AI Flexibility by Design: The Connect AI August Release

CData’s August release for Connect AI expands the platform’s administration, security monitoring, agent workflows, and contextual guidance while positioning it as governed infrastructure that can operate across existing enterprise AI and technology stacks. The new Management API enables programmatic management of users, SCIM-synced groups, roles, workspaces, connections, and personal access tokens, allowing organizations to automate provisioning and incorporate administration into existing tools and CI/CD processes. SIEM integration sends immutable audit events to Datadog and Splunk HEC through configurable webhooks, enabling security teams to apply established monitoring and correlation rules to Connect AI activity. File Transfer adds bidirectional document movement between AI agents and systems such as Jira, Salesforce, SharePoint, and Box using short-lived pre-signed URLs, with file contents transferred directly through blob storage rather than the model context. Custom instructions let administrators add organization-specific rules, naming conventions, and business context at workspace or connection levels, which are merged with base source instructions to help agents query data more accurately.

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