In a recent talk at Cypher 2023, Shashank Gandhi, a Product Manager at Google, delved into the future of Business Intelligence (BI) in the GenAI world. Gandhi, who works for Looker, Google's complete BI offering, discussed the challenges and opportunities that lie ahead for organizations striving to make the most out of their data and AI investments.
The GenAI Revolution
Gandhi began by highlighting the transformative potential of Generative AI (GenAI) in disrupting traditional BI. He noted that despite significant investments in data and AI, only 68% of companies are able to realize value from their data. However, GenAI stands as a silver lining, offering an inflection point that promises to add tremendous new business value.
Google's Data and AI Cloud
Google's Data and AI Cloud serves as a unified platform for analytics, database, and AI workloads. It offers integrated data products and is built for Google scale, making it simple and easy to use. Gandhi emphasized that Google's approach is multi-format, multi-engine, and multi-storage, designed to simplify the governance of data, analytics, and AI.
