CData Unified Platform

Transform your data infrastructure into a unified foundation for analytics and AI

Powered by the industry-leading CData Connectivity Engine, the CData Platform offers a secure, agile bridge to deliver governed data for humans and AI agents. Whether legacy, hybrid, or cloud-native, the platform meets you where you are and scales as you modernize.

CData Unified Platform

The all-in-one data foundation—intelligent, secure, performant

Modern organizations need a data foundation that serves everyone from data teams to business users, without creating IT headaches or having to rip and replace what already works. The CData Platform brings these needs together in three core layers—each powered by the Connectivity Engine—within a modular architecture that runs on-premises, in the cloud, or embedded in your product. You can start with the module that solves your immediate challenge and expand as your architecture evolves.

Empower analysts and business leaders with instant, live access to the data they need in the tools they already use. With the broadest and deepest Connectivity Engine in the market, teams gain consistent, high-performance access to hundreds of legacy, modern, and cloud-native sources—meeting organizations at every stage of maturity.

Learn about the Business Insights Layer

Define once, use everywhere. The CData Connectivity Engine ensures these semantic definitions apply universally, no matter the underlying source. This gives your organization a consistent, trusted source of truth that blends across data sources to align metrics and definitions for data consumers—whether human or AI.

Learn about the Universal Semantic Layer

Extend secure, governed data access to copilots, AI agents, and frameworks like Langchain or CrewAI. Scalably connect enterprise data to the next generation of intelligence.

Learn about the AI Connectivity Layer
Semantic Layer

Trusted by data, analytics, and AI leaders worldwide

Global enterprise scale:

7,000+ organizations, from Fortune 500s to leading technology companies, standardize on the CData Connectivity Engine—powering over 60 trillion queries for data owners and consumers around the world.

Embedded trust:

Over 2,000 commercial applications are powered by CData connectivity, extending governed access to enterprise data for millions of end-users worldwide. Leading software companies like Google, SAP, and Palantir embed CData to expand the data their customers can reach, proving the platform's reliability and performance at scale.

Real outcomes:

Enterprises like NJM Insurance, Office Depot, and Holiday Inn have transformed their data strategies with CData—reducing time-to-insight by up to 90%, cutting integration timelines from months to weeks, and lowering project costs by 66%. CData establishes a governed data foundation for AI and powers use cases from predictive analytics to clinical diagnostics.


See how leading enterprises drive results with CData

Google
SAP
Palantir
Zebra
Salesforce
UiPath
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Office Depot
Google
SAP
Palantir
Zebra
Salesforce
UiPath
GSK
Office Depot
Data governance

Governance & security built into your data foundation

  • Governance-first architecture: CData embeds governance at every layer of the platform—from connectivity through the Semantic Layer to the consumption layer.
  • Standardized semantics, consistent truth: The CData Semantic Layer enforces governance across every virtualized view. This ensures every consumer, whether human or AI, works from the same trusted, policy-compliant data.
  • AI-ready security: CData AI Connectivity enforces role-based access, contextual permissions, and full auditability—enabling copilots and agents to safely act on enterprise data with governed write-backs.

Real outcomes, powered by the CData Platform

  • Live analytics, without months of data engineering: Deliver insights directly from ERP, CRM, or operational apps without lengthy integration projects, so teams can act on live data as business events unfold.
  • Data-driven culture with unified KPIs: Blended views across CRM, ERP, support, telemetry, and finance reduce misalignment, accelerate decision-making, and ensure every team operates from the same trusted metrics.
  • From reactive to proactive decision-making: CDC-powered data recency keeps dashboards continuously fresh with up-to-the-minute insights, enabling organizations to anticipate customer needs, adjust operations, and respond to market changes before they become problems.
  • Secure data assets while enabling AI: Copilots, chat interfaces, and autonomous agents gain governed, contextualized access to enterprise data, so businesses can embrace AI confidently without sacrificing control.
See common use-cases for CData
Data operations
Data teams

Delivering value across the organization

  • IT & Data Architecture: Reduce tool sprawl with one platform for virtualization, CDC, batch, and live data access. Centralize governance while enabling self-service.
  • Analytics, BI and Business Users: Standardize metrics and enable conversational analytics on live data for faster insight cycles.
  • Executive Teams: Access a single source of truth with unified, real-time KPIs across departments. Build confidence in board-level reporting and enable faster, more strategic decision-making powered by governed insights.
  • Data Engineering: Spend less time building and maintaining shaky custom-code pipelines; mix live and replicated data access patterns where each fits best.
  • AI & Application Teams: Ship copilots and agents faster with drop-in connectivity to rich, up-to-date, contextualized enterprise data and safe write-backs to operational systems.

Connect to consume: How the CData Platform works

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Connect

Direct, high-performance connectivity to hundreds of enterprise systems across hybrid and multi-cloud environments—databases, SaaS, data lakes, files, and APIs.

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Model

Turn complex data into a common business language. The platform automatically unifies definitions, metrics, and relationships with AI-assisted modeling and natural language pipelines.

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Consume

Serve live data to BI tools, spreadsheets, workflows, services, and AI agents—with row/column-level security, auditability, and policy enforcement intact.

Get started with the CData Platform

See how the CData platform can standardize access, align semantics, and safely power AI—without re-architecting everything at once.