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Examining how metric trees enable a new a world of automation

Distinguishing AI functioning as a "reporter" vs a true analyst

How metric tree enable alignment across the organization

Exploring how AI can be effective in RDA vs EDA

Exploring the third time the analyst role has come under threat!

There is intrinsic power in modeling via graphs and relationships

Examining the evolution of data platforms from producer to consumer

The strange way data tracking chops up the business into pieces!

Examining how the financial P&L statement is a classic metric tree!

Examining the key principles building for data consumers versus producers

Exploring metric trees as the next modeling layer, as intuitive as Kimball's

The much needed evolution in BI/Analytics tools

Exploring why data fragmentation feels natural and how to arrest it

The key differences between metric catalogs, layers and trees

Formalizing the eternal debate on data-driven versus using judgement

Addressing the needs for the two distinct personas who consume data

Why BI tools are becoming UIs for exporting datasets

How metric trees can map a digital twin of the business process

Metric trees are the final modeling step for data consumption

Examining the differences between software and analytics development