Management information systems (MIS) including: decision support system (DSS) provide understandable amounts of management-level information that individual users might require – such as summaries from larger collections of data. When data is collected it usually consists of large quantities of simple information and needs further processing before it is usable. This type of processed information may typically be used by managers as an aid to be monitoring budgets, assessing sales targets or making business decisions. --BCS Glossary of Computing
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