Solving for the AI-End-in-Mind with Data Products

Every ambitious analytics initiative – whether it’s demand forecasting, inventory optimization, supply chain risk prediction, or even next-best customer recommendations – should begin with the end in mind. In practice, this means starting with the AI-driven outcome your business wants (forecast accuracy, reduced stockouts, optimized supply planning, etc.) and working backward to ensure the data […]

Translytical Task Flows: Integrating Analytics and Action in Power BI

Translytical Task Flows are a new Power BI feature (currently in public preview as of May 2025) that combine transactional operations with analytical insights, directly within your reports In essence, “translytical” merges transactional and analytical – allowing end-users to not only visualize data but also act on it in real time without leaving the dashboard I’ve set out to describe: what translytical task flows are, why they […]

Create value for your customers with data and the rest will fall behind it

We are in the third age of data. The first was full of preparing data with legacy data warehouses that struggled to provide value beyond surfacing reports about the past. The second was preoccupied with loading data into data lakes. The third needs to be built on outcomes that we are trying to achieve. Not […]

Six Big Things I’m Thinking About

I’m constantly challenging myself to think about what’s next. In a sense it is the only constant in the technology community… that our jobs and lives will continue to be shaped by the powerful opportunity that tech evolution presents. If someone asked, “what do you care about right now?”, I might have a different answer […]

Best of Microsoft BUILD

We took a FAST run through a LOT of content, talking about the best of Microsoft Build.

Cyphercon 2023 Presentation: 5 Architectures Every Tech Exec Should Understand

Thank you for attending my Cyphercon session! I’m excited to have had the opportunity to spend time with you and to talk about how to improve the general security of your environment. You can catch me on LinkedIn or Twitter. Here is a link to the deck for the Cyphercon presentation. Nathan Lasnoski

What to know about Data Privacy and Open AI

Talking about data privacy and what you need to know to safely use Open AI

Using Open AI for Data Mining

Talking about how to use AI as a data mining tool and platform

Teaching Open AI the Language of Your Business

Talking about how to teach Open AI about your business’s unique language.

6 Ways to Know if Your Cloud Environment is Setup Properly

Six Tests to Determine if Your Cloud Environment is Setup Properly I’m asked frequently, “how do I know if there is waste in my cloud environment?” or “how do I know if my cloud environment is following best practices?”. In response, I have six initial tests to evaluate the state of an already deployed cloud […]

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Technology is at the heart of the transformation of modern society and business. I engage in innovation, artificial intelligence, disruption, and ethics under the lense that we only do this because people matter.

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