Time for traditional BI vendors to "pass the baton"

The shouts from the back of the BI room seem to be getting louder. In various ways, they're saying let Big BI die.

Former TDWI education director Dave Wells, visual analytics critic Stephen Few, and Tableau Software CEO Christian Chabot are back there. Others, too.

Last spring, Wells proposed a new, people-centric definition of business intelligence. (See