In a world where finance and procurement are moving into more strategically important positions that drive value for organizations, you absolutely need an effective BI strategy.
The challenge with Big Data continues to center around getting the right information to the right people at the right time, even as information sources and uses grow.
I think this specialization of data teams into 99 different roles (data scientist, data engineer, analytics engineer, ML engineer etc) is generally a bad thing driven by the fact that tools are bad and too hard to use.