Introduction to Enterprise Decision Support Systems
An Enterprise Decision Support System (Enterprise DSS) is an end-to-end data processing system that takes operational and transactional data generated by a business organization and converts them into actionable insights. Every Enterprise DSS has a few standard components, such as data sources, data sinks, and data processing frameworks. An Enterprise DSS takes raw transactional data as its input and converts this into actionable insights such as operational reports, enterprise performance dashboards, and predictive analytics.
The following diagram illustrates the components of a typical Enterprise DSS in a big data context:
Figure 2.1 – The Enterprise DSS architecture
A big data analytics system is also an Enterprise DSS operating at much larger Volumes, with more Variety of data, and arriving at much faster Velocity. Being a type of Enterprise DSS, a big data analytics system has components that...
