The Future of BI and Analytics Is AI and Machine Learning

When analyst house Gartner, Inc. introduced the concept of augmented analytics a few years back, many in the industry rolled their eyes. They thought of course AI and machine learning would impact business intelligence software in some capacity, but not until the technology could be reliably applied across the board. As it turns out, the researcher was dead on with their predictions of it fundamentally transforming the space. AI-enabled analytics tools are quickly becoming the market norm, and there’s no going back. Gartner identified its Top 10 Data and Analytics Technology Trends for 2019 earlier this week, and though augmented analytics remains top of mind for the analyst firm, augmented data management comes in at number-two. Like its cousin, augmented data management takes advantage of ripe machine learning and AI capabilities to make important information management tasks what Gartner calls “self-configuring and self-tuning.”