Why do I say today? Because working as a systems programmer in a large insurance company in 70’s and consulting several global financial institutions in 80’s information collection, analyzing, designing for business intelligence, etc were main (and most interesting) tasks in my profession. At end of 80’s and since then even asking about information, NOT data, has been labeled you as an outdated old-timer.

What is interesting that BI, capacity planning, total security, etc are coming back in IT, same functions and tasks but with new, different names, acronyms, abbreviations.