Connecting GenSpark with Sage Intacct Data via CData Connect AI MCP Server
GenSpark is built for developers and enterprise teams who want to create intelligent, conversational AI experiences powered by real-time data. It's flexible tooling and agentic capabilities make it easy to integrate LLMs, automate complex workflows, and build interactive applications that adapt to user intent. However, when these AI interactions require data beyond local context or predefined APIs, many implementations fall back on custom middleware, manual integrations, or scheduled ETL pipelines to sync information into local stores. This introduces unnecessary complexity, increases maintenance overhead, slows response times, and limits the real-time intelligence your GenSpark agents can provide.
CData Connect AI eliminates these barriers by delivering live, secure connectivity to more than 300 enterprise applications, databases, ERPs, and analytics platforms. Through CData Connect AI remote Model Context Protocol (MCP) Server, GenSpark agents can query, read, and act on real-time enterprise data without replication or custom integration code. The result is grounded, accurate responses, faster reasoning, and automated, cross-system decision-making all with stronger governance and fewer moving parts.
This guide outlines the steps required to configure CData Connect AI MCP connectivity, register the MCP Server in GenSpark, and enable your GenSpark agents to work seamlessly with live enterprise data in real time.
About Sage Intacct Data Integration
CData provides the easiest way to access and integrate live data from Sage Intact. Customers use CData connectivity to:
- Access Sage Intacct without worrying about API updates or changes.
- Access custom objects and fields in Sage Intacct with no extra configuration steps involved.
- Write data back to Sage Intacct using embedded Web Services credentials with Basic authentication.
- Use SQL stored procedures to perform functional operations like approving or declining vendors, inserting engagements, and creating or deleting custom objects or fields.
Users frequently integrate Sage Intact with analytics tools such as Tableau, Power BI, and Excel, and leverage our tools to replicate Workday data to databases or data warehouses.
To learn about how other customers are using CData's Sage Intacct solutions, check out our blog: Drivers in Focus: Accounting Connectivity.
Getting Started
Prerequisites
Before starting, ensure you have:
- A CData Connect AI account
- Access to GenSpark
- Access to Sage Intacct
Credentials checklist
Ensure you have these credentials ready for the connection:
- USERNAME: Your CData email login
- PAT: Connect AI, go to Settings and click on Access Tokens (copy once)
- MCP_BASE_URL: https://mcp.cloud.cdata.com/mcp
Step 1: Configure Sage Intacct connectivity for GenSpark
Connectivity to Sage Intacct from GenSpark is made possible through CData Connect AI Remote MCP. To interact with Sage Intacct data from GenSpark, we start by creating and configuring a Sage Intacct connection in CData Connect AI.
- Log into Connect AI, click Sources, and then click Add Connection
- Select "Sage Intacct" from the Add Connection panel
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Enter the necessary authentication properties to connect to Sage Intacct.
To connect using the Login method, the following connection properties are required: User, Password, CompanyId, SenderId and SenderPassword.
User, Password, and CompanyId are the credentials for the account you wish to connect to.
SenderId and SenderPassword are the Web Services credentials assigned to you by Sage Intacct.
- Click Save & Test
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Navigate to the Permissions tab in the Add Sage Intacct Connection page and update the User-based permissions.
Add a Personal Access Token
A Personal Access Token (PAT) is used to authenticate the connection to Connect AI from GenSpark. It is best practice to create a separate PAT for each service to maintain granularity of access.
- Click on the Gear icon () at the top right of the Connect AI app to open the settings page.
- On the Settings page, go to the Access Tokens section and click Create PAT.
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Give the PAT a name and click Create.
- The personal access token is only visible at creation, so be sure to copy it and store it securely for future use.
With the connection configured and a PAT generated, we are ready to connect to Sage Intacct data from GenSpark.
Step 2: Configure MCP Server in GenSpark
- Log in to GenSpark
- Below the chat interface, click the Tools icon
- Select Add new MCP server
Fill in the server configuration:
NOTE: Use Basic authentication, where you combine your Connect AI email address (e.g. [email protected]) with the PAT you generated earlier (e.g. AbC123...xYz890) with a colon (:) in the Authorization header.
Field Value Name CData MCP Server (or any name you prefer) Server Type SteamableHttp Server URL https://mcp.cloud.cdata.com/mcp Request Header {"Authorization": "Basic [email protected]:AbC123...xYz890"} - Click Add Server
Once added, GenSpark will automatically load all MCP tools exposed through your Connect AI workspace.
Step 3: Query data in GenSpark
In GenSpark chat interface enter any sample prompt:
List the tools present in CData Connect AI MCP Server.
Build real-time, data-aware agents with GenSpark and CData
GenSpark and CData Connect AI together enable intelligent, AI-driven workflows where agents can securely access live enterprise data and operate with real-time awareness without ETL pipelines, data sync jobs, or custom integration logic. This streamlined approach delivers stronger governance, lower operational overhead, and faster, more grounded responses from your AI tools.
Start your free trial today to see how CData can empower GenSpark with live, secure access to 300+ external systems.
