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The 1960s saw the emergence of Electronic Data Processing or EDP systems. EDP systems are still available today and are simply ‘automation engines.’ That is EDP systems are used to automate routine operations of an organisation, focussing on accounting and transaction processing. For our purposes EDP systems are synonymous with On-Line Transaction Processing (OLTP) systems. We note, however, that the success of EDP/OLTP systems lead to an evolution in the use computerised systems, in contributing to the orderly and efficient running of the organisation. Since then the hardware and software technologies have gone through many generations of evolution. File management systems, database systems, relational databases, and on-line analytical processing represent different points in this historical sequence. They encapsulate the technologies used in storing and manipulating data and information in progressively better ways and in greater volumes. Today the use of information systems (IS), or in more common parlance, information technology (IT), in a management context, is the leading issues for the organisation. We focus mainly on IS which —in one way or another- were thought to make a valuable contribution to decision support, and certainly with IS in an organisational context.
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Koutsoukis, NS., Mitra, G. (2003). Information Systems for Decision Support. In: Decision Modelling and Information Systems. Operations Research/Computer Science Interfaces Series, vol 26. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-0505-1_3
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