The Intelligent Enterprise

I was reading some things about agent governance. Mainly Vitalik Buterin's tweet that exposes a framework for having agents become representatives of ourselves in democratic decisions. Basically personal governance agents.

AI use continues to grow across organizations. Everyone around us, at this point in time, is using an LLM model - whether standalone, embedded within enterprise applications or connected via an MCP. The rate of growth presents numerous challenges. Security being the most concerning one - individuals copying and pasting company data to get results, MCP servers granted root-like access to machines, and other uses I'm sure cybersecurity teams are sniffing out. The other challenge is an informati...

There's a big shift coming for Business Intelligence. One where the use of dashboards and reports become obsolete and is replaced by the use of LLMs via data agents. Moving forward, users interact with said data agents to ask questions and generate visuals that can help tell the story. As a result, BI engineers and developers must move further downstream to help the LLM and said data agent understand the organization's data and provide the guardrails that allow it to flourish. The introductio...

I should start this post by stating that I'm commingling BI and analytics together for the purpose of this post and using a generalized "Analytics" to represent the roles that support data and the use of data. A future post will be dedicated to all of the ways an organization can set up BI teams, analytics teams, and data engineering teams. When we talk about analytics at an organization, two operating models are usually at the forefront of preferences or strategic options. A centralized anal...

I wasn't planning on talking about the intersection of AI (LLMs) and Business Intelligence now but how can one avoid talking about anything but. Let's take a little detour. Even if we are talking about LLMs, allow me to simply say "AI" throughout this post. AI has its place in the world of BI. I believe there is value in embedding AI capabilities into your BI stack - whether it's an aide to engineers as they develop or an agent that the business can interact with. That is the spectrum as I se...

I'm excited to kick off what will soon follow - a long series of thoughts about my experience leading Business Intelligence teams, growing BI maturity across organizations, and everything that comes with it.