Connect AI for Analytics
Power your BI and analytics workflows with live, governed data connectivity
Connect your BI and analytics tools directly to the live data in your business systems—so your dashboards and reports are always accurate, always fresh, and always secure.
Get StartedNever second-guess your reports and dashboards again with live, connected data
Connect your BI tools directly to your live data sources, giving your teams fresh, governed, and query-ready data without the complexity of ETL or custom pipelines.
With direct data connection to your CRM, ERP, accounting system, and more via CData to BI & analytics platforms, automations, and more. Make decisions with confidence when your dashboards and reports always reflect the latest, most accurate data—no stale extracts, no manual refreshes.
Real-time executive dashboards
Combine CRM, ERP, and marketing data for instant KPI tracking.
Operational analytics
Empower teams to act faster with governed access to operational systems.
Finance & FP&A analytics
Close faster with always-current accounting and payroll data.
Marketing performance dashboards
Monitor campaigns with live HubSpot, GA4, and Salesforce data.
— Nathan Thompson, VP Finance, Scorpion
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Skip the complex data integration
Pre-built connections for any need
No/low code user interface
Blend data with virtual datasets
Data access made easy
Line of business users
You have the business context around what data means and how it should be used. With Connect Cloud, you have the power to find, use, and connect that data where you need it.
- No more waiting for weeks on data requests for the data you need where you need it
- Get back to work in the analytics tools and spreadsheets you're familiar with
“To me, the last thing you want to do is constantly be downloading files to your computer… What I love about Connect Cloud is that none of the data is stored in your systems. It enabled me to use SQL to directly access ADP data when we need.”
— Nathan Thompson
Scorpion, VP Financial Planning and Analysis
Engineering and IT users
Clear out your data request backlog with a secure and governed data layer that business users can understand and use themselves.
- Granular source-level access controls and logging ensures that your data is protected and accessed only by the right users
- Live data connections eliminate the need for intermediary databases and data warehouses
“CData Connect Cloud connects our Tableau to Google Analytics, Google Ads, and Salesforce. I have all these things all in one place with no upkeep on my end... Being able to offer something like this to a marketing person where they don't have to work very hard to get the data they want without relying on someone like me to drag it out is huge.”
— Paul Summitt
Belden, D&A IT Supervisor
Get the data you need without waiting on IT tickets
Easily setup 270+ connectors to the systems with your data
With our broad connector library, you can connect instantly to wherever your data lives, from customer data, financial transactions, or even shipping logistics — directly into your analytics tool of choice.
Easy to use user interface with no code required
It's easy and intuitive to connect your data without waiting for a technical expert. Build rich, real-time reports that tell the whole story — not just a slice.
Live data connections for real-time decision-making wherever you work
Power your favorite dashboards and reports with the latest data
When insights depend on the freshest data that's changing by the minute or by the hour, make sure your dashboards and analytics can keep up whether it's a Power BI dashboard, Tableau report, or even Excel spreadsheet.
Trust your insights and intelligence again
With live data connections that update in real-time, you can feel confident that the data you see is as up to date as it can be, powering the decisions that drive your business.
Powerful real-time automations for advanced users
Customize connections to automation platforms in minutes
Build real-time processes and automations to Microsoft Power Apps, data integration platforms like ETL/ELT and iPaaS, and other flows that run based on data changes.
Automate on your schedule
Connect Cloud makes it easy to trigger automations the second data updates in source systems. Or, set queries to run on a schedule. Let Connect Cloud maintain and scale these connections, letting you focus on other projects instead of pushing data back and forth to maintain automations.
Get IT approval for CData Connect
Use our pre-written email template to quickly get IT approval and start your Connect Cloud trial with confidence.
Why connected AI with CData?
Rich, live data models connected to AI straight from the source by CData, the data connectivity experts with over 10 years of experience and 7,000+ happy customers
Get started in minutes, and pay as you go
No installation required Get started in minutes completely on the web, no complicated data pipelines or deployments required. Just grant access to source systems, connect to AI, and start querying right away.
Get started and keep using connected AI with a paid plan No lengthy sales process or enterprise contract required — start in minutes, connect your data, and use forever with paid plans starting at $79 / month.
Let your LLM use language it understands to talk to your data
Comprehensive data access through a standardized SQL layer CData Connectors create a standardized SQL layer on every data source so LLMs can inherently produce richer and faster answers from your source system with CData MCP Servers.
A universal toolset for every object within every source We've designed a universal set of MCP tools that covers any read/write request across every entity in a given source system. That toolset applies universally across source systems so if you've learned it once, you've learned it 350 times.
Performance optimized for efficient AI response times
Query pushdown for efficient processing Instead of processing large, complex requests in Connect AI, our connectors have query pushdown to minimize client side-usage and API throughput, parallel paging for high-speed data retrieval, and streaming mode for low-memory querying of large datasets.
Comprehensive operations to optimize for speed We support both read and write operations, including bulk inserts, updates, and deletes to optimize for speed with any LLM. Less time spent watching your AI flash 'generating a response' with a spinning wheel.
Prioritize enterprise security and governance
Access data without moving it Connect AI access data in-place — never moving it from its source system. This respects the user's credentials in the source system and only allows data access within their assigned permissions.
Respect the access and security protocols assigned to every user Users authenticate with their own credentials using the source's most trusted form of authentication to connect to the AI client. This ensures AI access respects the security and permissions your organization has already put in place.
Built-in support for:
- OAuth flows
- SSO providers (Okta, Azure AD)
- Kerberos (enterprise security environments)
- Basic authentication (API keys, username/password)
Also access data from AI, spreadsheets, and more
Connect data to AI assistants, copilots, and agents for real-time context and improved answers from AI based on your data.
Connect real-time data to Excel and Google Sheets instead of manually exporting and importing.
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