Business users and AI systems alike are growing impatient with static charts and hours-long report cycles, and in a fast-moving world, waiting on dashboards or backlogged analysts just doesn’t cut it.

Industry analysts note that dashboards are often “static, inflexible, and siloed” relics of a bygone era. It’s currently predicted that by 2025, advanced AI-powered analytics (like natural-language and augmented tools) will influence more business decisions than dashboards ever did.

Static visualizations can’t keep up with today’s fast-paced decision-making needs, and business intelligence tools like Tableau and Power BI alternatives are struggling to deliver the real-time insights leaders demand.

Today’s leading firms are turning to no-code or low-code approaches, enabling anyone (CEO, product manager, marketer, or analyst) to simply ask an AI assistant like Enola a question and instantly receive a data-backed answer, narrative, and recommendation.

The future belongs to conversational analytics platforms that understand natural language and deliver instant, actionable insights.

Why Traditional Dashboards Are Failing:

• Fixed Scope, Low Agility: Dashboards excel at snapshot monitoring (e.g., daily KPIs or production metrics), but they struggle with ad-hoc questions. Dashboards were originally designed to monitor known metrics over time, but modern business users need to discover new insights rather than just monitor existing ones.

• Long Update Cycles: Building or updating a dashboard often requires coordination with data teams or developers. Reports pile up and become stale. Most dashboards are quickly abandoned, leaving executives waiting weeks for insights instead of getting instant answers.

• Data Silos & Inconsistency: Dashboards live in siloed BI tools or spreadsheets. Conflicting definitions (e.g. different “revenue” calculations) and outdated data lead to inconsistent KPIs and mistrust. This mismatch between user needs and tool capabilities creates an insurmountable gap.

• Cognitive Overload: Executives get green/red lights and charts, but often no explanation of why. As one observer noted, dashboards “excel at providing a summary look of the business,” but can’t explain underlying drivers.

Analytics expert Piyanka Jain, founder and CEO of Aryng, explains the core issue:

“Analytics is the science of applying a structured method to solve a business problem using data and analysis to drive impact ”.

Slash Analytics Spend by 90% with AskEnola:

Enola eliminates most recurring analyst and dashboard maintenance expenses. Organizations report up to 90% lower analytics spend compared to traditional BI, thanks to:

• Natural-language queries that replace complex dashboard builds.

• Automated semantic-layer creation with zero manual modeling.

• In-warehouse queries that avoid data movement and replication.

She goes beyond simply answering questions as she guides leaders to ask sharper inquiries, uncovers patterns that humans might overlook, and delivers context-aware recommendations perfectly aligned with your strategic objectives.

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