This fall, we're excited to introduce powerful new capabilities that transform how you build your data models, share insights, and interact with your data. Here's what's new.
🤖 AI Widget: Your Dashboard Storyteller
Dashboards shouldn't just show data—they should tell you what it means. The AI Widget generates summaries and insights directly on your dashboards. It uses natural language to explain what your data shows and suggests next steps.
What you can do:
- Add AI-powered narrative widgets to any dashboard with a single click
- Get quick summaries of dashboard content in natural language
- Receive actionable insights and recommendations based on your metrics
- Customize prompts to focus on specific business questions
- Generate fresh narratives as your data updates
The AI Widget leverages Cube's semantic layer to ensure every insight is grounded in your governed data definitions—no hallucinations, just accurate analysis you can trust.
🌐 Dashboard Embedding: Analytics Everywhere
You can now embed dashboards into other tools and applications via iframe. This lets you share analytics across your organization while maintaining security and governance through the semantic layer.
What's new:
- Embed complete dashboards via iframe with full interactivity
- Maintain security and governance through your semantic layer
- Provide consistent metrics across all embedded analytics
- Enable self-service insights without leaving existing tools
Whether you're building internal portals, customer-facing applications, or collaborative workspaces, embedding ensures everyone works from the same source of truth.
Learn more about dashboard embedding →
📓 Workbooks Updates
We've improved the visualization layer in Workbooks to give you more control over the details. The workbook agent builds analysis through natural language, and you can refine the results manually.
Enhanced visualization control:
- Granular field management: Directly adjust which fields appear in your analysis
- Advanced filter controls: Fine-tune filters at the query level for precise data slicing
- Complete chart customization: Control colors, labels, axes, and visual styling
- Flexible layout options: Arrange and size visualizations exactly as you envision
- Query-level modifications: Edit the underlying query when the AI gets close but not quite right
Why this matters:
Not every insight needs to be perfect on the first try. With enhanced workbooks, you can ask the AI to "show me sales by region with year-over-year comparison," let it build the foundation, then adjust the color scheme to match your brand, refine the date range, or swap in a different dimension—all without starting over.
This design philosophy recognizes that the best analytics comes from collaboration between human expertise and AI speed. The agent gets you 80-90% of the way there instantly; you add the context, nuance, and polish that transforms good analysis into great.
🎨 Enhanced Visualization Capabilities
We've expanded our visualization toolkit with new chart types and customization options that give you complete control over how your data tells its story.
Custom HTML Charts
Build exactly the visualization your data deserves with complete creative freedom. Write custom HTML, CSS, and JavaScript to create bespoke visualizations, integrate third-party libraries, and design branded experiences—all while accessing data through Cube's semantic layer.
Map Charts
Turn location data into geographic intelligence. Visualize metrics across regions and geographies with interactive maps that integrate seamlessly with your dashboard filters and semantic layer.
KPI Chart Enhancements
Three new components transform KPIs from simple numbers into rich performance displays: Progress Indicators for goal tracking, Sparklines for trend visualization, and Rich Text Labels for contextual formatting. Plus improved layouts with granular row height control for precise dashboard design.
What's Next
These updates are part of our broader vision for Agentic Analytics – where dashboards evolve from static reports into intelligent, proactive analytical partners. We're not killing dashboards; we're making them intelligent.
All of these features are available now in Cube. Whether you're building customer-facing embedded analytics, creating internal performance dashboards, or enabling self-service exploration, these updates give you more power, flexibility, and intelligence in every workflow.