Integrate Devin with Live NetSuite Data Using CData Connect AI
Devin is an AI software engineer from Cognition that plans, writes, and tests code in autonomous sessions. It supports the model context protocol (MCP) through its built-in MCP marketplace, allowing you to install remote MCP servers and give Devin access to external tools and live data sources.
By integrating Devin with CData Connect AI through the built-in MCP Server, Devin gains governed, real-time access to live NetSuite data. You can list catalogs, explore schemas, and query records from NetSuite data using natural language prompts, with all data access running securely against authorized sources.
This article explains how to configure NetSuite connectivity in Connect AI, install the CData Connect AI MCP Server from the Devin MCP marketplace, and verify the integration by querying live NetSuite data from a Devin session.
About NetSuite Data Integration
CData provides the easiest way to access and integrate live data from Oracle NetSuite. Customers use CData connectivity to:
- Access all editions of NetSuite, including Standard, CRM, and OneWorld.
- Connect with all versions of the SuiteTalk API (SOAP-based) and SuiteQL, which functions like SQL, enabling easier data querying and manipulation.
- Access predefined and custom reports through support for Saved Searches.
- Securely authenticate with Token-based and OAuth 2.0, ensuring compatibility and security for all use cases.
- Use SQL stored procedures to perform functional actions like uploading or downloading files, attaching or detaching records or relationships, retrieving roles, getting extra table or column info, getting job results, and more.
Customers use CData solutions to access live NetSuite data from their preferred analytics tools, Power BI and Excel. They also use CData's solutions to integrate their NetSuite data into comprehensive databases and data warehouse using CData Sync directly or leveraging CData's compatibility with other applications like Azure Data Factory. CData also helps Oracle NetSuite customers easily write apps that can pull data from and push data to NetSuite, allowing organizations to integrate data from other sources with NetSuite.
For more information about our Oracle NetSuite solutions, read our blog: Drivers in Focus Part 2: Replicating and Consolidating ... NetSuite Accounting Data.
Getting Started
Step 1: Configure NetSuite connectivity for Devin
Connectivity to NetSuite from Devin is made possible through Connect AI's Remote MCP Server. To interact with NetSuite data from Devin, start by creating and configuring a NetSuite connection in Connect AI.
- Log into Connect AI, click Sources, and then click Add Connection
- Select NetSuite from the Add Connection panel
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Enter the necessary authentication properties to connect to NetSuite.
The User and Password properties, under the Authentication section, must be set to valid NetSuite user credentials. In addition, the AccountId must be set to the ID of a company account that can be used by the specified User. The RoleId can be optionally specified to log in the user with limited permissions.
See the "Getting Started" chapter of the help documentation for more information on connecting to NetSuite.
- Click Save & Test
- Navigate to the Permissions tab and update user-based permissions
With the NetSuite connection configured, Devin can now connect to NetSuite data through Connect AI.
Step 2: Install the Connect AI MCP Server in Devin
Next, install the CData Connect AI MCP Server from the Devin MCP servers list so your sessions can discover and call live data tools through Connect AI.
Note: Installing MCP servers in Devin requires the Manage MCP Servers permission. If you don't have this permission, use the Suggest option or contact your organization admin.
- Log into Devin and navigate to Settings and Connections, then select the MCP servers tab
- Search for CData Connect AI in the marketplace and select the verified listing
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Click Install and enable. When prompted, complete the OAuth flow to authenticate with your Connect AI account
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Once installed, confirm the Enable in sessions toggle is on and click Test tools. Devin validates the connection and lists the available Connect AI tools, such as getCatalogs, getSchemas, getTables, and queryData
With the MCP server installed and enabled, the Connect AI tools are available to every Devin session in your workspace.
Step 3: Query live NetSuite data from Devin
With the integration complete, start a Devin session and interact with live NetSuite data through natural language prompts.
- From the Devin home page, start a new session
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In the session prompt, ask Devin to work with your Connect AI data, for example:
- Can you list the connections in CData Connect AI
- Show the available schemas and tables for NetSuite
- Query the top 5 records from a table in NetSuite
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Devin calls the Connect AI MCP Server and returns live results from NetSuite data directly in the session. You can follow the tool calls, inputs, and outputs in the Progress panel
At this point, Devin communicates with the Connect AI MCP Server and retrieves live NetSuite data through remote MCP tools directly from your sessions, whether you're exploring data, building features against it, or automating engineering tasks.
Get started with CData Connect AI
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