CData Software

08/13/2026

Most AI cost cutting starts with the model: cheaper options, capped usage, better pricing. CData's benchmark found the bigger driver is something else: how much data and tool information the AI has to sift through on every request. Scoping that down cut the cost of a single query from $0.596 to $0.027.

See exactly how the scoping worked, including the full cost breakdown on BigDATAwire:

Enterprise AI budget forecasting is mostly guesswork right now. Most organizations set their initial allocations before they understood how token costs actually accumulate — before multiple teams were running agents, […]

08/11/2026

A lot of companies are racing to put AI into production. Fewer are asking whether their data can support it.

CData just landed its third consecutive year on the Inc. 5000 list of the fastest growing private companies in the U.S., a signal that demand for real data infrastructure behind AI keeps climbing.

Three years on the list. One trend behind it.

08/10/2026

Everyone assumes an underperforming AI project needs a better model. CData's VP of AI Architecture, Amit Naik, says that's rarely the actual problem anymore.

The real risk lives one layer down: whether your systems can get agents the right data, safely, in real time.

08/06/2026

At our booth here at Ai4, the same two theme keep coming up: token optimization and governance.

If that's the conversation your team is having too, we'd love to compare notes.

📍Booth 1536
Ai4 - Artificial Intelligence Conferences

08/04/2026

An AI agent went from making date-math mistakes to configuring 5 Asana tasks correctly with zero corrections, in 8 sessions.

The change wasn't a smarter model. It was 1 governed connection that let exploration and production run on the same access, with no re-authorization step in between.

08/03/2026

Can your team say exactly what it spends on AI? Most can't.

Only 1 in 4 companies fully understand their own AI costs, and CData's Rahul Pahuja is unpacking why that's the same problem as AI trust, live at Ai4.

Tuesday, August 4, 4:40 PM.
The Venetian, Titian Ballroom 2302.
Ai4 - Artificial Intelligence Conferences

08/01/2026

What if the agent driving up your AI bill is also the one nobody can audit?

CData's Connect AI scopes data access to the task, so agents cost less and see only what they need to.

We'll be at Ai4 in Las Vegas, August 4-6, at booth 1536.

07/29/2026

When a protocol runs inside nearly every major AI assistant, from Claude to Copilot to Gemini, no single company should decide where it goes next.

CData has joined the Agentic AI Foundation, the group making sure that decision stays shared.

07/28/2026

There is a real gap right now between how many companies have adopted AI and how many are seeing results from it.

Database Trends and Applications - DBTA and Big Data Quarterly put together a list of companies actually working on that gap, and named CData among them.

07/22/2026

AI initiatives stall when governance is in question.

This clip from the Connect AI Summer Showcase covers what the summer release delivers: PII detection at the MCP boundary, auditable agent identities, role-based access control, and Connect AI Skills that reduce token overhead.

Watch it here, then catch the full session on demand.