🛠️ Dev Notes: Sisense Updates for Builders (2025.4)
Summary: Maria Ciampa introduces updates to the Sisense platform, highlighting enhancements in the Assistant for better workflow and analytics. Features include a more precise natural language engine, improved session control, and instant semantic publishing. The roadmap hints at upcoming features like left join support, a Sisense-managed LLM service, and email-based two-factor authentication. Feedback is encouraged in the Product Feedback Forum.
Smarter Assistant = Better Workflow
We've unified the Assistant, making it a more powerful tool throughout the entire analytics lifecycle—from data modeling to embedding.
Assistant for Creators (Beta): Lives in its own tab and supports every stage of the build process.
In-Dashboard Assistant (GA): Got a major performance and interface upgrade.
What This Means For You:
NLQ Accuracy Boosted: The natural language engine is refined to give you more precise answers with fewer iterations. Time saved going from question to insight!
Semantic Enrichment with Review: The AI suggests semantics, but the human-in-the-loop workflow is key. You can review, edit, or ditch any AI-generated descriptions before they go live, ensuring metadata quality is never compromised.
Enhanced Session Control: You can now manage dashboard filters, use shortcuts, run multiple chat sessions, and have better control over your chat history. It actually fits your workflow now.
The Bottom Line: This is a truly developer-friendly Assistant that prioritizes speed, transparency, and customization.
Model Management: Instant Updates & AI Integrity
These updates simplify data model maintenance and ensure your models are always optimized for AI features.
Instant Semantic Publishes: Finally! You can now update display names, descriptions, or tags and publish those semantic changes instantly; no more triggering a full data rebuild just for metadata tweaks.
Quality Boost for AI: This instant publish capability keeps your semantic layer pristine. Clean, consistent metadata is the foundation for clearer answers and better performance from the Assistant.
🚀 Roadmap Tease: Coming Soon
We're already deep into Q4 initiatives based on your feedback:
Left Join Support: The highly-requested feature is on the way! This first phase gives you model-level join control for more flexible and precise data relationship modeling.
Sisense-Managed LLM Service: We're building this out so you can power features like the Assistant without needing to bring your own LLM key, simplifying setup and maintaining enterprise security.
Email 2FA: Adding email-based Two-Factor Authentication to strengthen account protection and security across the platform.
Thoughts?
Jump into the Product Feedback Forum and let us know which of these features is going to be the biggest time-saver for your next build!
