How can you use GIS decision support systems to improve your business decisions?
If you want to make better business decisions, you need to have reliable and relevant information. But how can you access, analyze, and visualize data that is spatially distributed, complex, and dynamic? One answer is to use GIS decision support systems (DSS).
GIS stands for geographic information system, a technology that integrates data, software, hardware, and methods to capture, store, manipulate, and display spatial data. GIS can help you understand patterns, trends, relationships, and impacts of various factors on your business operations, markets, customers, competitors, and environment.
DSS are interactive computer-based systems that help decision-makers use data and models to solve problems, explore alternatives, and evaluate outcomes. DSS can support different types of decisions, such as strategic, tactical, operational, and emergency. DSS can also incorporate various analytical tools, such as optimization, simulation, scenario analysis, and multicriteria evaluation.
GIS DSS combine the capabilities of GIS and DSS to provide you with a powerful and flexible platform for spatial decision-making. GIS DSS can help you: