Traditional Business Intelligence Isn't Dying. It's Dead
RTInsights, Wednesday, October 8th, 2025
For the average business user, the death of traditional BI is not a tragedy. It's a liberation that comes from the birth of something a lot less frustrating and a lot more powerful: actual conversations with your data.
Traditional business intelligence (BI) is dead, and AI killed it.
I say this as someone who dedicated a significant portion of my career to the first wave of data warehousing and business intelligence development. I built the very systems I'm declaring obsolete. I now spend a lot of my time helping organizations use AI to solve the problems I created.
In all fairness, however, I don't think that traditional BI died because it was bad technology. It died because it didn't solve the right problem.