Introducing CData Connect AI: Create Enterprise AI that Understands your Business

CData has launched Connect AI, a managed Model Context Protocol platform designed to give AI assistants, agents, workflows, and embedded applications governed, real-time access to more than 300 enterprise data sources. The company argues that many enterprise AI initiatives fail because AI lacks secure access to the structured, interconnected business data held across systems such as Salesforce, Jira, and NetSuite, while existing approaches such as third-party MCP servers, RAG implementations, and custom integrations can introduce security, development, or maintenance challenges. Built on CData’s connectivity infrastructure, Connect AI accesses data in place rather than replicating it, preserves metadata and relationships between business objects, supports both data queries and actions through a unified connection, and inherits source-system role-based permissions with options for additional controls. The platform can be cloud deployed or embedded by independent software vendors, allowing them to offer white-label, self-service connections between customer data and AI features without building and maintaining their own connectors.

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