Managing Information Overload

Many ICT tools have been created to help business and homeowners keep track of their finances and stock, to find specific information for something they have made but don’t want to spend ages looking for it, to simulate experiences whether it is in games or for military purposes and some software is made to help business plan ahead in the future if problems occur.

Spreadsheets are used mainly by business but can also be used a homes so people can keep track of finances, business use this type of software to keep track of their finances but also to keep track of stock, customer address and many of things that business may need to keep in a table. This helps in decision making by showing people whether they should decide to save their money, order more stock and many other tings.

Simulation software is used to give a simulation of some real time events such as flying a plane or to train people in certain careers like computing and bomb disposal without people being hurt. This helps in decision making by making the superiors chose the best candidates for the jobs they are being chosen for.

Data mining tools are used to as a process of sorting through large amounts of information and choosing relevant information. This type of tool is mostly used by business intelligence organizations and financial analysts. This can help in decision making by finding specific information and choosing whether they need to keep it or not as this information could be past customers or bank details of present customers and they must decided whether it should be deleted.

Exception reporting tools are used to show the difference between the natural occurrence and the expected result so that so that advantages can be searched out from both expected results so that the company can gain further improvement. This helps in decision making by letting the company decide what they should do if one of the undesired results occur.