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CData Japan sets launch event for early-access AI gateway

CData Japan will hold an online launch event for Connect AI Gateway on December 3. The product, introduced in the U.S. in September, manages AI access to business systems and routes requests to models.

AI.info Team · · fact-checked · against 7 sources ↓ · Published 12 Nov 2026

CData Japan will hold a free online launch event on December 3 for Connect AI Gateway, a product that manages AI access to business systems and routes requests to models.

The gateway connects AI to systems including SAP, NetSuite, Salesforce and kintone. CData introduced the product in the United States on September 29 and made it available through an early-access program.

Connecting AI to business data

The gateway is built on CData's connectors for applications, databases, data warehouses, on-premises systems and legacy environments. It can bring in company knowledge such as metric definitions, business terminology and existing semantic models alongside information about connected systems.

Approved corrections can be reused as context by authorized agents and users. The product also manages existing customer servers using Model Context Protocol, or MCP, under the same policy as its own connected tools.

Agents operate with the access granted to their users, with policy applied to models, tools and data. Changes are checked against the connected system's business rules before they are committed, while an audit trail records the prompt, model, tool and policy behind an answer.

Routing and costs

For cost management, the gateway filters, joins and aggregates data at the source and routes requests to models. Spending can be attributed and budgeted by team, agent, model and tool.

Context is kept in a portable graph outside any model or data platform. If a model provider fails, requests can move to another provider with that context intact.

The Japanese event will include a demonstration of the gateway, a reference architecture using CData Sync and CData Arc, and interviews with five launch partners about business and solution applications. A recording is planned for distribution afterward.

Company test results

In an earlier accuracy evaluation, CData reported that Connect AI returned correct responses on 67 of 68 queries, or 98.5%, while the other providers ranged from 65% to 75%. The evaluation covered customer relationship management, project management, data warehouse and enterprise resource planning systems.

In a later company benchmark, 27 models from 12 developers ran three governed-data tasks across customer relationship management, warehouse and IT service management systems, for 810 runs. CData reported that agents completed 83% of tasks correctly through its gateway, compared with 36% through an open-source MCP gateway.

The company put the model cost per correct task, including failed runs, at $0.26 for its gateway and $5.67 for the open-source gateway. The later test used synthetic datasets designed to mirror enterprise systems and had no independent third-party verification; its results may not represent live production performance.