Decision Support Q & A

What is an appropriate DSS deployment strategy?
by Dan Power
Editor, DSSResources.com

Decision support system (DSS) development often follows a sequence of awareness, plan, analysis, design, build, deploy, and operate. But DSS prototyping or agile development overlaps design, build, deploy and operate steps. Realistically, a specific DSS at some point should move from build to full-scale deployment or be abandoned. Therefore, developers must choose an appropriate company-specific, deployment strategy for a decision support application. The type of DSS, its scope, the company culture, and the magnitude of change should influence choice of a deployment strategy. How we "roll out", "go live" or "put in place" a new DSS impacts its use and success. What strategies are available?

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