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The most used BI tool out there, Excel, is self service and it has been so for at least 30 years now. SSBI is not about taking people out, it is about empowering them with the right tools. Tableau, for instance, is nothing more than an Excel 2.0 and nobody I know, not even Tableau salesguys, says we will get all our analytics automagically, very far from that. Every department in Corporations is struggling to find people that are good with data, every department. Also, data analytics comes at the very end, again, nobody is saying your data strategy (blending, complex calcs, etc.) will be autogenerated, this would be crazy talk. You should consider SSBI more like what happened to mainframes and PCs, where the key to success was empowering more and more humans.