Support System help me?
Traditional decision making tools like spreadsheets, decision trees, influence diagrams or decision maps typically work well when your business processes are simple and fairly static. However, they can often be laborious to set up or change and are largely ineffective when dealing with complex systems where there may be a great deal of process variability, large amounts of operational constraints or many inter-dependent steps.
At the core of every Visual8 Decision Support Systems is a custom model or simulation of your business processes, complete with all the inherent operational rules, variability, dependencies and constraints – in effect, a virtual replica of your real-world operations.
This foundation, combined with custom built user-interfaces, parameterized inputs, direct data import/export connectivity, and with detailed KPI reporting, allow you to easily manipulate key system inputs or data and immediately see the effect those changes will have.
Kroger required a model to investigate methods for efficiently handling customer check-outs at the front of its stores.
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Vale INCO wished to model converter aisles with the goal of increasing their daily production output.
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Xstrata needed to model mining processes in order to extend operations beyond their current levels.
Learn MoreThe Benefits of using Visual8 Decision Support Systems
- Faster, more accurate decision making
- Better adapt and respond to change