41) Web-based tools for videoconferencing and electronic meetings are the primary tools for GDSS.
42) During a GDSS meeting, the attendees control the use of GDSS tools.
43) Business informatics and analytics are products defined by technology vendors and consulting firms.
44) Businesses must deal with both structured and unstructured data from only one source, mobile devices.
45) The underlying foundation of business intelligence is a powerful mobile system that captures all the relevant data to operate the business.
46) Business analytics toolset is a set of hardware tools that are used to analyze data and produce reports, respond to questions posed by managers, and track the progress of the business using key indicators of performance.
47) MBS, DAS, and ESA deliver information and knowledge to different people and levels in the firm–operational employees, operational managers, middle managers, and senior executives.
48) Production reports are predefined reports based on industry-specific requirements.
49) Dashboards/scorecards are visual tools for presenting performance data defined by users.
50) Middle managers and analysts are much more likely to be immersed in the data and software, entering queries and slicing and dicing the data along different dimensions.
51) Operational employees will, along with customers and suppliers, be looking mostly at prepackaged reports.
52) Predictive analytics are being built into mainstream applications for everyday decision making by all types of employees, especially in finance and marketing.