Demos

AI Filters, Dashboard Performance Reports, Clear Time Filters, Per-User Attributes Page, Our First Spreadsheet App, and More

February 6, 2025

A preposterous 15 demos on the heels of our All Hands week - we had fun and built like crazy:

  • Filtering can be hard - not knowing which field to pick or how to express a complex time grain. Filter AI means filter is as easy as a text box. Work to do here still, but the potential is enormous for changing the way end users build and refine queries.

  • This is the first app bringing together our new spreadsheet functionality alongside core BI use cases to build a real-time, permissioned commissions payment tool for sales ops. Now sellers can see all quoted sales alongside payment structure, with infinite flexibility to control payout structures or bonus via the breadth of a spreadsheet. No more importing and exporting and munging - now everything can be tied back to the sources of truth and update in real time.

  • Modern data teams operate like product teams, tools are delivered, but then need to be monitored and tuned, especially for performance. This is an early look at rich new tools for understanding performance (querying, data movement, rendering, etc) and finding hotspots to improve the end user experience.

  • Time is hard. Everyone in BI has experienced it. Our new filter helper explains what time filters mean in plain language to make it easier.

  • A new per-user page to easily expose all the user attributes for the given account. This makes cloning attributes simple and obviates understanding the full permission set for a given user (sorry IT issues mean no sound on this one).

  • We're still improving themes, now with control for dark/light mode explicitly, and themes that can be tied to visualization color palettes for complete cohesion and control of the visuals.

  • We've taught Blobby how to work with docs. Now users can ask for help building queries or just generally using the application and Blobby can point to resources to get folks unblocked quickly.

  • More work on long-running queries to enable ~unlimited downloads via Omni.

  • We show off a few of the new demo data sets and dashboards

  • We've begun porting some of the AI workflows to Bedrock in AWS (Claude for the curious). This means data never leaves the AWS envelope, reducing sub-processors and app surface area. This also means we can make the deeper AI functionalities available to anyone with more strict security postures (sorry IT issues mean no sound on this one).

  • New shortcuts for bulk dash layout changes - now tiles can zip to the top or bottom without the drag-rearrange challenges on longer dashboards.

  • Sarah again shows off the possibilities for building pixel perfect, rich layouts in Omni using modern web techniques. Next step will be markdown templates to easily import these approaches.

  • We prettied up the login page, making sure the app is staying as fresh as all the new code we're shipping.

  • New APIs for importing Omni models across environments or connections. Important tools for the most complex deployments.

  • Some new tools (first internal, later external) to share out more detail on fresh code landing in product.

AI Filters

Filtering can be hard - not knowing which field to pick or how to express a complex time grain. Filter AI means filter is as easy as a text box. Work to do here still, but the potential is enormous for changing the way end users build and refine queries.

Gustav StapransGustav StapransSteven TalbotSteven TalbotAi, Filters

Commissions App

This is the first app bringing together our new spreadsheet functionality alongside core BI use cases to build a real-time, permissioned commissions payment tool for sales ops. Now sellers can see all quoted sales alongside payment structure, with infinite flexibility to control payout structures or bonus via the breadth of a spreadsheet. No more importing and exporting and munging - now everything can be tied back to the sources of truth and update in real time.

Arielle StrongArielle StrongRichard CzechowskiRichard CzechowskiKimberly DelSignoreKimberly DelSignoreBrian FrantzBrian FrantzSpreadsheets, Dashboards

Dashboard Performance Reports

Modern data teams operate like product teams, tools are delivered, but then need to be monitored and tuned, especially for performance. This is an early look at rich new tools for understanding performance (querying, data movement, rendering, etc) and finding hotspots to improve the end user experience.

Nancy ChackoNancy ChackoNate AgrinNate AgrinAdministration, Dashboards

Time Filters That Explain Themselves

Time is hard. Everyone in BI has experienced it. Our new filter helper explains what time filters mean in plain language to make it easier.

Cathy LennonCathy LennonTJ BanghartTJ BanghartFilters, Workbook, Dashboards

User Attributes Page

A new per-user page to easily expose all the user attributes for the given account. This makes cloning attributes simple and obviates understanding the full permission set for a given user (sorry IT issues mean no sound on this one).

Chris MerrickChris MerrickRob MillerRob MillerAdministration

Themes - Now with Chart Palettes and Dark Mode Control

We're still improving themes, now with control for dark/light mode explicitly, and themes that can be tied to visualization color palettes for complete cohesion and control of the visuals.

Luke BowermanLuke BowermanAlisa TatarinovaAlisa Tatarinova

Docs AI

We've taught Blobby how to work with docs. Now users can ask for help building queries or just generally using the application and Blobby can point to resources to get folks unblocked quickly.

James OstergaardJames OstergaardJiro WisemanJiro WisemanDocs, Ai

Unlimited Downloading

More work on long-running queries to enable ~unlimited downloads via Omni.

Jonathan SwensonJonathan SwensonMeredith DodgeMeredith DodgeScheduling

New Demos

We show off a few of the new demo data sets and dashboards

Elizabeth SchulerElizabeth SchulerAdrien BeaufilsAdrien BeaufilsJess GainesJess GainesWill SavageWill Savage

AI on AWS Bedrock

We've begun porting some of the AI workflows to Bedrock in AWS (Claude for the curious). This means data never leaves the AWS envelope, reducing sub-processors and app surface area. This also means we can make the deeper AI functionalities available to anyone with more strict security postures (sorry IT issues mean no sound on this one).

Chris MerrickChris MerrickAi

Dash Tiles Swap to Top or Bottom

New shortcuts for bulk dash layout changes - now tiles can zip to the top or bottom without the drag-rearrange challenges on longer dashboards.

Eli CohenEli CohenElliot ParkElliot Park

Pretty Markdown Dash

Sarah again shows off the possibilities for building pixel perfect, rich layouts in Omni using modern web techniques. Next step will be markdown templates to easily import these approaches.

Sarah WatersonSarah WatersonDashboards, Visualization

New Login Page

We prettied up the login page, making sure the app is staying as fresh as all the new code we're shipping.

Jared HardyJared HardyDesign

Model Import APIs

New APIs for importing Omni models across environments or connections. Important tools for the most complex deployments.

Conrad SlimmerConrad SlimmerCorey RudermanCorey RudermanAdministration, Modeling

Docs Changelog in Omni

Some new tools (first internal, later external) to share out more detail on fresh code landing in product.

Erin CochranErin CochranDocs