Claude users — including those on the new Claude Opus 4.5 — can now securely read, write and act on 350+ enterprise data systems through CData's managed MCP platform.
IT and data teams are increasingly flooded with requests to talk to data in Claude. Sales wants Claude connected to Salesforce, finance needs it talking to NetSuite, product is asking about Snowflake access. If IT doesn't provide an answer, users find their own way: sharing service accounts, exposing API keys on personal laptops, or just going ahead and accessing company data. Sensitive data flows through connections nobody can audit. By the time security finds out, you're dealing with shadow IT that's already embedded in daily workflows.
Connect AI gives enterprises using Claude a way to say yes to data requests without the risk. Instead of fielding one-off requests and stitching together individual connectors, deploy a single governed MCP platform that scales across users and systems. One layer for connectivity, permission passthrough and governance, and full auditability. Every team gets the data access they're asking for, and IT keeps the control the business requires.
To make it even easier for Claude users to deploy Connect AI, we're excited to announce that CData Connect AI is now officially available for Anthropic Claude users in the Anthropic Connector Directory. This integration brings enterprise-grade data connectivity to Claude chat, Claude Desktop, Claude Code, and the Anthropic Agent SDK, enabling organizations to connect their Claude users to live business data across Salesforce, SAP, NetSuite, Snowflake, and hundreds more systems.
Bringing connectivity, context, and control to Claude
Claude – especially with the new ultra-powerful Opus 4.5 model – is increasingly intelligent, but still needs connectivity, context, and control to be successful. Connect AI delivers all three in a turnkey platform.
Connectivity: Every system, one platform
Standard MCP connectors expose raw endpoints and leave Claude to discover the data model at runtime. Connect AI encodes 10+ years of enterprise connector expertise into a pre-mapped semantic layer — every table, field, relationship, and custom object across 350+ systems is ready for Claude before the first query.
The difference: Claude resolves queries correctly the first time. Without pre-mapped connectivity, Claude hallucinates field names, misunderstands relationships, and burns tokens exploring schemas before returning confident but wrong answers..
Context: Smarter answers, smaller token footprint
Every MCP connector you add brings its own toolset that Claude must reason over. Connect ten connectors and Claude is managing hundreds of tools, burning tokens just to figure out which ones to use.
Connect AI takes a different approach: eight universal tools work across all 350+ supported systems. Claude spends less time exploring and more time reasoning — with customers seeing 20-60% reductions in token consumption compared to multi-connector approaches.
This efficiency compounds with Claude Opus 4.5, which uses up to 50% fewer tokens than previous Claude models. Pairing Opus 4.5's efficiency with Connect AI's streamlined context delivery means frontier intelligence without frontier costs.
Control: Your security model, extended to Claude
For IT leaders fielding requests from teams who want Claude connected to production systems, technical capability is only half the challenge. The other half is governance: Who can query what? How do we audit what Claude accessed? How do we prevent credential sprawl?
Passthrough security means Claude's queries inherit each user's existing source system permissions — row-level, field-level, object-level. No service accounts with broad access. No parallel permission models to build and maintain.
Workspace isolation scopes which systems each Claude deployment can access: Finance's Claude sees finance systems; Sales' Claude sees CRM. Complete audit trails capture every Claude query, every user, every result set — exportable to your SIEM with full attribution.
What Opus 4.5 makes possible
Opus 4.5 brings enhanced tool use, extended context windows, and multi-step workflow execution. But those capabilities only compound when the data layer keeps up.
Connect AI is built for how Opus 4.5 actually works — federated queries, efficient tool routing, and governed access that doesn't break mid-workflow. Here's what that looks like in practice.
Multi-step workflows and multi-source context that actually works
Opus 4.5's enhanced context handling means Claude can maintain state across long, complex operations. But adding individual MCP connectors from the Claude library and cross-system queries become brittle chains of sequential calls that Opus 4.5 must orchestrate and stitch together manually.
Connect AI feeds that conversational capability with federated queries across CRM, ERP, and operational systems — so "analyze Q3 pipeline against invoice aging and flag at-risk renewals" executes as a single coherent workflow, not a broken chain of disconnected queries.
Agentic efficiency at enterprise scale
Opus 4.5's new effort parameter lets you dial between speed and depth. Connect AI's query pushdown ensures that efficiency extends to data operations — joins, filters, and aggregations execute at the source, so Claude's reasoning tokens go toward insight, not building data queries.
The result is more efficient agentic intelligence without runaway costs. Along the way, Connect AI secures and governs every data between AI and source systems for confidence that agents only take monitored and defined actions.
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