Office Hours with Tomasz Tunguz

Office Hours with Tom Tunguz & Colin Zima

Episode Summary

Colin Zima, Co-Founder and CEO of Omni Analytics and previously Chief Analytics Officer at Looker during its $2.6b acquisition by Google joins Tom Tunguz of Theory Ventures to discuss the evolving landscape of business intelligence including impacts of AI, self-service trends, and enhanced focus on data governance & security.

Episode Notes

Takeaways from this discussion include:

  1. There is a pendulum between governance and self-serve, and that swing is narrowing with developments like Omni
  2. There's a dynamic with centralization and decentralization hybrid execution at the edge which allows super-interactive user experiences. 
  3. As these experiences improve, the number of people who benefit and can access data in meaningful ways only increases.

00:06 Introduction

01:27 Being Chief Analytics Officer

04:08 Evolution of BI

08:23  Data Organization Structure

10:53  Data Permissioning Philosophy

14:12  Hybrid Execution

17:36  BI Application Architecture

19:36 Mitigating Buyer Fatigue

21:20 BI & AI

25:59 Semantic Layer

27:12 Audience Question: Should AI Suggest Analyses?

28:43 Embedded Analytics

32:48 Will AI Automate BI Users Away?

35:00 Summary