What legacy business intelligence technology can learn from video games

In the last decade, business intelligence (BI) and data visualization have grown into a critical business functions. However, while BI and data viz tools have become increasingly prevalent, most organizations continue to struggle to extract timely and actionable insights from them.

The problem isn’t adoption or access. Companies recognize the need. It’s both performance and capability. Today’s business intelligence platforms are still constrained by architectural limitations inherited from a different era: one where data came from a handful of sources and changed infrequently.

In contrast, today’s data environment encompasses massive data warehouses, event streaming, real-time IoT sensors, and constantly shifting inputs that must be aggregated, enriched, pre-processed, and understood on timelines ranging from days to milliseconds.