These 3 things will change the way we do Business Intelligence

While major players keep betting on the producer vs explorer model to access data, a revolution is on its way fuelled by three main factors: startups, machine learning and natural language. Here is how entrepreneurs and technology are changing how we do business intelligence and shifting the paradigm of an old industry. "Over the next few years, BI vendors are expected to start playing a quick game of catch-up with the virtual personal assistant market. Initially, BI vendors will enable basic voice commands for their standard interfaces, followed by natural language processing of spoken or text input into SQL queries. Ultimately, "personal analytic assistants" will emerge that understand user context, offer two-way dialogue, and (ideally) maintain a conversational thread."