A lot of conventional BI was focused on 'single player' mode -- basically an analyst running analysis at their computer and maybe dropping that graph into a presentation. This fundamentally limited the usefulness of of BI results (they got stuck in time and rarely updated in) and made follow-ups hard since the graph was no longer connected to the data source.

All the while things like Google Docs and Slack made collaboration around documents and ideas much easier with @mentions, threads, etc.

So BI can be a lot more useful if it is 1\ accessible anywhere (not just desktop or a crappy mobile app) 2\ collaborative -- bringing the mentions, shared questions, and ability to make decisions together 3\ not crazy expensive (looking at your tableau + looker)...because at these high price points the tool ends up not getting offered to everybody, it ends up being more limited in who gets access and hence less useful across a company

Full disclosure, I built Zing Data which is an app for mobile first business intelligence and is free for small teams. Works with PostgreSQL, MySQL, and Google BigQuery. https://www.getzingdata.com/

Would love any feedback folks have -- we're actively improving it and I'm sure this community has a lot of great ideas!