TextQL vs Legacy BI: Is This the End of Traditional Dashboards?
“Your data is fine. Your AI isn’t good enough.” That is the bold statement behind TextQL, and it immediately caught my attention here at Gartner. I sat down with Ethan Ding, Co-Founder, CEO & Head of Product, TextQL, to unpack what he means by that and why they are challenging many assumptions around BI and analytics.
Most enterprises have spent years building ETL pipelines, cleaning data, and preparing dashboards. The belief has been that AI will only work once data is perfectly structured.
Ethan disagrees.
He believes the real limitation has been the AI systems themselves.
We talked about…
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