BI Tools
topic on 5 shows · 6 statements across 6 episodes
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Zima: Combining SQL tiles and governed metrics was hard in legacy BI
“Before it would be like, I need to make a dashboard that has a SQL tile over here and a governed metric over here. I know that sounds like the simplest thing ever, shockingly hard to do in every single BI tool that existed.”
Tavakoli: Voice interfaces will soon replace click-and-drag BI tools
“I think most people naturally believe that interface is going to go to voice, right?
I think it's voice.
And so clicking and dragging and dropping like BI tools, like I clicked here, I did that.
I think that part is going away.”
Kirkos: BI tools fail by being either too technical or too basic
“They're either really technical and then non-technical people just press export to CSV, or you're using a really non-technical tool and then the technical folks don't want to engage with it.”
Smith: Compute infrastructure unlocks top-line revenue whereas BI merely targets bottom-line costs
“The BI tool is a bottom line driver. Whereas when you provide more compute capabilities to a company, that's a that's a productivity and top line driver. It can be a bottom line driver because it can drive for efficiencies on the, on those infrastructure cost …”
Stancil: Semantic modeling layers should exist outside of BI tools
“Rather than that living in your BI tool, we think that should live in, in a more generalized layer, and then we just consume from it.”