[msgodel]

Maybe I should clarify: It makes no sense from a system architecture perspective. Obviously if you're doing analytics you want to know the difference.

[imilk]

A systems architecture perspective should be very very inclusive of the business perspective.

[msgodel]

In theory.

In practice business people have such a poor intuition for systems design you end up with borderline unusable software when you do that.

[imilk]

that's why systems architects are supposed to get paid well, because there are a lot of different stakeholders to consider