From Dashboards to Decision Intelligence
Traditional business intelligence platforms have historically focused on visualization-charts, KPIs, and trend lines that describe what has already happened. Power BI excels at this, enabling users to explore data interactively and monitor performance at scale.
However, modern business users expect more than visuals. They need clarity, reasoning, and guidance on what actions to take next. This marks the shift from dashboards toward true decision intelligence.
Business Challenges
Most organizations face a similar challenge. Dashboards answer what happened but rarely explain why it happened. Business users depend on analysts to interpret insights, which slows down decision-making and creates bottlenecks.
At the same time, data is fragmented across CRM systems, ERP platforms, project tools, and external APIs. Bringing this data together is difficult, and forming a single, trusted view becomes increasingly complex as data volumes grow.
Why Visualization Alone Is Not Enough
Even with powerful visualization tools, interpretation remains manual. KPIs lack business context, anomalies are not automatically explained, and insights rely heavily on tribal knowledge. This creates a gap between data availability and decision confidence.
Introducing Agent Bricks
Agent Bricks is introduced to close this gap. It acts as an AI orchestration and reasoning layer that consumes curated analytical data and applies large language model-based reasoning.
Instead of presenting raw numbers, Agent Bricks generates contextual insights, explanations, and recommendations aligned to business scenarios. Importantly, it enhances Power BI rather than replacing it.
High-Level Architecture
From an architecture standpoint, data flows from enterprise systems such as CRM, ERP, project management tools, and APIs. Azure Logic Apps manage ingestion, Azure Databricks handles analytics and modeling, Agent Bricks performs AI reasoning, and Power BI remains the consumption layer.
To conclude, dashboards remain a critical foundation for analytics, but they are no longer enough to support modern decision-making. As data complexity and business expectations grow, organizations need systems that can interpret data, explain outcomes, and guide actions.
Agent Bricks enables this shift by introducing AI-driven reasoning on top of existing Power BI investments. By bridging the gap between analytics and decision-making, it helps organizations move from passive reporting to proactive, insight-led execution. This marks the first step in the evolution from dashboards to true decision intelligence.
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