Use Claude to Talk to Your SAP Business Warehouse Data via CData Connect AI

Stanley Liu
Stanley Liu
Associate Technical Product Marketer
Leverage the CData Connect AI Remote MCP Server to enable Claude to securely answer questions and take actions on your SAP Business Warehouse data for you.

Claude is a family of advanced large language models (LLMs) built by Anthropic, an AI research company founded in 2021. These models power the Claude conversational assistant and developer tools.

CData Connect AI offers a dedicated cloud-to-cloud interface for connecting to SAP Business Warehouse data. The CData Connect AI Remote MCP Server enables secure communication between Claude and SAP Business Warehouse. This allows you to ask questions and take actions on your SAP Business Warehouse data using Claude, all without the need for data replication to a natively supported database. With its inherent optimized data processing capabilities, CData Connect AI efficiently channels all supported SQL operations, including filters and JOINs, directly to SAP Business Warehouse. This leverages server-side processing to swiftly deliver the requested SAP Business Warehouse data.

Step 1: Configure SAP Business Warehouse Connectivity for Claude

Connectivity to SAP Business Warehouse from Claude is made possible through CData Connect AI Remote MCP. To interact with SAP Business Warehouse data from Claude, we start by creating and configuring a SAP Business Warehouse connection in CData Connect AI.

  1. Log into Connect AI, click Sources, and then click Add Connection
  2. Adding a Connection
  3. Select "SAP Business Warehouse" from the Add Connection panel
  4. Selecting a data source
  5. Enter the necessary authentication properties to connect to SAP Business Warehouse.

    To connect to SAP Business Warehouse, set the URL property to a valid SAP Business Warehouse server base URL. The driver must connect to SAP Business Warehouse instances hosted over HTTP with XMLA access.

    The driver supports the following authentication schemes via the AuthScheme property:

    • None: Anonymous authentication, if available on the server.
    • Basic: Set User and Password and set AuthScheme to Basic.
    • Kerberos: See the Using Kerberos section of the help documentation for the required Kerberos properties.

    By default, the driver attempts to negotiate SSL/TLS by checking the server's certificate against the system's trusted certificate store. To specify another certificate, see the SSLServerCert property for the available formats.

    Configuring a connection (Salesforce is shown)
  6. Click Save & Test

Step 2: Connect Claude to CData Connect AI

Follow these steps to add a CData Connect AI connector in Claude:

  1. Sign in to Claude.ai or create a new account.
  2. Expand the left navigation menu.
  3. In the bottom-left corner, click your user name and select Settings from the menu. The Settings screen appears.
  4. In the Settings screen, click Connectors.
  5. Click the button to Browse Connectors.
  6. Search for "CData Connect AI" and click the listing. Adding CData Connect AI
  7. Click "Connect" and sign into your Connect AI account. Connecting to your Connect AI account
  8. After connecting, Claude opens a new chat.

Step 3: Explore Live SAP Business Warehouse Data with Claude

  1. You can now start exploring your data with natural language prompts. Claude outlines the steps it uses to retrieve data from the source in CData Connect AI. Refer to CData's prompt library for prompt ideas.
  2. Exploring data with Claude

NOTE: Claude's setup process is subject to change. Refer to Claude's documentation for the latest setup information.

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