There are indeed a lot of companies selling expensive pre-packaged data analysis tools and other magic black box solutions at the moment. In my experience most

There are indeed a lot of companies selling expensive pre-packaged data analysis tools and other magic black box solutions at the moment. In my experience most of these are not that great and cost a small fortune. Large enterprises are certainly a sucker for just writing a cheque for bad software so I certainly understand why there was a bunch of VC investment in this space. However I also agree though that this "a tool will solve our problems" approach is vastly out of line with reality so am not surprised many of those firms have seen their valuations slashed recently.