business intelligence

“You can think of business intelligence going forward as the ability to apply machine learning algorithms to big data, and not just look at past questions, but also future questions, or asking to predict the unknowns from the knowns.”

“I don't want to say BI is dead, but it's, you know, it's on its last leg. I think everyone wants to move to more predictions, actionable, prescriptive analytics, and you can't do that when you're just kind of looking at pretty pictures. So I think we're seeing…”

“The first one is that it has to be immediate. It can't be eventual like BI. You can't just say, oh, I need to answer this question and then get an answer like three months later. It has to be answered in the moment.”

“Well, you can say maybe we should use Hadoop or BI. Unfortunately, these are kind of older generation tools. They require specialized skills and abilities to be able to use them. And so they need armies of analysts to use. These are really only affordable for …”