CData Connect vs. CData Connect AI vs. CData Python Connectors vs. Excel-to-Word Document Automation Comparison Chart

CData’s AI offering is centered on Connect AI and associated AI-driven connectivity capabilities, which provide live, governed access to enterprise data without moving it off source systems. Connect AI is built as a managed Model Context Protocol (MCP) platform that lets AI assistants, agents, copilots, and embedded AI applications directly query over 300 data sources, such as CRM, ERP, databases, APIs, with a full understanding of data semantics and relationships. It enforces source system authentication, respects existing role-based permissions, and ensures that AI actions (reads and writes) follow governance and audit rules. The system supports query pushdown, parallel paging, bulk read/write operations, streaming mode for large datasets, and cross-source reasoning via a unified semantic layer. In addition, CData’s “Talk to your Data” engine integrates with its Virtuality product to allow conversational access to BI insights and reports.

The Excel-to-Word Document Automation Add-in automates updating of Excel-based content into Word and PowerPoint documents. Updatable content includes text, lists, tables, images, and charts. It also makes it easy to link/map the “dynamic” content to be updated. Update any new or existing Word or PowerPoint document with content from any new or existing Excel workbook. Update recurring reports and documents that need to be customized/personalized multiple times. Use your workbooks and your documents as templates -- any Word or PowerPoint document "linked" to the workbook using the core add-in can be used as a template The add-in makes it easy to link, test, upload, and manage document templates and associated Excel-based tools.