Case Study: Anaqua achieves governed, AI-ready access to business data with CData Connect AI

Anaqua builds governed AI control plane in 6-8 weeks with CData

Anaqua, Inc., a provider of intellectual property management software, faced a challenge from its private equity investors to build a credible AI transformation story by the end of 2026. Their CIO needed to give AI tools like Claude and Microsoft Copilot governed, per-user access to live data across five core business systems without creating a new IT project for every change. They implemented CData Connect AI to solve this.

CData provided a model-agnostic data access layer that acts as a single control plane. This solution gave Anaqua's AI tools governed, live access to systems like Salesforce and Zendesk, with user-level authentication and security built in. The results included a rapid company-wide rollout enabling use cases across IT, support, and executive teams, allowing functional teams to build their own AI workflows without ongoing IT intervention.

Anaqua, Inc