How AI can supercharge the benefits of business intelligence

The promise and ultimate goal of artificial intelligence is to make machine intelligent. With advancement in machine learning, statistical reasoning and pattern recognition, as well as the exponential growth in big data and computing power, AI has become the front and center of technological innovation and business transformation in the second decade of 21st century and beyond. In this respect, AI is perfectly aligned to the goal of business intelligence, which is to make business more intelligent by augmenting and, in some cases, automating human intelligence. As AI is getting smarter, it is not unreasonable to expect that BI will too. Traditionally, BI, along with data warehousing and big data technologies, provides systems, tools and processes to help companies harness data from disparate sources and turn them into high quality and actionable information to drive competitive advantage.