Applied systems analysis
- a superficial, run-of-the-mill reporting system: stacks of numerical tables and charts with basic, primitive data -- hardly an appreciative support to making managerial decisions
- applied systems analysis designed system: synthetic indicators derived from these basic, primitive data -- presents to decision makers the analytic results, not the naked data
- in OMS a decision support system, these analytic indicators are presented in combined tables and charts for easy comparison benchmarking.