Vanguards decision support system software is used by thousands of companies for enterprise decision analysis. The software makes it possible to apply decision analysis techniques throughout an organization to problems ranging from simple projects to enterprisewide strategic plans. The Vanguard Sys. is a comprehensive business solution for improving the quality, reliability, and speed of management decisions. It does this by helping collaborate with colleagues on important plans, analyze alternatives using state-of-the-art modeling and simulation techniques, automate routine decisions using expert system technology, and improve overall management effectiveness by adding structure to a normally chaotic process. Vanguards collaboration abilities go well beyond simple communication strategies like Web conferencing. Rather, Vanguard is based on principles of knowledge capture. The Vanguard Sys. can combine the knowledge captured by many individuals to create a Collective Intelligence that is useful for testing business plans and automating routine operations. Vanguard combines all of the most powerful and essential quantitative methods in management with features of spreadsheets, artificial intelligence tools, and math applications to produce an advanced business modeling system. Vanguard improves the speed, reliability, and quality of routine decisions by combining its business modeling capabilities with Expert System technology. Vanguard has the potential to transform business by improving management team decisions rather than simply analyzing operational data. Vanguard supports a wide variety of methods for integrating data and it can connect to virtually any business system, e.g. Support for Customizable Functions, etc. (i) Identify the main capabilities of the DSS software from the narrative. (ii) Why should DSS support data integration as mentioned ? (iii) The Vanguard Sys. has been dubbed also as a KMS and an Expert System. Why do you think a DSS should also be a KMS ? An Expert System