A brief review on Decision Support Systems and it´s applications

Decision Support Systems (DSS) have been built and investigated by Information Systems researchers and technologists for approximately 40 years. Beginning from the late 1960s with building model-driven DSS, this paper chronicled and explored the developments of DSS, theory developments in the 1970s, and the implementation of financial planning systems, spread sheet DSS and Group DSS in the early and mid 80s. Data warehouses, Executive Information Systems, OLAP and Business Intelligence evolved in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Finally, the exploration ended with knowledge-driven DSS and the implementation of Web-based DSS from the mid-1990s to now.