Show Notes
Business intelligence has always been good at telling you what happened. It's never been great at telling you what to do about it. In this episode, AtScale's CEO and co-founder Dave Mariani sits down with Donald Farmer, Principal of Treehive Strategy, to talk about why AI is finally closing that gap. You'll get Donald's take on: How AI will start to take over the exploratory, discovery side of analyticsWhy "revenue" means something different to marketing, sales, and finance , and why se...
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