D-Sight is a company that specializes in

decision support software A decision support system (DSS) is an information system that supports business or organizational decision-making activities. DSSs serve the management, operations and planning levels of an organization (usually mid and higher management) and ...

and associated services in the domains of project prioritization, supplier selection and collaborative decision-making. It was founded in 2010 as a spin-off from the

Université Libre de Bruxelles The (French language, French, ; lit. Free University of Brussels; abbreviated ULB) is a French-speaking research university in Brussels, Belgium. It has three campuses: the ''Solbosch'' campus (in the City of Brussels and Ixelles), the ''Plain ...

(ULB). Their headquarters are located in

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Software products

D-Sight has developed different software products that all aim at supporting different complex decision-making processes. All products are distributed under the model of

software as a service Software as a service (SaaS ) is a cloud computing service model where the provider offers use of application software to a client and manages all needed physical and software resources. SaaS is usually accessed via a web application. Unlike o ...

. The products are used in a wide variety of industries such as energy and natural resources, chemical and pharmaceutical, NGO and public, etc.

D-Sight Portfolio

D-Sight Portfolio is a

Project Portfolio Management Project portfolio management (PPM) is the centralized management of the processes, methods, and technologies used by project managers and project management offices (PMOs) to analyze and collectively manage current or proposed projects based on n ...

(PPM) platform focused around the early stage decision-making. It allows users to: * Collect and centralize data for project requests and build the business case * Prioritize project proposals and evaluate the ranking * Allocate resources to those proposals that add the most value to the organization, thereby optimizing the project portfolio

D-Sight Sourcing

D-Sight Sourcing is a

strategic sourcing Strategic sourcing is the process of developing channels of supply at the lowest total cost, not just the lowest purchase price. It expands upon traditional organisational purchasing activities to embrace all activities within the procurement cyc ...

platform to standardize and justify the supplier selection process.

D-Sight CDM

D-Sight Collaborative Decision-Making (CDM) is a

decision-making software Decision-making software (DM software) is software for computer applications that help individuals and organisations make choices and take decisions, typically by ranking, prioritizing or choosing from a number of options. An early example of DM s ...

that offers a structured approach to data-based group decisions.

Methodology

The methodology used in these platforms is a

multi-criteria decision analysis Multiple-criteria decision-making (MCDM) or multiple-criteria decision analysis (MCDA) is a sub-discipline of operations research that explicitly evaluates multiple conflicting criteria in decision making (both in daily life and in settings ...

(MCDA). Rather than looking at one single determinant to make decisions, MCDA methods consider multiple factors. They integrate both quantitative and qualitative information, and allow to make informed rather than purely intuitive decisions. D-Sight's software products implement more specifically the Preference Ranking Organization Method for Enrichment Evaluation (PROMETHEE) and geometrical analysis for interactive decision aid (GAIA), multi-attribute utility theory (MAUT) and

analytic hierarchy process In the theory of decision making, the analytic hierarchy process (AHP), also analytical hierarchy process, is a structured technique for organizing and analyzing MCDA, complex decisions, based on mathematics and psychology. It was developed by ...

(AHP).

References

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