Unity Layer: Why conversational analytics is the next wave of BI

For years, Business Intelligence (BI) tools have promised empowerment and self-service, but delivered complexity and frustration. We’ve been stuck in the era of the dashboard bottleneck: custom reports, rigid visualization tools, and the eternal, time-consuming loop of the business team filing a request and the data team preparing dashboards.

This friction is the ultimate inhibitor of data-driven decisions.

Today, we’re launching Unity Layer to change this reality. Unity Layer is an AI-powered platform that doesn’t just improve BI—it completely reimagines it.

The hidden cost of traditional BI

To truly appreciate the shift of conversational BI, we must first recognize the deep pain points that traditional BI created:

• The analyst as a gatekeeper: Business users shouldn’t need a data analyst’s phone number to answer a simple question like, “What was our year-over-year revenue growth in Q3 for our top two regions?” Yet, in most organizations, that’s exactly the process.
• Static, dead-end dashboards: Dashboards are great for monitoring known KPIs. They are terrible for exploration. When an unexpected dip or spike appears, users are left staring at a pre-filtered chart with no way to ask, “Why did that happen?”
• Decisions delayed: The time lag between a question arising and an answer being delivered—days, sometimes weeks—means decisions are often made on intuition, not data.

The conversational revolution: Simply ask and accelerate discovery

Conversational analytics, powered by Generative AI, changes the interface of data. It moves from a rigid UI that dictates how you explore to a flexible agent that listens.

With Unity Layer, the barrier between the human thought process and the data is removed. There is no need to learn a query language or navigate complex dashboards.

Unity Layer is built on three pillars: Agentic analysis, AI-powered data catalog, and seamless collaboration

Why Unity Layer is a game-changer

We leveraged the power of GenAI to solve the fundamental problem of fast access to insights while maintaining trust and governance. Unity Layer transforms the way your organization treats data by making the experience human-centric and putting business users in the driver’s seat.

Agentic analysis: Simply ask your data question

Our advanced Text-to-SQL agents allow any user to query complex data in plain English and receive instant and interactive answers. This conversational interface empowers every employee to be an analyst, freeing up your data team for strategic, high-impact projects.

AI-powered data catalog

The first step to analysis is knowing what data you actually have. We massively reduce the time wasted searching for, documenting, and understanding data assets. Our AI-powered data catalog provides analysts and governance teams with immediate clarity on data context, definition, and location, accelerating discovery and understanding for every project.

Seamless collaboration

Unity Layer is built for teamwork. Share your analysis, co-create insights, and align decisions across departments effortlessly, without ever leaving the platform. This built-in collaboration ensures that insights are easily sharable and not trapped in silos.

The future of analytics is here. It’s conversational

Self-service analytics was always promised but never delivered. Now, with conversational analytics and BI we can make it a reality. We believe every employee, regardless of their technical ability, deserves to be a data-driven decision-maker. Unity Layer is the key to unlocking that potential, transforming business teams into data superheroes and increasing the overall speed of the organization.

Unity Layer will redefine how your company interacts with data.