Abstract:
Developing a large-scale information system (IS)
can be a complicated and a challenging exercise.
Combined with the complexity of developing a
Decision Support System (DSS*) and the
complexity of developing Web-enabled systems,
developing a Web-enabled large-scale DSS
designed to serve multiple managers in different
business functions who might be distributed over a
large area can be a more challenging task than that
of developing the much more common two-tiered
client/server DSS that have evolved over the past
few years. In this paper, it is demonstrated that
extra efforts and a more systematic approach in
Web-enabled large-scale DSS development are
worthwhile, since such a system should incorporate
and benefit from the recently developed
technological techniques, including information
distribution and data exchange schemes. An
attempt is made to identify those characteristics of
DSS that require different treatment and attention
and some issues, which can have greater effect on
developing Web-enabled large-scale DSS, are presented.
