The function
Investor_DSS is a support system for investors, which enables decision making for location finding, working through the internet. It is based on a multi-criteria evaluation, through which investors implement a screening, allowing them to find a set of municipalities which satisfy their requirements for an optimal location.
From the users point of view the process proceeds according to the following steps:
- Registration of the user;
- Registration of the purpose of the session;
- Selection of dimensions and variables to be considered in the analysis;
- Definition of the profile of the evaluation, through the attribution of weights to the dimensions and variables;
- Presentation of results: 15 municipalities most adequate for location;
- Graphic presentation of the characteristics of the profiles of the first 5 municipalities;
- Presentation of the summary sheets of the five first municipalities;
- A complete report in pdf to download.
Users may access the module
Investor_DSS and consult previous analysis in a personal/corporate reserved space accessible by password.
More than 100 variables are available for the analyses, organised in the following seven dimensions:
- Population;
- Quality of Life;
- Employment and Unemployment;
- Economic activity;
- Services provided to companies;
- Accessibility and transport;
- Taxes and public investments.
The database used for the operation of the multi-criteria analyses is permanently updated and re-evaluated, but is restricted to those municipalities which are integrated in the space where-to-invest-in-portugal.com.
The access to the decision support system Investor_DSS is free of charge, but subjected to registration.