Trends in Data Processing for Decision Support

The quality of decision-making process is affected by the quality of information used in the process. Trends in data processing for decision support show that business users need analytical applications which incorporate a variety of data analysis techniques incorporating task-specific knowledge, i.e. that are business task-oriented. Such business analytics applications must be vertically connected across the organization, their information is desired to be in a visually acceptable form, even through wireless devices. The analysis functions have to be integrated into the information system, and integrated into the action and result measurements.