The reality is that for apps like these to be effective basically 90% of the real work to aggregate and expose your well defined data lake needs to be done. In my opinion apps like these wow the C-Suite with eye candy while obfuscating the real costs involved with creation of "executive dashboards".
Why don't they start consulting firms? It would require them to try to construct and manage a well defined data lake/warehouse rather than leveraging one for the eye candy win.