| Existing systems | Dashboard | Decision support systems | expert systems | Data mining | Knowledge management |
| Data Extraction Time | Long | Very long | Very long | Long | Very long |
| Calculation time of the indicators | Very long | Very long | Very long | Very long | Very long |
| Time Generation of dashboards | Long | Very long | Very long | long | Very long |
| Relevance and hierarchy of indicators | Included in the formulas | Non-existent | Non-existent | Included in the formulas | Non-existent |
| Data forecasting | Semi-hand-held | Integrated | Integrated | Semi-hand-held | Integrated |
| Alerte incident | First level alert | Non-existent | Non-existent | Non-existent | Non-existent |
| indicator Presentations | Well organized | Acceptable | Acceptable | Acceptable | Acceptable |
| indicator Interpretations | Manual | Integrated | Integrated | Manual | Integrated |
| Flexibility | Very long to set up | Very long to set up | Very long to set up | Very long to set up | Very long to set up |