Here's what AI likely means for traditional BI and analytics tools

Is artificial intelligence leading to the decline or the rebirth of business intelligence? 

Front-end business intelligence and data analytics tools ruled the markets for years. Now, AI is changing all that. Accordingly, major BI vendors are transitioning to "AI" companies. What do end-users need to know about the future of BI and data analytics in the AI era? 

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Established BI vendors have gotten the message, with new tools that go well beyond reporting and pretty graphs. For example, Qlik, long a leading BI vendor, is conducting what it calls a global "AI Reality Tour," described recently by industry speaker and author Dez Blanchfield. The vendor's move into natural language processing (NLP) -- via generative AI -- enables users to interact with data using everyday language, he noted. Additional capabilities "extend to ...