Get Ready For These Six 2020 Business Intelligence Trends

More and more often, businesses are using data to drive their decisions -- which makes cutting-edge analytics and business intelligence strategies one of the best advantages a company can have. New technologies, especially those driven by artificial intelligence (or AI), are changing how businesses collect and extract usable insights from data. Here are the six trends you should be aware of that will reshape business intelligence in 2020 and throughout the new decade. New data-collection technologies, like internet of things (IoT) devices, are providing businesses with vast banks of minute-to-minute data unlike anything collected before. Matt Turck, an AI and data investor, calls it "the'datafication' of everything" -- as more of the world comes online, it becomes possible to analyze, catalog and turn information into a format analysts, and AI, can break down.