AI Is Forcing Analytics Teams Into a New Role
BigDATAwire, Monday, August 17th, 2026
BigDATAwire argues analytics teams must shift from building dashboards to supplying the semantics AI agents consume.
BigDATAwire examines how AI is changing what analytics teams are for. For years those teams built dashboards, reports and pipelines, established definitions and documented metrics so business leaders could answer questions.
Employees across enterprises are now turning to ChatGPT, Claude, Copilot and other AI systems instead of opening dashboards directly.
The difference matters: a dashboard returns a metric, while an agent interprets information, combines data from multiple systems and applies logic. Author Soham Mazumdar argues that shifts the analytics team's job toward defining and governing the semantics agents rely on.