2015 Magic Quadrant Business intelligence
…a continuing trend which I gladly welcome…
IT WAS the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us…
–Charles Dickens
Truer words were never spoken, whether about the current technological times or deep in our past (remember the good ole enterprise report books, aka the 120 page paper weight?)
And, this data gal couldn’t be happier with the final predictions made by Gartner in their 2015 Magic Quadrant Report for Business Intelligence. Two major trends / differentiators fall right into the sweet spot I adore:
New demands for advanced analytics
Focus on predictive/prescriptive capabilities
Whether you think this spells out doom for business intelligence as it exists today or not, you cannot deny that these trends in data science and big data can only force us to finally work smarter, and not harder (is that even possible??)
What are your thoughts…?
Musings on ML, Deep Learning & AI 
I am also excited by the melting of BI and Statistics on a broader more visceral scale.
Thanks, Marina! I couldn’t have said it better!