AI Reveals Why BI Still Matters

Ask a BI engineer what they actually spend their time on: it’s not building dashboards. More often: fixing the join that broke in the overnight pipeline, untangling the metric definition that means three different things to three different teams, or getting last week’s numbers into an Excel by Monday morning. The dashboard was always the easy part. This article looks at how BI evolved, how dashboards are actually used today, and what survives when AI enters the picture — starting with the…