Dashboard AI Assistant (Beta)

Note:

  • This feature is currently in Beta. As such, not all functionality has been added and finalized and is subject to change as fixes and improvements are made.

  • This feature is currently available to our managed cloud customers only.

  • This feature supports multiple tenants, but the system administrator cannot control the AI assistant feature behavior per tenant. All tenants inherit the same behavior.

Sisense includes an AI Assistant for your dashboards, as part of the product, usable via the UI. This feature enables you to explore your data and generate queries through natural language questions powered by AI. The AI Assistant can suggest sample insights, provide narrative explanations in context, and produce data visualizations. The functionality is like that of the AI Assistant (a.k.a. the “Chatbot”) introduced via Compose SDK.

Enabling the Dashboard AI Assistant

In order to use the Dashboard AI Assistant, it must be enabled by an Admin, in the Admin tab, under App Configuration > Sisense Intelligence.

After an Admin has enabled the AI Assistant globally, in order to use this feature for specific dashboards, it must be enabled for each dashboard by the Dashboard Designer. In the Analytics tab, for the relevant dashboard, click > toggle on AI Assistant.

After it is enabled, the AI Assistant button appears in the dashboard menu.

Using the Dashboard AI Assistant

Click AI Assistant to use this feature.

In the AI Assistant, you can type your question in natural language, choose from suggested questions, or type “/” for ideas. After asking your question, an answer, along with an explanation and a chart, are provided.

The results pane provides some options:

  • Enable Dashboard filter to apply the dashboard filters to your results.

  • Click Download to download the results as an image or CSV file.

  • Click Add to Dashboard to add the generated chart as a widget to your dashboard.

Improving the AI Assistant's Results

The AI Assistant is powered by enhancements to the semantic layer, making it AI-ready. These enhancements ensure that the AI Assistant delivers more accurate insights and helps you extract value from your data more intuitively.

Column Descriptions

You can add descriptions to your columns to help the AI Assistant understand their semantic meaning. This is especially useful for columns with unclear names or unpredictable values.

To add a description to a column:

  1. In the Data tab, in the relevant data model, for the relevant column, click > Description.

  2. Type the description in the Add Description field and click.

AI Smart Matching

You can enable AI Smart Matching for specific columns, enabling users to query by value in a column, without needing to know its exact name.

To enable AI Smart Matching:

  1. In the Data tab, in the relevant data model, for the relevant column, click > toggle on AI Smart Matching.

    For columns which have AI Smart Matching enabled, the AI icon is displayed next to the column name.