5 More BI and Analytics Predictions for 2019

Technology continues to rapidly transform every industry. The world of BI and analytics is no different. We've shared five predictions every data leader needs to know about in 2019, but there were five more we couldn't leave out. Traditional big BI products introduced the notion of semantic models - data models that aimed to provide a centralized, unified, logical, business-oriented abstraction over physical data sources, which serve as a single source of truth for business metrics. While the motivation for using semantic models was sound, the tools for building and maintaining them were extremely complex, requiring very specialized and expensive resources.