For more than a decade, enterprise teams bought into the promise of business intelligence platforms delivering “decision-making at the speed of thought.” But most discovered the opposite: slow-moving data pipelines, dashboards that gathered dust, and analysts stuck in time-consuming prep work.

Now, Google Cloud thinks it has the fix. It’s investing heavily in AI agents to finally close the gap between data insights and real-world decisions. These tools are designed to work behind the scenes, letting non-technical users ask questions and get real answers fast. It’s a shift that could redefine data jobs across industries, pushing analysts toward more strategic roles as AI takes on the grunt work.

At the Cloud Next Tokyo conference, Google unveiled a wave of specialized AI agents under its

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