CIS3345:
Management Information Systems

Spring, 2015

Chapter 10 References
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Site: http://www.cs.cf.ac.uk/courses/bscis/whydegree.html
  • This site offers (very Briefly) some of the reasons why information systems are important and Why You Should Study a Subject like Information Systems.
Site: http://www.coba.usf.edu/departments/isds/grads/hungerford/gen_sys_theory.html
  • General Systems Theory
    These are some General Systems Theory notes from Bruce C. Hungerford's class at The University of South Florida. They are in outline form and apparently correspond to his lecture. A nice overview: They ask some basic questions and then provide the answer (Submitted by P. Kirs)
Site: http://science.kennesaw.edu/~mguimara/3600/ch1.ppt
  • Introductory Systems Analysis Concepts
    The link offers lecture slides prepared for the text Systems Analysis and Design by Dennis, Wixom, and Tegardem by the Publisher (John Wiley and Sons). The topics generally correspond to those covered in this class
Site: http://dssresources.com/
  •  Talks about some security measures
  • It gives the basic information for DSS (Decision Support System)
  • This page offers the basics when it comes to Decision Support Systems, written as a definition for those who still need some explanation.
  • This is a great website which provides a throuogh definition of Decision Support Systems. It begins by discussing how decision support systems evolved and how they were used. It later goes on to discuss how it was research throuoghly for many years, and it ends by discussing how advanced it has become in more recent times.
Site: http://www.computerworld.com/softwaretopics/software/apps/story/0,10801,72327,00.html
  •  Includes extra information and helpful links
Site: http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/505540/description#description
  •  Decision Support Systems tells you the contributions on the concepts and operational basis for DSSs, techniques for implementing and evaluating DSSs, DSS experiences, and related studies.
  • this website defines decision support systems and helps you understand decision support system
Site: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_intelligence
  •  Interesting site. this site even discusses history and the future on BI.
  • Business Intelligence is based on: decision support systems, knowledge management systems, online analytical processing, data mining and management information systems. From this website we can see that Business Intelligence refers to technologies, applications and practices, integration, analysis, and presentation of business information.
  • This site explains what BI is and a brief history. It also gives predictions of where business intelligence will be in 2012.
  • The source provides information on business intelligence, its history and some predictions of future trends.
Site: http://www.uky.edu/BusinessEconomics/dssakba/
  •  I like because it helps you understand what decision support systems mean and can do, and also offers you related sites, in the news info, and comes from the University of Kentucky which gives a different perspective.
Site: http://www.seattlerobotics.org/encoder/mar98/fuz/flindex.html
  •  This website is a tutorial on fuzzy logic.
Site: http://www.webdevelopersjournal.com/columns/ecommerce1.html
  • This was great

Site:  http://dssresources.com/
  •  this website helps people who are interested in learning about how to use information technologies and software to improve decision making. The target audience is IS professionals, IS students, managers interested in MIS and academics in MIS/DSS. It was made because Decision Support technology is evolving very rapidly. IT managers, IS students and academics face a difficult challenge to stay up-to-date about these changes and to make good, informed choices about building and maintaining systems to support decision making in organizations.
Site:  http://www.dssresources.com/
  •  This site presents itself as being the premier knowledge repository about computerized systems that support decision making.
  • This site provides good information. Detailed about computerized systems taht support decision making. It is easy to read and understand.
Site:   http://www.iimb.ernet.in/~rbandi/mist/topic2.pdf
  •  its a basically another set of power point slides that illustrate the decision making process
Site:   http://www.bizjournals.com/tampabay/stories/2008/06/23/daily9.html?ana=from_rss
  •  Interesting article about Verizon Wireless Company and its operations about data mining.
Site:  http://www.gis.com/
  •  It talks all and exactly about GIS
Site:   http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/Xplore/login.jsp?url=/iel5/4278534/4278535/04278573.pdf?isnumber=4278535&prod=CNF&arnumber=4278573&arSt=30&ared=30&arAuthor=%2C+Zhiyong%3B+Tran%2C+Thomas
  •  This website explains how intelligent agent-based framework allows buyers and sellers to perform business from remote locations. The advantage to this feature is that it is convenient for traders to conduct business at any time from any location. Second it takes a minimun amount of time for the trader to find and negotiate with other traders. Third, it minimizes connection time. Finally, it provides a high design scalability.
Site:   http://www.cognos.com/online-analytical-processing.html
  •  This technology helps the daily decission making of business people,the on-line analytical processing system evaluates business dimensions like product or channel performance against factors such as regions, customers and timeframes.
Site:  http://www.microsoft.com/bi/
  •  Microsoft provides a variety of services, solutions, and products to support campanies' areas of Business Intellilgence.
Site:  http://www.gdrc.org/decision/dss-types.html
  •  talks about what a decision support system is and goes into detail about what types of decision suport system analysis there are.
Site:  http://www.gis.com/
  •  GIS can integrate and relate any data with a spatial component, regardless of the source of the data. For example, you can combine the location of mobile workers, located in real-time by GPS devices, in relation to customers' homes, located by address and derived from your customer database.
Site:  http://www.anderson.ucla.edu/faculty/jason.frand/teacher/technologies/palace/datamining.htm
  •  Provides thorough description of what data mining is, how it works, examples, etc. I liked the context of the examples it listed
Site:   http://www.informationbuilders.com/decision-support-systems-dss.html
  •  A properly designed DSS is an interactive software-based system intended to help decision makers compile useful information from raw data, documents, personal knowledge, and/or business models to identify and solve problems and make decisions.
  • This site clearly defines DSS and introduces: WebFocus Reporting, iWay software professional services, and packages. Additionally, it provides readers with a Glossary of Related Terms.
  • This website/company is to help organizations access all of their information and deliver it to anyone who needs it. Decision Support Systems (DSS) are a specific class of computerized information system that supports business and organizational decision-making activities.
  • This website gives a very good explanation of what decision support systems are and what they do.
  • The website i have chosen gives a short summary about what Decision Support Systems are about and what exactly they do. It also goes on to say what can be included in a decision support system.
  • This website is a good website, and gives a brief description of what a DSS is, and gives a few simple examples of what kind of information on might gather.
  • this website provides an in depth review of exactly what a decision support system is and how it works.
  • Has a good detailed definition of decision support system
  • I really didn't find this website very helpful, there was too many glossary items and not enough information.
  • Decision Support Systems (DSS) are a specific class of computerized information system that supports business and organizational decision-making activities.
Site:  http://www.pkirs.utep.edu/cis3345/submission%20forms/References/Chapter%2010.htm
  •  detailed discription on unstructured decision models found here
Site:   http://www.statsoft.com/textbook/stdatmin.html
  •  Data Mining Techniques
  • Defines what data mining is and what type of techniques can be used.
Site:  http://www.iorg.com/papers/knowledge.html
  •  Great article that helps explain that the intranet is not only a powerful communication medium but also a knowledge base.
Site:   http://www.austinlinks.com/Fuzzy/basics.html
  •  Fuzzy Logic is a departure from classical two-valued sets and logic, that uses "soft" linguistic (e.g. large, hot, tall) system variables and a continuous range of truth values in the interval [0,1], rather than strict binary (True or False) decisions and assignments.
Site:  http://dssinformatics.com/
  •  this is the home page to a website that describes how this application is used in different work areas
Site:  http://www.sos.state.tx.us/corp/businessstructure.shtml
  •  The information provided in this website explaing generally, how businesses are created and operated in different forms. It helps you see the difference between ways to select a business structure
Site:  http://www.bilawchuk.com/mark/history.html
  •  This webside explain all about virtual reality what i think is a very interestic topic.
Site:  http://www.informationweek.com/news/management/interviews/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=210300376
  •  This site talks about how robotics are set to impact our lives over the next 25 years and how they have already grown so much in just a short six year span.
Site:  http://searchdatamanagement.techtarget.com/sDefinition/0,,sid91_gci214137,00.html
  •  Very good site. Lots of info on things besides OLAP. Very IT savy. Will use it again!
Site:   http://www.tech-faq.com/decision-support-system.shtml
  •  It introduce a little bit of definitiations for support systems
  • This site is very informative. It gives a thorough description of what a decision support system is. It also goes in depth about different DDs models and what they do.
  • explain what is decision support system and actually is the same that we saw in class.
  • Very informative. This article goes into great detail on how this system is used everyday in the operating activities of a business in order to analyze data or sales. It uses text documents, spreadsheets and databases in order to come up with solutions.
  • Brief overview of DSS.
  • easy to navigate..long and detailed..
Site:  http://www.inforouter.com/Knowledge_Management.asp
  •  Knowledge management is the explicit management of vital knowledge and information possessed by individuals so that it is effectively shared and used by others in the organization. Through the effective sharing of corporate intellectual capital, Organizational Knowledge must be efficiently transformed into business intelligence.
Site:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decision_Support_Systems
  •  Decision support systems constitute a class of computer-based information systems including knowledge-based systems that support decision-making activities.
  • Decision support systems constitute a class of computer-based information systems including knowledge-based systems that support decision-making activities.This page contains basically all information required about the history, architecture, regulations, benefits, classifying, etc for dss and it is a really good source to keep in mind.
  • This website gives the reader a very quick definition of what Decision Support Systems is, at the very beginning. Then it follows by also giving a brief of its history, about different classifications of taxonomies, architecture, development frameworks, applications and fanilly gives a list of the benefits of DSS. Overall, i though this website was kind of interesting however, i support the idea that the website needs some modifications as it is suggested by the page.
  • A specific class of computerized information systems that supports business and organizational decision-making activities. A properly-designed DSS is an interactive software-based system intended to help decision makers compile useful information from raw data, documents, personal knowledge, and/or business models to identify and solve problems and make decisions.
  • Gives the history and definition in depth of Decision Support Systems.
Site:  http://dssresources.com/history/dsshistory.html
  •  I was nice and organized and easy to find what kind of information you needed. It was packed with detail and history for decision support systems. Although it dragged on a bit, it still was a very helpful site.
  • The study of decision support systems is an applied and uses knowledge and especially theory from other disciplines. This document traces decision support applications and research studies related to model and data-oriented systems, management expert systems, multidimensional data analysis, query and reporting tools. Knowledge-driven DSS can suggest or recommend actions to managers. This article was a good introduction to what is to come in the future. Overall this could be used to better understand what Decision Support Systems is.
Site:  http://www.all-bi.com/whatisbi.html
  •  This article talks about the importance of Business Intelligence for decision making in the business world. The information on this site pretty much coincides with the information that was presented to us in class. It is a very informative article.
Site:  http://articles.latimes.com/2008/jul/09/business/fi-google9
  •  Google introduced Google Lively which allows user to create themselves in a virtual world.
Site:  http://www.articlesbase.com/management-articles/scope-of-artificial-intelligence-in-business-328608.html
  •  Webpage contains information about the definition, importance, applications, advantages, etc of artificial intelligence in business. A little long article but valuable information.
Site:  http://www.cmis.csiro.au/bi/what-is-BI.htm
  •  Very short and not too descriptive. Brief enough to give an understandable definition of business intelligence.
Site:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_mining
  •  I liked this page because it the overview of what data mining is and concerns surrounding it.
Site:  http://www.kmworld.com/Articles/Editorial/Feature/Decision-support-systems-prove-vital-to-healthcare-19133.aspx
  •  This Article talks about how Decision Support Systems have helped hospitals to determine more efficiently what drug or treatment to diagnose for a certain patient. ***** Five Stars. Short, accurate and entertaining.
Site:  http://www.pitt.edu/~druzdzel/abstracts/dss.html
  •  "This is an encyclopedia article providing a view of the field of decision support systems"
Site:  http://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/whatisai/
  •  good article. Clear overview of what AI means now and the implications for the future!
Site:  http://library.thinkquest.org/2705/
  •  Very good website! It has different subheadings regarding artificial intelligence; from the simple definition to the different applications and interviews with experts
Site:  http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/505540/description#description
  •  This site talks about the Decision support systems and how it works
Site:  http://www.bestpricecomputers.co.uk/glossary/management-information-system.htm
  •  This site provides a good explanation of management information systems.
Site:  http://www.financialexpress.com/news/Artificial-Intelligence-For-Business-Apps-Is-Back-With-A-Bang!/85673/
  •  intresting, long but a good read
Site:  http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/741692/data-driven-decision-support-system
  •  It gives you the primery objective of the decision Support system
Site:  http://www.albionresearch.com/data_mining/market_basket.php
  •  Introduces Market Basket Analysis as a modeling tool and how it is used to increase revenues for businesses. Clear, concise website.
Site:  http://egsc.usgs.gov/isb/pubs/gis_poster/
  •  http://egsc.usgs.gov/isb/pubs/gis_poster/
Site:   http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/logic-fuzzy/
  •  Provides a detailed history of fuzzy logic, including information on fuzzy connectives.
Site:  http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/12/081221215537.htm
  •  Artificial Intelligence; Scientists try to build a computer than can learn from experience
Site:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YcqvJI8J6Lc
  •  This is a short youtube video about 1 min 30 seconds that talks about nanotechnology and the future of computers.
Site:  http://www.gis.com/whatisgis/index.html
  •  Site gives a good defnition of what GIS is and gives the three views of a GIS.
  • It explains what Geographical Information and what it allows to do.
  • Describes what geographic information system is.
Site:  http://www.ggobi.org/
  •  this website talks about only one visualization system. It is visualization for high-dimensional data. it talks about its features and who is using this visualization system.
Site:  http://www.elsevierscitech.com/pdfs/CFP_DSS_MCDM_Shi.pdf
  •  This web page explain the main resources that a DSS need in order to have the most reliable information for desicion making. For example, DSS uses knowledge and theory from diverse areas such as database research, artificial intelligence, decision theory, economics, cognitive science, management science, mathematical modeling, and others.
Site:  http://www.tech-faq.com/decision-support-system.shtml
  •  This website thorough defines what a decision support system is and shows how it is used most effectively in businesses today
Site:  http://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/whatisai/node1.html
  •  I found this website to have a bit more information then we would need to understand for this class, but none the less I the site did give some good insight to what AI is. I found the question and answer section most intresting and useful for this class. Gives you a basic understanding about the topic.
Site:  http://www.ask.com/bar?q=Benefits+of+Business+Intelligence&page=1&qsrc=6&ab=5&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.cmis.csiro.au%2Fbi%2Fwhat-is-BI.htm
  •  Interesting information and diagram on the different types of business intelligence. Helpful and easy to read.
Site:   http://www.forbes.com/business/
  •  Update the information you can provide as an IT tech or just as a business-person in general with this website. It provides top-quality research and excellent information about current events.
Site:  http://www.research.att.com/areas/stat/xgobi/
  •  This website goes through a data visualization system xgobi. Pretty interesting.
Site:  http://www.fra.cas.psu.edu/expsys.htm
  •  what is expert system and what it can do
Site:  http://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~nd/surprise_96/journal/vol4/cs11/report.html
  •  This report is an introduction to Artificial Neural Networks
Site:  http://www.informavores.com/index.html
  •  Informavores is a desicion support system software that helps service providors and their clients make decisions more efficiently and a quicker process. This also helps bring down the costs of the business and satisfy the customers more!
Site:   http://sci-fi.lovetoknow.com/wiki/Types_of_Robots
  •  This site explians the different types of robots that exist in the wolrd and where they are used. Cool stuff!
Site:   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Market_basket_analysis
  •  Has the definition and examples of market basket analysis.
Site:   http://www.microstrategy.com/OLAP/
  •  This site defines Online Analytical Processing (OLAP) Systems for Decision Support, and it also talks about two types of olaps, rolap and molap
Site:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_information_system
  •  This site talks about the definition, the history, the components and applications of EIS
Site:  http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=72327
  •  A small article discussing different points of views regarding DSS.
Site:  www.iep.utm.edu/a/art-inte.htm
  •  I find it so fascinating and would love to be involved in the whole process. Would be nice if there was a class here at Utep specifically on Artifical Intelligence.
Site:  http://www.nd.com/neurosolutions/products/ns/whatisNN.html
  •  "A neural network is a powerful data modeling tool that is able to capture and represent complex input/output relationships. The motivation for the development of neural network technology stemmed from the desire to develop an artificial system that could perform "intelligent" tasks similar to those performed by the human brain." This webpage ilustrates the different models that represent neural network"
Site:  http://www.seattlerobotics.org/encoder/mar98/fuz/flindex.html
  •  This website provides a broad explanation of what fuzzy logic system is and how is used today . Fuzzy logic is a controlling system that aids other systems to solve problems. This article provides a reinforcement of what fuzzy logic means and how many companies use this system in the day to day operations.
Site:  http://www.cs.washington.edu/ai/
  •  Has loads of information about AI.
Site:  http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2007/08/02/data-visualization-modern-approaches/
  •  This website talks all about data vizualization and how it can be used in the business world. it shows all types of data visualization
Site:  http://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/whatisai/whatisai.html
  •  An educational explanation of artificial intelligence.
Site:  http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/841/description#description
  •  Gives good example of what neural networks are in real life
Site:  http://ag.arizona.edu/AREC/cull/culling.html
  •  This website displays quick refences to the different kinds of DS systems and tells you what they are all about. It also gives you information needed to generate the DSS and gives you prices and seasons for downloading systems.
Site:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knowledge_Management_System
  •  Knowledge Management System (KM System) refers to a (generally IT based) system for managing knowledge in organizations, supporting creation, capture, storage and dissemination of information. It can comprise a part (neither necessary or sufficient) of a Knowledge Management initiative.
  • On thi site you can find the information about Knowledge Management Systems(Knowledge Management System (KM System) refers to a (generally IT based) system for managing knowledge in organizations, supporting creation, capture, storage and dissemination of information. It can comprise a part (neither necessary or sufficient) of a Knowledge Management initiative.)
Site:  http://encyclopedia2.thefreedictionary.com/Neural+network
  •  Neural networks are good at providing very fast, very close approximations of the correct answer.
Site:  http://dssresources.com/faq/index.php?action=artikel&id=114
  •  This website provides a well overview of various examples of decision support systems for example: communication-driven, data-driven, document- driven and more. It also provides basic information on what a DSS is and how to build one.
Site:  http://cati.csufresno.edu/upda/95/winter/story1.html
  •  the article explains how technology continues to impliment the way our brain works to technology
Site:  http://www.information-drivers.com/market_basket_analysis.php
  •  This is a great website that describes market-basket analysis. It provides its definition, gives some examples, and explains how to implement the market-basket analysis.
Site:  http://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~nd/surprise_96/journal/vol4/cs11/report.html#Introduction%20to%20neural%20networks
  •  Gives a discription of nueral networks and some background on them.
Site:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_intelligence
  •  The site gives information regaurding artificial intelligence and related topics. It also provides links for further information.
Site:   http://library.thinkquest.org/2705/history.html
  •  This site gives a history of artificial intelligence and a detailed time line.
Site:  http://www.wtec.org/loyola/kb/c1_s1.htm
  •  This website is very interesting, because it let us know about the expert systems, knowledge engineering and about some applications of the expert systems. This website is very complete regarding expert systems.
Site:  http://www.businessintelligence.com/
  •  It is a software that uses managers to make a business inteligence
Site:  http://www.aaai.org/AITopics/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/AITopics/ExpertSystems
  •  good website
Site:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_Support_Systems
  •  this article explains the defintion of business support systems also known as BSS which are components of a telephone operator uses to run it business operations to consumers. They cover four main areas Product Management, Customer Management ,Revenue Management, and Order Management 
Site:  http://www.asis.org/Bulletin/Feb-95/sawyer.html
  •  This is interesting for pursuing a career in the area.
Site:  http://www.gis.com/whatisgis/index.html
  •  This site is the GIS.com so we know that data is valid. It explains what the GIS is and offers services and careers in the GIS area
Site:  http://www.sas.com/technologies/bi/
  •  a very useful software that gives you the information when you need it, in the format you need. By integrating data from across your enterprise and delivering self-service reporting and analysis
Site:  http://en.citizendium.org/wiki/Formal_fuzzy_logic
  •  This website goes in dept to fuzzy logic. The different definitions and approaches by different authors and institutions
Site:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neural_network
  •  This site provides an excellent understanding of Neural network and gives references for furthur studying.
Site:   http://www.bit.vt.edu/academics/dss_index.html
  •  Gives a brief definition of DSS, and explains the differences with IS and MIS. Explains the importance of this classification for future graduates and the benefits and opportunities available if opting to take this route. It puts things in perspective when you think about employment.
Site:  http://www.learnthat.com/define/view.asp?id=6594
  •  This site just provides a drawn out definition. There is nothing else but that, not that great of a site
Site:  http://www.occ.treas.gov/handbook/mis.pdf
  •  This site goes into detail and explains how management information systems works. Easy to understand and follow through
Site:  http://www.bestpricecomputers.co.uk/glossary/management-information-system.htm
  •  Describes Management Information Systems and management by objectives.
Site:  http://www.nww.usace.army.mil/gis/definition.htm
  •  It provides several different definitions about GIS, and then provides a general more simple definition of GIS
Site:  http://it.toolbox.com/wiki/index.php/Market_Basket_Analysis
  •  It helps you understand how management refers to MBA to determine what products to sell more of
Site:  http://searchdatamanagement.techtarget.com/sDefinition/0,,sid91_gci213571,00.html
  •  its a good page because it is complete in information but it is a little too many links which makes it a bit confusing.
Site:  http://www.albionresearch.com/data_mining/market_basket.php
  •  it provides with a full defintion and how the market basket is used and how you can use it short put knowledgable
Site:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OLAP
  •  This is a goo web page to find out everything there is to know about Online Analytical Processing. It details information about the (OLAP) concepts, its Multidimensional databases, aggregations, types of OLAP, APIs and query languages and Products.
Site:  http://www.artificialintelligence.nu/
  •  Includes a very detailed analysis of this concept.
Site:  http://www.state.gov/misc/13864.htm
  •  This website gives you the official guidelines which determine the type of information quality given to the public on different subjects.
Site:   http://searchdatamanagement.techtarget.com/sDefinition/0,,sid91_gci213571,00.html
  •  Easy to read and good definitions.
Site:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_quality
  •  In this site information quality is defined as the fitness for use of the information provided.
Site:  http://searchcio.techtarget.com/sDefinition/0,,sid182_gci213888,00.html
  •  Provides a brief definition of decision support systems and their use.
Site:  http://www.fico.com/Landing/Google_Adwords/decision-management.html?cm_mmc=AdWords_Relaunch-_-S-Decision_Management+-+S-Decision_Support_Systems-_-Exact+match+search+4070138823-_-decision%20support%20system%7C-%7C100000000000000002569&cm_guid=1-_-100000000000000002569-_-4070138823
  •  How To gain agility and reduce risk, companies are turning to Decision Management and business rules management solutions, especially during this radically different and rapidly changing economic environment.
Site:   http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B6V8S-44W42S3-4&_user=108453&_rdoc=1&_fmt=&_orig=search&_sort=d&view=c&_acct=C000059716&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=108453&md5=273a645b02a7b3ad957d8686a7123430
  •  Like the title says this articles reviews the past and present of decision support technology in the world today.
Site:  http://www.nchv.org/docs/Organization%20Planning.8.03.pdf
  •  I really like this webpage because it is very organized and simple to understand.
Site:  http://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/whatisai/
  •  AI put in simple terms
Site:  http://www.albionresearch.com/data_mining/market_basket.php
  •  what market basket analysis is and how it is used
Site:  http://marketing.metricstream.com/metricstream/quality_systems.jsp?channel=Google&camp=QMS_Quality_Management_System&adgroup=Quality_Information&adkey=1&keyword=Quality%20Information&s_kwcid=quality%20information|2543869001&gclid=CKequKTD3poCFRlcagoduz4S0A
  •  Nowadays many companies are not fully developed because of their problems with communication. Metric Stream teaches companies how to improve the quality of the communication within the company.
Site:  http://www.worldscinet.com/ijitdm/
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