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This blog dives into the practical challenges (“battle scars”) encountered while moving agentic AI analytics from demo to production. Covering real-world engineering and product lessons, it highlights pitfalls like ambiguous language, mismatched definitions, performance tail‑latency, lack of observability, and unreliable multi‑step logic. For each scar, it provides strategies—governed semantics, demander/validator separation, deterministic planning, explicit feedback loops, and transparency—that help build robust, trustworthy analytics agents at enterprise scale. If you’re rolling out AI analytics agents, these lessons can help you avoid common traps and ship with confidence.

As AI agents take over routine data tasks, the traditional analyst role isn’t disappearing—it’s evolving. In the “agentic era,” analysts transition from data cleaners and report builders into orchestrators who guide AI workflows, interpret results, and embed insights into business decisions. This blog explains the mechanics of agentic analytics, explores how AI handles repetitive work, and defines the new skills needed—like prompt engineering, bias review, and ethical oversight—to thrive alongside autonomous systems.

Tellius has been named a Visionary for the 4th year in a row in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Analytics & BI Platforms. Why? Because we’re not just stopping at dashboards. We’re moving the industry forward with: - GenAI-powered conversational analytics - Agentic flows that connect insight to action - An end-to-end platform built for enterprise-grade governance The future of business intelligence isn’t just pretty charts. It’s intelligent decisions—made faster.

AI agents are not a “nice-to-have”; they’re a must-have if you want to break free from analysis paralysis, truly democratize data-driven decision-making, and scale your analytics across hundreds (or thousands) of business users. The real promise of data democratization is not just in enabling more people to ask questions, but in enabling those questions to be answered comprehensively and autonomously.

The path from dashboard sprawl to true self-service isn't just about better technology—it's about unlocking your team's ability to act on insights in real-time. While traditional BI tools force pharma teams into endless workarounds, AI-powered platforms like Tellius are purpose-built for the complexity, compliance requirements, and speed demands of commercial pharma.

Traditional self-service BI tools promised independence but often left users dependent on analysts and stuck with complex interfaces. AI agents are now transforming the analytics landscape by managing complexity, automating workflows, and reasoning behind the scenes. Paired with a semantic knowledge layer, these agents deliver accurate, business-aware insights. With Tellius, users don’t need to learn analytics—they just ask questions and get answers. True self-service has finally arrived.

TLDR: agents on the rise, conversational everything, governance & data quality = king, driving/demonstrating ROI, the power of people never gets old.

Learn how the new Kaiya features in Tellius 5.3 transform the way teams interact with their data, saving time and driving better outcomes.

Remember when Google revolutionized how we navigate the internet, shifting us from endless scrolling to quick searching? Today, AI models like ChatGPT are taking it a step further, turning our interactions into dynamic conversations rather than one-way commands.

Learn how AI-powered variance analysis is transforming how organizations uncover and act upon financial insights.

Conversational FP&A AI analytics promises to transform raw data into powerful financial insights and narratives that move the business forward, powered by generative AI.

Introducing Tellius Kaiya: A suite of GenAI-powered tools designed to democratize data-driven decision-making for the entire organization.

The 2024 Gartner Data & Analytics Summit was a jam-packed three days of sessions and networking opportunities for data & analytics leaders. Here's what Tellius took away from the event.

We're excited to announce that Gartner has named Tellius a Visionary for the third year in a row in the 2024 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Analytics and Business Intelligence Platforms report!

Let's explore the next level of analytics with Tellius 5.0, which includes GenAI-upgraded natural language processing (NLP) search.

Here are some common pitfalls we've seen for organizations launching a self-serve analytics vision—and how to avoid them to maximize your odds of success.

Although the journey to investing in an AI-powered analytics platform might seem daunting, it's a critical step in unlocking the full potential of your data. The right platform isn't just an investment in technology—it's an investment in the future success of your business.

Using generative AI for data analytics will have a transformative change on organizations. Read some of the most commonly asked questions about GenAI analytics implementation.

Pharmacyclics, an AbbVie company, sought to empower more members of its commercial team to make better and faster data-driven decisions. The IT team used Tellius to up their analytics game.

We’re thrilled to announce that Tellius was recognized by customers as a Strong Performer in the 2023 Gartner Peer Insights “Voice of the Customer”: Analytics and BI Platforms.

Implementing AI-driven analytics is a catalyst for transformative change in the pharmaceutical and life sciences world.

Learn how eBay is supercharging its decision-making process with powerful self-service analytics and data exploration from Tellius.

In this latest Tellius product release, we're ensuring you get real-time insights from live, dynamic data. Read to find out more about 4.2.

The IT ops team at a major CPG company is using Tellius' decision intelligence platform to proactively identify risks before incidents occur.

We were thrilled to connect with some brilliant minds in the AI space at Luminate AI’s recent kickoff event in New York City, where we got to chat about the future of AI and return with new learnings about this ever-so-hot field.

Self-driving cars. Self-service analytics. There are some interesting parallels to draw & lessons to be learned about the future of analytics.

Learn how GSK spin-off Haleon—the world's largest consumer healthcare company—is building an insights-driven company using decision intelligence to increase brand growth and drive efficiency/agility.

Tellius, the AI-driven decision intelligence platform, has been recognized as a Visionary again by Gartner in the Magic Quadrant™ for Analytics & Business Intelligence Platforms.

Self-service analytics is enabling business users to run queries and create reports on their own with limited help from IT. However, the term has evolved quite a bit over the past decade. Here's what we learned from Gartner's summit.

Tellius has announced Copilot, a new set of GPT-integrated product enhancements that leverage OpenAI’s large language models.

The path from data to insights has never been easier with the Delta Lake connection with Tellius.

Data-driven decision-making is vital to CPG companies as consumer preferences and buying patterns change. Learn how self-service analytics can help.

Why are more organizations turning toward self-service analytics? Businesses thrive when everyone—not just the data experts—has access to the tools and information they need to make quick, insightful decisions driven by data.

We just raised our $16M Series B funding round at Tellius ($33M to date) and couldn't be more excited! Read how we got here and what's next.

In this mid-year product roundup, Tellius showcases the major innovations rolled out in 2022 — from enhanced natural language querying and deeper root cause analysis, to scalable data prep and governance capabilities. These updates set the stage for the platform’s evolution into an AI-native, agentic analytics solution that empowers every user to move from questions to confident action, faster than ever.

This week, Tellius joined 300+ data and analytics executives in Boston for the 8th annual Chief Data & Analytics Officers (CDAO) Conference. Here are 10 Key Takeaways gleaned over the last 3 days attending 55 sessions featuring 80 speakers alongside 300+ of the nation’s top CDAOs.

This is the story of how FCA is empowering 100s of users to go beyond traditional BI capabilities while saving 100+ hours a month of manual data reporting to reliably make better data-informed decisions.

We’re excited to share that Tellius has been recognized as a Representative Vendor in the 2022 Gartner Market Guide for Multipersona Data Science and Machine Learning Platforms (DSML) – just a month after being recognized as a Visionary in the Gartner Magic QuadrantTM for Analytics & Business Intelligence Platforms!

Tellius was recently named a Visionary in the Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Analytics & BI Platforms. We believe we were named a Visionary because of our vision of building a unified platform that enables anyone, regardless of their analytical skills, to get insights into “what” is happening, “why” metrics changed, and “how” to improve business outcomes at cloud scale.

Learn why more organizations are looking beyond traditional dashboards to Decision Intelligence to deliver critical answers from your business data.

Recently, Tellius CEO, Ajay Khanna, chatted with Dataversity: a leading producer of education resources for business and IT professionals, on the uses and management of data. The article is centered around the three main ways that he believes analytics will progress in 2022.

Live Insights enables users to quickly generate powerful data analysis within their cloud data warehouses. This new capability leverages the compute power of cloud data platforms for automated generation of advanced insights without requiring data to be extracted.

Data-driven organizations should not be content with the same old approaches to data consumption. In the modern data stack, each layer plays a key role in your organization’s goals to get better insights from vast amounts of data and to proactively uncover new opportunities for growth.

The typical analytics ecosystem is rigid and based on two silos: business intelligence and data science. Learn about how Tellius & Looker work together to help data teams & business users alike save time and take action faster by empowering them to train models and start taking action in minutes.

It is with excitement that Tellius announces the upcoming availability of Java User Defined Function (UDF) support for Snowflake. This new integration is a result of the continued partnership between Tellius and Snowflake that was first announced in 2019.

In this piece, Chris Reuter explores Natural Language Technology from the consumer world, evaluates why Natural Language Search for Analytics has not seen the same adoption as the consumer world, and makes predictions for how the industry will drive adoption.

New capabilities empower users to start analysis quickly, ask deep questions easily, and scale securely and cost effectively.

In a previous post we highlighted the four key reasons Tellius excels on Snowflake such as the ability to push down Tellius search and visualization queries directly to the underlying Snowflake database without data movement or copy — today, we’d like to highlight a fifth reason to love Tellius on Snowflake.

Learn how Tellius helps analyze user session and event data. Part 1 discusses how SQL experts can prepare and transform data in Tellius.

Learn what makes Tellius decision intelligence and Snowflake cloud data platform a great combination for mobilizing smart insights across your organization.

Convergence of essential technologies with an amazing user experience made iPhones ubiquitous - how will these lessons transform data analytics?

Chris breaks down why customers win with the Tellius On-Demand offering and how it eliminates the cost and performance barriers to utilizing Guided Insights driven by AI and ML.

On-Demand offering dramatically lowers the barrier for organizations to utilize AI-driven analytics at any scale, saving customers up to 70% compared to legacy “cloudified” technology

Ajay Khanna, Tellius Founder & CEO, explains why Guided Insights and Tellius On-Demand will shake up the world of data intelligence.

AI-Driven Analytics Leader Accelerates Sales, Closing Deals with Top Fortune 500 Brands, and Expands Executive Management Team

Industry veteran Russ Cosentino reveal why he joined the Tellius team and what excites him most about our mission we're on.

Read how augmented analytics helps a top global law firm gain a competitive advantage by creating a data-driven culture.

Learn how one company increased their ROI much faster with AI-powered segmentation and targeted campaigns compared to traditional methods.

Madhukara Phatak, Tellius Director of Engineering, breaks down the challenges of traditional multi-data source analytics and how we overcome these challenges with Apache Spark.

Read how Canada's largest college overcame challenges with their BI system and reduced time-to-insight from days to minutes.

Here are the five obvious and not-so-obvious ways that your BI solution is holding your company back. Who wants to settle for "business as usual?"

Adoption of self-service business intelligence (BI) hovers around 20 percent of most organizations. Here are 4 ways to take self-service to the next level.

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