Claude Sheets and Whiteboards launch in beta, Data goes GA

Anthropic on November 10 began rolling out Claude Whiteboards and Claude Sheets in beta on all paid plans, and turned its Dashboards product into a generally available one under a new name, Claude Data, per Anthropic’s announcement. On Enterprise plans Claude Data switches on by default on November 19, 2026, while Whiteboards and Sheets stay off until an admin enables them in Organization settings > Artifacts; on Team plans all three are on from the start.

During the Dashboards beta, the feature stayed off on Enterprise until an Owner turned it on in the organization’s settings. An Enterprise org that never enabled Dashboards will therefore have Claude Data on for its users from November 19 unless an admin changes the setting before then. Anthropic says these settings can be changed at any time. Claude Data also needs a data connector, such as a warehouse or a CRM, before it does anything.

Claude Data after the beta

Dashboards launched in beta in October, connecting to Amazon Redshift, BigQuery, ClickHouse, Databricks and Snowflake. Claude writes a SQL query for each chart, and every chart shows its query and when its data was last refreshed. Anthropic renamed it because the way companies use their data is broader than dashboards. The GA release adds:

• Certified definitions (beta): a data team certifies the queries everyone should use, and charts built on those metrics carry a “certified” badge.
• Live sharing (beta): colleagues opening a shared dashboard see current numbers even without access to the connectors behind it. They see results, not the underlying data, and can run only the queries the owner approved.
• Data stories and narrated videos drafted from metrics, for review before sharing.
• Caching, with refresh cadence set per dashboard. Previously every dashboard reloaded on every load.
• Tracked changes, showing who edited what, with rollback to a specific version.
• Support for design systems.

Partners for Claude Data are Amplitude, Mixpanel, Omni, PostHog and Sigma.

How far does Sheets go?

Claude Sheets generates spreadsheets with tabs, formulas, formatting and drop-downs, often from a single prompt such as a campaign tracker or a hiring budget. Claude edits directly in cells and outlines each edit so changes can be tracked, and sheets can be shared with the team for joint work. Anthropic describes the current feature set as simple spreadsheet functionality and says more is coming. For full Excel features the options it names are export to .xlsx or CSV, Claude for Excel, or moving the work into Airtable, Asana, monday.com or Smartsheet.

Whiteboards is a shared board where a team brainstorms with Claude. Claude can turn a spoken, messy plan into a board with a timeline, owners and dates, or group retro notes by theme and draft action items per person. Dragging a box around part of the board scopes questions to that area. A finished board can become a doc or deck, or go to Lucid, Miro or Vani by Zoho.

Anthropic’s pitch is that Claude carries the same context across these formats, so an idea can move from a whiteboard to a spreadsheet to a dashboard without restating the details. The new types sit next to the existing docs, slide decks and designs, and Claude Motion, still in beta, which turns content into short animations.

Connectors and admin controls

Interactive connectors now open partner apps as full tools beside the conversation or in full screen, so work in Adobe, Atlassian, Box and Notion can be done by hand or handed to Claude. Plugins from Salesforce (beta), NetSuite and Workday (beta) ship with built-in skills for sales call prep, financial analysis, and time off and expenses. Claude Marketplace lists more than 9,000 connectors and plugins, community-built ones included.

Claude auto-connect, in beta on eligible Team and Enterprise plans, makes connecting an app like Notion, Atlassian or Dropbox a one-time setup: employees are connected the first time they use the tool in Claude. Claude works within existing permissions either way, and admins can restrict what each connector does, so Claude might read Slack but not send messages. On Enterprise, admins also decide who can use which products and connectors and set granular spend limits; security teams get audit logs and a Compliance API that works with more than 100 tools, including Splunk and CrowdStrike; and each cloud session in the new Claude experience runs in its own isolated virtual machine, with connector credentials kept outside it.

Availability varies by source. Anthropic’s rollout post on X lists web and desktop and warns that not every feature will appear right away, while the product page says Whiteboards, Sheets and Data work on web, desktop and mobile. Claude Meetings, which would join a call to take notes and update the team’s documents during it, is listed as coming soon.

Inside Anthropic, the legal team used Claude to build a Slack-based review tool that drafts redlines from its own playbook, which cut marketing reviews from three days to 24 hours.