> A BI tool is mostly a way to turn a query into a picture, and a picture now costs about $0.50 of tokens. It gets hard to justify a $150k licence for that part
That is an awfully simplified view of BI. In my experience, most companies struggle to define what is important, what needs to be measured, and how those measurements should be used to improve business.
While businesses try to work these details out, they try getting their analysts to in the author's words print out good pictures. But the BI tools really exist to make it easy for analysts to navigate hairy internal situations.
Producing a picture or HTML more easily is not going to solve the decisioning problem. If anything it might make it worse.
In the end, it's going to cost a lot more than 50 cents a picture.
That is an awfully simplified view of BI. In my experience, most companies struggle to define what is important, what needs to be measured, and how those measurements should be used to improve business.
While businesses try to work these details out, they try getting their analysts to in the author's words print out good pictures. But the BI tools really exist to make it easy for analysts to navigate hairy internal situations.
Producing a picture or HTML more easily is not going to solve the decisioning problem. If anything it might make it worse.
In the end, it's going to cost a lot more than 50 cents a picture.