Colin Zima, Co-Founder and CEO of Omni Analytics and previously Chief Analytics Officer at Looker during its $2.6b acquisition by Google joins Tom Tunguz of Theory Ventures to discuss the evolving landscape of business intelligence including impacts of AI, self-service trends, and enhanced focus on data governance & security.
Takeaways from this discussion include:
-- There is a pendulum between governance and self-serve, and that swing is narrowing with developments like Omni
-- There's a dynamic with centralization and decentralization hybrid execution at the edge which allows super-interactive user experiences.
-- As these experiences improve, the number of people who benefit and can access data in meaningful ways only increases.
00:06 Introduction
01:27 Being Chief Analytics Officer
04:08 Evolution of BI
08:23 Data Organization Structure
10:53 Data Permissioning Philosophy
14:12 Hybrid Execution
17:36 BI Application Architecture
19:36 Mitigating Buyer Fatigue
21:20 BI & AI
25:59 Semantic Layer
27:12 Audience Question: Should AI Suggest Analyses?
28:43 Embedded Analytics
32:48 Will AI Automate BI Users Away?
35:00 Summary