Agentic Analytics Glossary: Key Terms & Concepts

Data integration is an important feature in modern software that allows businesses to combine data from multiple sources. It is the process of collecting, organizing, and combining data fr...read more

Real time analytics is a software feature that enables immediate data analysis and visualization as data is being generated. It provides businesses with the ability to monitor and analyze ...read more

API integration is a feature that allows different software systems, platforms, or applications to seamlessly communicate with each other. It enables the exchange of data, functionality, a...read more

Ad hoc analysis is a powerful tool that allows users to perform data analysis on demand without the need for predefined criteria or reports. This feature is typically found in business int...read more

Root cause analysis is a feature commonly found in software programs that allows users to identify the underlying cause of a problem or issue. This tool is particularly useful in troublesh...read more

Sitting between raw databases and the people who query them, a semantic layer defines business terms such as revenue, active customer, or churn once, in a central place, so every report us...read more

Dashboards, charts, and reports delivered inside another application rather than in a separate BI tool, so end users see data without switching products. Delivery is usually through an ifr...read more

Lets business users explore data and build their own reports, filters and dashboards without asking a data team to write a query each time. Governed datasets, drag-and-drop query builders ...read more

Self-hosting means the software runs inside infrastructure you control rather than the vendor, usually from an open-source build, a container image or a licensed enterprise package. For a...read more

Automated insights means the platform looks for what changed without being asked, then writes up what it found: a metric that moved, a segment pulling the average, a pattern across two sou...read more

Governed metrics means the definition of revenue, churn or an active customer is written down once and every answer is computed from that definition. For an analytics agent this is the co...read more

Conversational querying lets someone ask a data question in ordinary language and get an answer back, with the platform deciding which tables to read and what query to run. The thing to c...read more

Query transparency means every answer carries the query that produced it, so anyone can read the SQL, the filters and the steps the agent took. This is what makes an agent answer usable i...read more

Scheduled agent runs let a question run on a timetable rather than only when someone asks, delivering the answer to an inbox, a Slack channel or a saved report. It turns a one-off investi...read more