What's New! at DSSResources.COM

The following major changes have been made to DSS Resources since January 2, 2001.

• 12/20/2001 Posted article by Peterson, D., "The Politics of Data Warehousing", DSSResources.COM, 12/20/2001. Check Articles On-Line.

• 12/14/2001 Posted case by Wasyluk, O. John, and Daniel Saaty, "Developing a Portfolio Approach to Capital Investment: A Case Study in Re-EngineeringResource Allocation at the U.S. Department of Veteran's Affairs", Expert Choice, Inc., 2001, URLDSSResources.COM/cases/dva.htm.

• 12/07/2001 Added translation capability from FreeTranslation.com to page footers.

• 11/18/2001 Posted case by Young, James R., Geoff Rabone, Scott Akenhead and Ed Gregr, HydroBasin: Relicensing Planning for Hydroelectric Watersheds, Facet Decision Making, 2000, URL DSSResources.COM/cases/hydrobasin.htm.

• 10/28/2001 Posted article by Elliot, T., "Enterprise Analytic Applications: A Guide to the Latest Developments", DSSResources.COM, 10/28/2001. Check Articles On-Line.

• 10/27/2001 Posted case by Alphablox Staff, "Pfizer uses Alphablox Web-based platform to create Sales Analysis Decision Support application", Alphablox, Inc., 2001, URL DSSResources.COM/cases/pfizer.htm.

• 10/21/2001 Updated DSS Vendor List.

• 10/03/2001 Posted article by Yager, S., "Top 10 Project Management Problems", DSSResources.COM, 10/03/2001.

• 09/09/2001 Updated and posted Document-Driven DSS page. Updated and posted DSS Roulette.

• 09/02/2001 Posted article by Rudyk, N., "Delivering Information Outreach to the Masses: A Critical Requirement of Today’s "Insight Economy"", DSSResources.COM, 09/02/2001.

• 09/01/2001 Posted case by Business Objects Staff, "Shell Delivers the New Face of Fuel Retailing with Business Objects", Business Objects, Inc., 2000, URL DSSResources.COM/cases/shell.htm.

• 08/26/2001 Updated Site Map.

• 08/25/2001 Added Collins, H., Corporate Portals, to the DSS Book Store.

• 08/19/2001 Added terms to Glossary.

• 08/19/2001 Reformatted Classic DSS Books pages and tables of contents.

• 08/16/2001 Updated Book Store.

• 08/15/2001 Moved Case Studies from prior months into Subscriber Zone, moved DSS Hyperbook tutorials and 8 additional tutorials to the Subscriber Zone.

• 08/12/2001 Archived DSS News and reindexed site and subscriber search.

• 07/23/2001 Launched a DSS Career Center in collaboration with techengine.com. Check for jobs.

• 07/17/2001 Posted case by MicroStrategy Staff, "Business Intelligence = $$$ for ShopKo Stores", MicroStrategy, Inc., July 2001, URL DSSResources.COM/cases/shopko.htm.
• 07/09/2001 Posted links to 6 articles from the 2001 Informing Science Conference e-Proceedings Informing Decision-Makers and Decision Support Systems track on the Articles On-line page, URL DSSResources.COM/papers/dssarticles.html.
• 06/17/2001 Posted case example by DataBeacon Staff, "Databeacon Goes Back to the Future in San Francisco", DataBeacon, Inc., Spring 2001, URL DSSResources.COM/cases/telephia.html.
• 05/25/2001 Created Partner/Reseller Information page for people interested in promoting the DSSResources.COM Subscriber Zone.
• 05/22/2001 Published case example by Palisade Staff, "Procter & Gamble Uses @RISK and PrecisionTree World-Wide", Palisade Corp., Spring 2001, URL DSSResources.COM/cases/procterandgamble.html.
• 05/19/2001 Published Bhargava, H., and D. J. Power. "Decision Support Systems and Web Technologies: A Status Report". Prepared for AMCIS 2001, Americas Conference on Information Systems, Boston, Massachusetts, August 3th - 5th, 2001, "Decision Support Systems" Mini Track. (URL http://dssresources.com/papers/dsstrackoverview.pdf).
• 05/05/2001 Published case example by DataBeacon Staff, "Pfizer integrates DataBeacon into Model Factory", DataBeacon, Inc., Spring 2001, URL DSSResources.COM/cases/pfizer.htm.
• 05/05/2001 Published case example by Nucleus Research Staff, "Return on Investment Profile: Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server", Nucleus Research, April 2001, URL DSSResources.COM/cases/raremedium.html.
• 04/30/2001 Published case example by arcplan Staff, "Bayer's unique planning wizard system cures budgeting headaches", arcplan, Inc., January 2000, URL DSSResources.COM/cases/bayer.htm.
• 04/28/2001 Published Lotito, J. "Concepts of Database Design and Management" Tutorial.
• 04/13/2001 Published case example by Comshare Staff, "BMW Manufacturing operation in South Carolina chose Comshare Decision as its business intelligence (BI) solution.", Comshare, Inc., January 2001, URL DSSResources.COM/cases/bmw.html.

• 03/21/2001 Posted Dan's Picks for Spring 2001 in the DSS Book Store.

• 03/16/2001 Published case example by Decisioneering Staff, "SunTrust 'Banks' on Crystal Ball for assessing the risk of commercial loans", Decisioneering, Inc., November 1998, URL DSSResources.COM/cases/suntrust.html.

• 03/11/2001 Created new feature called DSS Wisdom.

• 02/28/2001 Published case example by Lyons, T. "Maytag International Refines Data Distribution with DI-Diver", Dimensional Insight, Inc., February, 2001, URL DSSResources.COM/cases/maytaginternational.htm.

• 02/17/2001 Created DSS Related Conferences page.

• 02/11/2001 Updated and reformatted the DSS Glossary.

• 02/10/2001 Reformatted DSS Hyperbook index page.

• 02/08/2001 Posted Survey Research page on the For Researchers page.

• 02/08/2001 Posted Chapter 1 in HTML form on the DSS Hyperbook page.

• 02/04/2001 Posted Online Computing Definitions page.

• 02/04/2001 Posted an updated DSS Research Topics page.

• 02/04/2001 Redesigned the front page and created two new secondary pages - For Developers and For Researchers.

• 02/03/2001 Updated the Model-Driven DSS page.

• 02/02/2001 Posted Supporting Decision-Makers: An Expanded Framework tutorial.

• 02/01/2001 Updated Communications-Driven DSS page

• 01/20/2001 Posted HTML version of Chapter 2 "Gaining Competitive Advantage with Decision Support Systems". This is an experimental chapter that we are testing. The plan is to put all of the chapters in the subscriber zone in a similar HTML format. Chapter 2 is currently being revised and your comments on its content and format will be appreciated.

• 01/20/2001 Revised Ask Dan! format.

• 01/15/2001 Updated and posted the DSS Web Tour (version 4.0).

• 01/13/2001 Revised Top Panel to include Site Map.

• 01/13/2001 Created DSSResources.COM Site Map.

• 01/05/2001 Updated Journals/Newsgroups page.

• 01/02/2001 Posted Dan's Picks for Winter 2001 in the DSS Book Store.

• 01/02/2001 Rotated Guestbook, News, What's New, and did other changes associated with a new year. For Old What's New, see the 2000 What's New page or the 1996-1999 What's New page.