Kurdin: Enterprise buyers reject black-box automation without a user dashboard
“What I've realized is that if you got a job at a big enough company to own this function,
You kind of want to log into somewhere to see what's happening.
It's like not enough for it to just happen behind the scenes.
You want a dashboard.”
Snowflake CMO: Dashboards are dead because AI allows real-time data interrogation
“That's why I'm saying that the dashboard is dead. I don't think it's fully dead yet. But again, that ability to really understand the why and get, you know, recommendations in real time.”
Stay Sassy EM: Dashboards must become agent-compatible this year
“The ability to do, like, any simple find-and-grab information from a dashboard, like, I think that just has to be agent-compatible, like, this year for companies, because that is one of those things where if you spend 10 minutes searching for a key that you ca…”
Mooney: Sales reps will not check dashboards unless data is pushed to them
“Reps don't need to go into dashboards. I cannot repeat that enough. They will not go and find out what their win rate is. You need to push it to them.”
Bret Taylor: Importance of Traditional Software Dashboards Will Decline
“I think the importance of dashboards will go down. A point of a dashboard is so a human can stare at it and derive some insights. I think that probably AI can serve a very meaningful role in deriving insights from your data”
Ramaswamy: 2D Dashboards Fail to Answer Complex Enterprise Questions
“A dashboard is a two D view of a complex surface. It just has no easy answers to the many questions that any reasonable person you or I is going to have off of that.”
Sands: Static dashboards will be obsolete within nine months as agents take over
“I think the value of near real time, high quality, well documented data is about to skyrocket because I'm pretty sure that nine months from now, no one is going to want to go and like look at a even like static dashboard and click around. They're going to want…”
Levie: Graphical user interfaces will remain essential alongside AI agents
“The theory of, like, the full abstraction away from the interface, and it's all an API call, I don't think that happens, and so, ironically, probably what will happen is in a couple years from now, we will see agents, like, rebuild entire web pages and dashboa…”
Recent defense tech modernization prioritized dashboards over software for warfighters
“I think the last five, 10 years, a lot of the modernization that happened was just, like, putting up new dashboards that are running in these operation centers on, like, bigger TVs, but we haven't really deployed software to the warfighter to the operator.”
Salesforce found that building dashboards drove retention, not just loading data
“So at first, Salesforce had this idea, right, that all you needed to do was load your data into Salesforce, and that would drive retention because they had all of your data. They did a bunch of analyses, and they realized that that's not what drove retention. …”
Crowley: Talking to 10 Users Yields Better Insights Than Dashboards
“Most PMs, most jobs, most products, you're gonna be better off talking to 10 users, and you'll get more and better insights out of why things are happening than you would with any dashboard link.”
Text-to-SQL is table stakes and largely better than traditional dashboards
“Now the whole text to SQL has become, you know, table stakes. I mean, you can interrogate, you know you know, Salesforce data on Snowflake, you know, what just text to SQL. And it's really nice by the way. I mean, hell, it's all a lot better than using dashboa…”
Traditional BI dashboards drive low adoption by interrupting user workflows
“What we see our customers asking for and where we see the market going is People want the analytics to come to them. They don't want to stop what they're doing and go look at a dashboard and come back to what they're doing. That's why we're seeing a low adopti…”
Le-Quoc: Continuous dashboard monitoring fails due to human visual fatigue
“Once you can put it on a screen, it's great, but you're not gonna watch watch this for an entire day, or even a few hours, because A, you'll get tired of it, B, your brain will sort of things will become blurry, and you'll, you'll use your, you'll lose your ef…”
Robbie Allen: Most dashboards eventually become useless as users establish baselines
“Eventually most dashboards become useless Because people are already used to seeing it, it's giving them the same information that mostly that they saw last month or last week, and so they stopped looking at it.”
Analytics dashboards are useless unless they directly drive action
“The dashboard, the insight's never enough. You need to get either to the decision, or you need to get to the doing of the thing.”