Decisional information systems (DIS), compared to traditional information systems, constitute today an essential support for decision-making in any enterprises taking into account the complex analysis (discovery requirements and analysis of the sources of data warehouses); to build and develop this DIS, to which many concepts and methods have been proposed. In this article, we made a study about these DIS developments methods; firstly, we presented a state of the art of the most used methods in recent years, Secondly, we made a comparative study based on the framework that was originally proposed for engineering systems and corroborated afterward its efficiency to understand various disciplines such as: engineering methods, engineering information systems, process engineering and requirements engineering.