From BI to AI: Dashboards Present Data, AI Offers Solutions

Eric Sobczak — Director Technical Innovation, AI/Software Solution Architect

In today’s digital landscape, dashboards help teams see what happened. Custom AI models go further: they predict what will happen and recommend what to do next.

Dashboards vs. Custom AI Models

BI dashboards excel at visualizing historical and real-time data, surfacing trends and anomalies. But they mostly answer what happened?

Custom AI models, trained on your data, add predictive and prescriptive analytics. They anticipate demand, forecast risk, and suggest actions.

Benefits of Custom AI

Predictive: plan proactively instead of reacting.
Tailored: recommendations tuned to your business.
Learns over time: improves as new data arrives.
Automates analysis: faster, cheaper, less bias.

Final Thoughts

Keep dashboards for clarity. Add AI for advantage. Teams that pair both improve forecasting, efficiency, and customer outcomes.