CData Software this week announced enhancements to CData Connect AI that bring new capabilities to CData’s managed Model Context Protocol (MCP) platform, adding to connectivity, context, and control — the three pillars required to move AI from experimentation to production.
For connectivity, a new Connect Gateway enables AI systems to work with live data from more than 350 data sources and business systems, without replicating or moving the data. It supports SAP, SQL Server and PostgreSQL, and many more.
Under the context pillar, Connect AI has a scoped MCP architecture thast controls what individual agents can see and do. Universal tools, the company announced, provide a normalized set of operations across those connected systems, while source tool expose the defined operations specific to each system, and customs tools enable organizations to tailor operations to specific worfkflows.
As for control, Connect AI enforces user authentication backed by full audit trails. Every query is authenticated, authorized and auditable, the company said. New governance enhancements include SCIM 2.0 and Custom OAuth Applications let enterprises use first-party credientials to meet security and compliance requirements.
Gloo AI Studio Brings Production-Grade AI Development Platform to Faith-Based and Mission-Driven Developers
Gloo has announced Gloo AI Studio, an AI development platform for faith-based and mission-driven developers.
With the AI Studio, developers can select models optimized for ministry workloads that return responses aligned with the needs of the faithful, making AI safer and more accurate for the worldviews of mission-driven organizations.
As a result, developers can create a variety of practical, mission-aligned AI applications and solutions. For example:
A developer can build an application that uses specific books in the Bible to power a daily devotional assistant or build a Christian community app with built-in content moderation.
A university can integrate values-aligned AI into coursework, equipping students to build digital chaplaincy tools or theological natural language processing systems.
Churches, nonprofits, publishers, and even large technology partners can deploy AI for pastoral care insights, spiritually-aware study tools, donor engagement, or doctrinally-aligned content adaptation.
“AI infrastructure decisions made today will shape how intelligence is distributed and trusted for decades,” said Steele Billings, President of Gloo AI at Gloo. “We built Gloo AI Studio so governance and values alignment are foundational, not optional. Our platform enables teams to move fast without cutting corners — embedding accountability, consistency, and control into every AI deployment.”