This October, we're excited to introduce powerful new capabilities that transform how you build your data models, share insights, and interact with your data. From AI-powered dashboard narratives to advanced embedding options, these updates bring intelligence and flexibility to every layer of your analytics stack.
🤖 AI Widget: Your Dashboard Storyteller
Dashboards shouldn't just show data—they should tell you what it means. Our new AI Widget brings narrative-driven intelligence directly into your dashboards, automatically generating summaries, insights, and recommendations from your data.
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.
Why it matters: Transform static dashboards into intelligent, conversational starting points for exploration. Business users get context and clarity without needing to interpret charts, while analysts can quickly communicate findings to stakeholders.
🌐 Dashboard Embedding: Analytics Everywhere
Take your dashboards beyond Cube with our new embedding capabilities. Share governed analytics across your organization by embedding dashboards directly into your internal tools, applications, and workflows.
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: AI-Assisted Exploration Meets Precision Control
Workbooks are where exploration meets presentation, and we've supercharged the visualization capabilities to give you the perfect balance of AI assistance and manual control.
The best of both worlds:
While our workbook agent can rapidly build and update reports through natural language, we've enhanced the visualization layer to give you fine-grained control over every detail when you need it. This hybrid approach means AI handles the heavy lifting of building analysis, while you apply the finishing touches that make insights truly compelling.
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.
🎯 Smarter Dashboard Filters
Dashboard filters just got a major intelligence upgrade. We've reimagined filtering to be more flexible, persistent, and intuitive across your entire dashboard ecosystem.
Filter enhancements:
- Operator selection for date filters: Choose from operators like "before," "after," "between," and "in the last X days" for precise temporal filtering
- Persistent filter values: Your filter selections are automatically saved and restored when you return to a dashboard
- Default filter values: Set intelligent defaults so dashboards open with your most common view
- Smart dimension matching: Filters automatically apply to matching dimensions across all widgets
- Custom dimension mapping: Override automatic matching and choose specific dimensions for each widget
- Granular widget control: Enable or disable filter application on individual report widgets
- Filter validation warnings: Get clear alerts when filters are enabled but no dimension is selected
Why it matters: Filters now work the way you think—intelligently adapting across your dashboard while giving you precise control when you need it.
What's Next
These October 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.
Cube transforms static dashboards into intelligent, conversational analytics experiences—powered by the universal semantic layer that ensures accuracy, governance, and consistency across every interaction.