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With Connect AI, you can unify access to all of the cloud applications, databases, APIs, and services across an organization.

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Key Features

  • Broad Data Connectivity: Connect AI allows you to transform data into a simple language that any reporting tool, analytics dashboard, or spreadsheet can understand. It can connect to a vast range of applications (including those for accounting, marketing, customer relationship management, and more) by using a consistent approach that is already supported by many data tools.
  • Real-Time Data Access: Connect AI gives you access to your data in real time, which creates an agile and flexible work environment that adapts and changes as quickly as your data does. This approach avoids the pitfalls of traditional Extract, Transform, Load (ETL) processes that rely on moving data to separate locations.
  • Create, Read, Update, Delete (CRUD) Support: Read and Write operations are supported. Operations are controlled by security settings that you can configure in Connect AI or in your data sources.
  • Secure Access: Administrators can create query users and define their access permissions for each data source individually.
  • Comprehensive Data Model & Dynamic Discovery: Connect AI provides comprehensive access to all of the data that is exposed in the underlying connections, including full access to dynamic data and searchable metadata.
  • Workspaces: Connect AI provides a sleek way to organize, catalog, and control access to specific data. You can bundle related data items separately in a simple and scalable way with workspaces.
For more information about these key features, see Technology.

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Get Started

For a high-level overview about setting up and using Connect AI, see Quick Start Guide. For more detailed information about the features of Connect AI, see the documentation outlined below:
  • Dashboard—Information about navigating Connect AI and accessing features.
  • Sources—Steps for connecting data sources to Connect AI to make your data available for use.
  • Integrations—Steps for connecting integration tools to Connect AI to access data from your data sources.
  • API—Information about connecting to data via the REST API, OData, and OpenAPI protocols.
  • Virtual Databases—Information about the virtual database feature of Connect AI, including SQL Server.
  • SQL Reference—List of supported SQL syntax and code examples.

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Get Support

For assistance with using Connect AI, there are two main resources available:
  • The Status page, which shows the current status and incident history for the application services.
  • CData Technical Support, which you can also access by clicking the Support link at the bottom of the dashboard.