Anthropic adds Claude Sheets & Whiteboards for business

Anthropic has introduced Claude Sheets, Claude Whiteboards and Claude Data, expanding interactive connectors in Claude. The launch extends Claude's use beyond software development into spreadsheet, whiteboard and data work for business teams.

The new products let users create spreadsheets, digital whiteboards and dashboards inside Claude, while upgraded connectors allow partner applications to run directly within the assistant. Partners can embed their apps in Claude so users can work across services such as Adobe and Atlassian without switching tabs.

Anthropic is also adding pre-built integrations for Salesforce in beta, NetSuite and Workday in beta. These are aimed at tasks such as sales call preparation, financial analysis, and managing time-off or expense processes.

Claude Sheets lets teams work with Claude on spreadsheets, including formulas and multiple tabs. Claude Whiteboards gives teams a shared space to organise ideas during meetings and then ask Claude to summarise the results.

Claude Data, previously called Dashboards, connects to systems including Snowflake and Salesforce. It can use definitions approved by a company's data team to generate dashboards, visual data stories or narrated short videos.

Users can also ask Claude to create custom work tools, including an account tracker, a daily briefing, a project status board or a contract review table. Anthropic's broader pitch is that context can carry across these formats, so work started in one artefact can continue in another without repeated instructions.

Connector push

The connector expansion builds on Anthropic's Model Context Protocol, the open standard it introduced to link AI systems with software tools. Anthropic said its Claude Marketplace now lists more than 9,000 connectors and plugins, including community-built options.

For companies, the connector strategy is closely tied to administration and oversight. On enterprise plans, administrators can decide which users can access specific products and connectors, and can set detailed spending limits.

The same controls apply to connected tools. Administrators can also restrict what a connector is allowed to do, so Claude could be permitted to read messages in Slack, for example, but blocked from sending them.

Anthropic is also offering Claude auto-connect in beta for eligible Team and Enterprise plans. The feature allows an organisation to set up a service such as Notion, Atlassian or Dropbox once, after which employees are connected when they first use the tool in Claude rather than linking each app themselves.

Internal use

Anthropic pointed to internal use cases as evidence that Claude is moving beyond technical teams. Its legal team built a Slack-based legal review tool with Claude that automatically generates redlines from the team's own playbook.

According to Anthropic, that cut marketing review times from three days to 24 hours, with simple fixes made before a lawyer reviews a draft. The finance team, it said, also turned a lengthy executive business update into an interactive page that staff now update together with Claude.

Customer examples

Several customers described similar uses in legal, finance, product management and customer support.

"At Accenture, Claude is helping us transform the way our legal teams work. We're excited about the opportunity to reimagine legal workflows and unlock new ways for our legal professionals to support our business," said Mindy Lok, Chief Technology Officer, Legal, and Chief Intellectual Property Officer at Accenture.

Advantage Solutions described a reduction in time spent assembling finance materials.

"Our FP&A team used to spend about 10 hours every forecast cycle on slides, commentary, and validation. We automated that assembly work in Claude and brought it down to under 30 minutes. Claude took all of that off our plate. Now we're doing what finance is supposed to do: finding the insight and driving the decision. That's a meaningful shift for a team supporting a business of this size," said Ash Gupta, Director of Financial Planning and Analysis at Advantage Solutions.

Datadog linked the product to development work outside engineering.

"At Datadog, Claude has extended from coding to knowledge work. Our product managers are using Claude to move from an idea to a feature brief, PRD, and testable prototype much faster, giving them more time to focus on customer needs, product judgment, and the right problems to solve. When someone builds something good with Claude at Datadog, it spreads fast," said Yanbing Li, Chief Product Officer at Datadog.

HubSpot highlighted customer-facing workflows tied to data inside Claude.

"Claude and HubSpot work seamlessly together, so our CSMs have all the context they need to walk in prepared for every call. Live dashboards in Claude pull from HubSpot to show what matters for each call and which customers to reach out to next, and follow-up emails are drafted within 30 minutes of a call ending. Work that used to take hours every week now runs in the background, so our team can focus on helping customers build better solutions, prove value, and grow better," said Jon Dick, Chief Customer Officer at HubSpot.

Enterprise controls

Anthropic said enterprise data is encrypted in transit and at rest. It also said security teams on enterprise plans can monitor Claude use through audit logs and a compliance API that works with more than 100 security and compliance tools, including Splunk and CrowdStrike.

In the new Claude enterprise experience, each cloud session runs in its own isolated virtual machine, and connector credentials are stored outside it.