The Definitive Guide for Linking SAP HANA to Claude

CData Connect AI can link SAP HANA with Claude through the Model Context Protocol (MCP), enabling Claude Desktop, Claude Code, and Claude Agent SDK to inspect metadata and run governed queries against live HANA data without replicating it to vector stores or ETL-managed copies. The platform serves as an intermediary for authentication, access control, query translation, auditing, and query pushdown, allowing joins, filters, and aggregations to execute within HANA while retaining database-level permissions. Setup involves configuring a HANA connection with a dedicated least-privilege service account, validating network connectivity and credentials, deploying an MCP endpoint, and registering it with the selected Claude environment. Suggested applications include conversational business intelligence, automated finance, sales, and inventory reporting, data-quality monitoring, developer analytics workflows, and natural-language operational queries. The guidance emphasizes restricting write access, requiring approval and logging for modifications, separating staging from production, monitoring AI-generated query patterns, and addressing common problems involving credentials, firewall ports, endpoint configuration, and schema permissions.

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