Extra Crunch Tuesday: It's time to abandon business intelligence tools

Welcome to Extra Crunch Tuesday

Business intelligence tools are designed to uncover hidden truths that produce desired outcomes.

Ideally, BI transforms raw data into actionable information, but according to Charles Caldwell, VP of product management at Logi Analytics, “a gap exists between the functionalities provided by current BI and data discovery tools and what users want and need.”

Few BI tools actually integrate with existing workflows and most offer clunky user experiences, “leaving many individuals feeling like they need an advanced computer science degree to actually be able to pull insights out.”

Instead of requiring workers to abandon workflow applications to access data, embedded analytics are more efficient and easier to use, says Caldwell.

In short, “it’s time to abandon BI — at least as we currently know it.”

Thanks very much for reading Extra Crunch this week — don’t miss our ongoing coverage of YC Demo Day!

Walter Thompson
Senior Editor, TechCrunch
@yourprotagonist

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