Mike & Tommy tackle the question of whether Power BI should stay an analytics layer or evolve into an operational one, joined by Mike Zack — former CEO of Acterys, now part of Vena — who has built his career around closing the gap between insight and action. They weigh in on when write-back genuinely belongs in a report, who owns the data once users can change it, and what governance has to exist before you flip that switch.

With AI surfacing signals faster than ever, the real bottleneck may not be the dashboard — it's the disconnected workflow that follows it.

More on Mike Zack and the tools discussed: What's New in Microsoft OneLake | Microsoft & Snowflake's Commitment to Apache | What's New in Fabric Data Factory

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