AI vs BI in 2025: How to Choose the Right Data Strategy for Your Business

• Business Intelligence (BI) is limited to looking at past and present data to help companies make informed decisions. 
• To organize the data in a usable format, BI uses dashboards, reports, data visualizations, and query tools. 
• Artificial intelligence (AI) mimics human intelligence. 
• AI includes certain areas, such as machine learning, predicting future trends, natural language processing, imagery processing, and automated functions. 

• BI reveals data insights. 
• AI acts on data insights and predicts based on data

• You want to analyze historical performance and extrapolate trends. 
• You require dashboards to monitor key performance indicators across multiple departments. 
• You rely on data that's precise and organized. 
• You need clear and usable tables, graphs and charts to present the information to your team and leaders. 

• You want to automate tasks.
• You need to predict future trends or how customers may behave.
• You want machines to learn from patterns and make their own decisions.
• You have a lot of data that is structured, or not structured.

• In 2025, 463 exabytes of data will be generated every day.
• BI tools inform you of the past, AI shows you what could happen next. It is no longer enough to rely solely on the past.

• Remote work, mixed teams, and AI assistants are becoming the norm.
• Organizations need systems that can adapt quickly, but BI tools do not produce the speed needed.

• Customers now expect prompt answers, personalized experiences, and services that can predict their needs. 
• Only AI has the ability to deliver this at scale.

• Whether through ChatGPT, Copilot, or simple user interfaces and cloud-based machine learning platforms, AI is truly becoming applicable to everyone.
• Small and medium-sized businesses can now access AI; they do not require huge amounts of cash that the largest firms have, they can compete with AI.

• It's knowing when to use each. 
• BI tells you what is happening and why it is happening. 
• AI tells you what to do next and how to take action. 
• In 2025, smart Companies will use both in a smart way: 
• Simply use BI to measure progress and make reporting. 

• AI & BI demand accredited acceptable data
• If the data is bad the results will be bad too. By 2025 having rapid access to data flows or the ability to integrate data will be critical for businesses.

• You need more than software!
• You need people with data skills, plus, analytics skills to build AI models, create visual reports, and support technology to meet business needs.

• AI can look like it’s the answer to everything, but it has an expensive setup cost. 
• Before starting, it is critical to identify goals and measurements of success.

1. What is the problem needing to be solved? 
2. Is my data clean or messy? 
3. Do I want analytics (BI) or something that predicts or acts (AI)? 
4. Do I have the right employees internally to deploy AI? 
5. What is success? (is it more money, less money, or a better customer experience? ) 

• Start with business intelligence! 
• Understand your data. 
• Get some easy-to-use tools such as dashboards. 

• You likely already have business intelligence! 
• But are you maximizing AI? 

1. In 2025, leaders will not have to choose AI or BI, they will be able to have both. 
2. BI is for storytelling and strategizing, whereas AI is for speed, execution, and immediacy. 
3. In short, both BI and AI can be cycled together: BI shows what has happened, AI learns, takes action, and generates new data back into BI. 

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• Your company does not need trends. Your company needs results. 
• If your company has data but no understanding, begin with business intelligence. 
• If your company needs rapid-fire decisions, enhanced predictions, and automation, it's time for AI. 
• If you desire to be the leader in your space, make a plan that leverages both.