Anthropic is delivering new features that enable users to complete more work within Claude rather than having to take Claude outputs and move them to another tool or program.
The company this week launched Claude Whiteboards and Claude Sheets in beta, and made Claude Data generally available. Whiteboards is a shared board for brainstorming by teams. Sheets is a spreadsheet that Claude can build and edit with users, while Data adds data stories, queries, and live data sharing.
Before Whiteboards, brainstorming by a team required copying and pasting results elsewhere. With Whiteboards, by contrast, users can work and talk through a plan with Claude, which can turn it into a shared board with a timeline that includes owners and dates so team members can collaborate in real time. Claude enables users to add notes and it can group them by topic and draft action items by person. When the team is done brainstorming, Claude can turn the board into a document or presentation, or bring the output into a collaboration tool.
With the new Sheets, Claude can generate spreadsheets with tabs, formulas, formatting, and drop-downs, often with as little as a prompt, such as asking for a campaign tracker. It can edit in cells with change-tracking capability. When users need full Excel functionality, the file can be exported to Excel or they can use the Claude for Excel add-in.
Claude Data represents the evolution of Claude Dashboards, which launched in beta in October. Users can use Claude Data to ask questions of their company’s data in tools including Amazon Redshift and Google BigQuery. Anthropic said users can utilize Claude Data in a variety of ways:
- Develop certified definitions of metrics so employees don’t end up building or working on dashboards with conflicting data
- Create stories or narrated videos from metrics to review before sharing
- Share current data so employees can see up-to-date numbers when they open a shared dashboard
- Design systems that match the company’s look and feel
- Take advantage of caching to quickly load dashboards that don’t need to reload on every use
- Track changes over time, so users can see who made edits and roll back to a specific version if needed
Claude Whiteboards, Sheets, and Data work on web, desktop, and mobile. Claude Data needs a data connector, such as a connection to a data warehouse or CRM system. On Claude Team plans, Whiteboards, Sheets, and Data are active by default. On Enterprise plans, Claude Whiteboards and Sheets are off by default, and Claude Data turns on by default as of Nov. 19.
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- AI in Financial Services: Anthropic Connects to Core Data Sources, Delivers Industry Skills
- Anthropic Connectors Integrate Google Productivity Apps Natively Into Claude
- Microsoft Expands Purview With Visibility and Control of Anthropic Claude
Tom Smith
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