Proposing a DSS and its relevance for a university with satellite campuses: case study at university of education, Winneba-Ghana

Decision Support Systems (DSS) is an imperative modern-day issue for many establishments and is comparatively a new area in the jurisdiction of information technology. As DSS is a new area, little study has been done regarding the physiognomies of academic data and the intricacy of analyzing such data. The main objective of this paper was to study the existing system used by University of Education, Winneba which is a university with satellite campuses and possibly propose a new system. After the study a new system (DSS) has been proposed. The methodology used was, in order to better understand the problem at University of Education; initial literature review of the study was consideredfollowed by a holistic study of the existing system. Interviews were also conducted with twenty users selected by simple random sampling and who have been involved in the decision making process of the University. If the system proposed is to be accepted and implemented by the university used as the case study, they will now have a better source of information on which to base decision-making and the other major benefits of the proposed Decision Support System (DSS) can be listed as follows:, Retrieving the historical data is quick so users will save time, users can have access to data that are not included in their Information Systems in their satellite campus.