Analytics 2025: Ignore These Trends at Your Peril

Analytics 2025: Ignore These Trends at Your Peril

- by Robert Eve, Expert in Data Analytics & BI

Change Is Upon Us, Will We Change as Well?

“The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.”

With 2025 around the corner and AI’s disruptions continuing, Albert Einstein’s wise counsel above seems especially prescient for every technology leader today. And perhaps most relevant to leaders in the analytics domain.

New thinking is required. New capabilities must be considered. New investments need to be made.

Where is Analytics Going in 2025? How Can You Benefit?

Complexity reigns in every organization.

  • Data foundations are distinct, diverse, and distributed; the architectures designed to bring clarity are fragile.
  • Analytics tools, acquired and deployed over many years, yet remarkably form a patchwork of overlapping and missing capabilities.
  • The roster of user types, from spreadsheet users to data scientists, continues to evolve and expand.

2025 Analytics Trends Not to Ignore 

While everyone’s starting points and destinations are distinct, certain analytics trends are universal, such as

  • AI-driven natural language interfaces supplement visual drag-and-drop design UIs, improving time to insight.
  • ML-driven insight generation that supplements traditional data analysis methods, often uncovering heretofore unknown insights.
  • Improved data storytelling presentation techniques improve actionability.
  • New centralized metrics stores that manage business metrics to deliver more consistent, higher-quality insights.
  • Advanced collaboration capabilities that enable diverse analytics communities to add value.
  • And more.

What’s An Analytics Leader to Do? 

This is the time of year when every Analytics leader builds their plans for the coming year. Nearly all start with five simple planning questions.

  • Where is Analytics going this year?
  • How can we benefit?
  • Where do we need to invest in new technology?
  • How do I sell this investment internally?
  • What starting points will yield the quickest return?

To help guide you in your 2025 Analytics Journey, we have assembled three experts:

– Prashanth H Southekal, PhD, MBA,  Founder of DBP Institute

– Ryan DolleyGoodData‘s Vice President of Product Strategy

– Jitender Aswani  StarTree‘s VP, Head of Engineering and Security

For our November 8 InsightJam.com Session: Analytics 2025: Ignore These Trends at Your Peril, at Noon ET.

I hope to see you then and there.