Data Agents on Top of BI: Who is Dora and What She Can Do with Your Data

A new stage of corporate AI is emerging: data agents that not only write text about data but also find causes, compile reports, and assign tasks. FanRuan's article illustrates the gap between identifying a problem (via BI) and acting on it, which still requires manual work. Dora, a set of digital employees, uses existing BI assets such as data models, metrics, and dashboards to automate this chain. It includes specialized agents: Data Analyst, Report Researcher, Briefing Assistant, and Risk Officer. An example shows how Dora can turn a morning meeting from confusion to immediate problem-solving by monitoring metrics in real time and sending structured summaries. GlowByte adds that data agents inherit the current state of data; if metrics are inconsistent, the agent will give confident but contradictory answers. They recommend agreeing on metric definitions and access rights before deploying an agent.