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Omni

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Velocity5.0

Business intelligence and embedded analytics platform

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Omni is welding an agentic AI layer onto its BI stack, one weekly release at a time

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◆Current state
Omni ships a real weekly changelog, and the last month is dominated by AI: visualization annotations reaching general availability, an AI Hub and Modeling Agent skills, AI file uploads, and external AI context via Notion. Underneath, the core BI product keeps maturing — calculation pushdown, compute routing, approximate aggregates, dashboard-editor and embedding controls, and a widening API surface.
◆Where it's heading
Two threads run in parallel: an AI/agentic layer moving from preview to GA with access-grant governance, and steady modeling, performance, and embedding work beneath it. Omni is positioning as an embeddable, AI-native BI platform rather than a static dashboard tool, with governance and APIs treated as first-class.
◆Prediction
Expect the AI features that just reached GA — annotations, AI Hub, Modeling Agent — to gain deeper agentic actions and more external-context integrations, alongside continued weekly modeling and embedding improvements.

◆Recent moves

  1. 3d ago

    AccessBoost for Apps, dbt token auth, dashboard filter suggestions

    Extends access controls to the Apps product (AccessBoost), adds HTTPS deploy-token auth for dbt, and surfaces dashboard filter suggestions — incremental hardening of the governance and modeling surfaces.

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  2. 9d ago

    AI visualization annotations GA; apps on by default; Notion AI context

    AI-powered visualization annotations reach GA and new orgs get the Apps platform on by default, while Notion joins as an external AI context source — the AI layer moving from preview toward standard.

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  3. 17d ago

    Dashboard spacers/dividers, AI file uploads, embed display controls

    Adds layout primitives (spacers, dividers), AI file uploads with Notion, and finer embedding display controls — incremental dashboard and embed polish alongside the AI push.

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  4. 17d ago

    Calc pushdown, dynamic top-N, simpler Slack setup, TZ overrides

    Modeling and delivery improvements: calculation pushdown for range references, dynamic top-n parameterization, a simplified Slack integration setup, and timezone overrides in embed URLs.

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  5. 22d ago

    Publish-draft API, approximate aggregates, map viewport config

    Adds a publish-draft document API endpoint, sketch-based approximate aggregates for faster large-scale queries, and map viewport configuration — API and performance-oriented additions.

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  6. 1mo ago

    AI Hub and Markdown columns GA; AI skills with access grants

    AI Hub and Markdown columns reach GA and AI skills gain required access grants — the foundation of Omni's AI layer becoming generally available with governance attached, which the following weeks build on.

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