Editing Data processing (section)

=== Other developments ===
The term ''data processing'' has mostly been subsumed by the more general term ''[[information technology]]'' (IT).<ref>{{cite book|title=Google N gram viewer|url=https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=information+technology&year_start=1900&year_end=2000&corpus=15&smoothing=3&share=&direct_url=t1%3B%2Cinformation%20technology%3B%2Cc0|access-date=April 28, 2018}}</ref> The older term "data processing" is suggestive of older technologies. For example, in 1996 the ''[[Data Processing Management Association]]'' (DPMA) changed its name to the ''Association of Information Technology Professionals''. Nevertheless, the terms are approximately synonymous.