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'''Data processing''' is any [[computer]] [[process]] that converts [[data]] into [[information]]. The processing is usually assumed to be automated and running on an a [[mainframe]], [[minicomputer]], [[microcomputer]], or [[personal computer]]. Because data are most useful to human beings when well-presented collectively as information that informs human beings to a greater degree than the multitude of raw data convey individually, data-processing systems are now often referred to as [[information system]]s to shift the emphasis, although both perform the same conversion: data-processing systems typically manipulate raw data into information and likewise information systems typically take raw data as input to produce information as output.▼
▲'''Data processing''' is any [[computer]] [[process]] that converts [[data]] into [[information]]. The processing is usually assumed to be automated and running on an a [[mainframe]], [[minicomputer]], [[microcomputer]], or [[personal computer]]. Because data
To better market their profession, a [[computer programmer]] or a [[systems analyst]] that might once have referred, such as during the 1970s, to the computer systems that they produce as data-processing systems more often than not nowadays refers to the computer systems that they produce by some other term that includes the word [[information]], such as information systems, [[information technology]] systems, or [[management information systems]].
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