Microsoft

Business Analytics in 2026: Welcome to the Agentic Shadow Analytics Era

We've walked into the agentic shadow analytics era. Shadow analytics isn’t new. Excel and Access have played that role for 30 years. What's new is that an LLM coding assistant can carry a non-engineer across the parts of pipeline construction, modeling, ML enrichment and front-end build that used to act as natural gates. The output is a prototype that looks and behaves like software.

Eric Wojcik

Director - Business Platform Transformation