Many AI-analytics demos promise magic: impressive visuals, slick dashboards, and smooth interactions. But in real business settings, those polished demos often break down. This post pulls back the curtain and explains what it really takes to make AI analytics work at enterprise scale. You'll learn about: Building agentic architecture that supports complex queries and multi-step insights Ensuring reliability with intent parsing, root cause detection, and strong validation layers Managing data quality, security, and governance so insights can be trusted Scaling models, visualizations, and workflows to support thousands of users and billions of rows of data If you're evaluating AI analytics tools or planning your own build, this is your guide to separating real capabilities from toy demos and focusing on what drives measurable performance.

This 2025 guide to AI analytics covers definition, architecture, and examples—plus how agentic AI with a semantic layer and orchestrated AI agents turns insights into approved action, reducing time-to-action and delivering measurable impact.

Tellius, the AI-driven decision intelligence platform, today announced a partnership with Databricks to give joint customers the ability to run Tellius natural language search queries and automated insights directly on the Databricks Lakehouse Platform, powered by Delta Lake, without the need to move any data.