Posted by Reilly Atkinson on June 02, 1999 at 12:39:08:

In Reply to: IT vs IS posted by John Hale on June 02, 1999 at 10:21:02:

Hello John;
Welcome to the world of buzzwords. IT & IS are euphemisms for the DP, or Data Procesing, of the '60s and '70s. In the business world, information became sexy in the 1970s -- many consulting firms used some varient of "we'll get the information from your data" in their marketing and sales efforts. The importance of information grew, through DSS, advanced forecasting techniques, through more and more computing power to do large scale factor analyses and detailed simulation models - the extraction of information (now called data mining) became quite successful. This extraction was virtually never done by DP staff. In more and more firms, data processing became Information something or other, merely for the cache, not for the reality. The name has changed, the basic job has not -- maintaining and transmitting data. Reilly Atkinson

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