{"id":12289,"date":"2026-11-10T11:36:55","date_gmt":"2026-11-10T15:36:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.softwareag.com\/?p=12289"},"modified":"2026-11-10T11:39:55","modified_gmt":"2026-11-10T15:39:55","slug":"connx-mcp-server-community-edition-bringing-enterprise-data-to-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.softwareag.com\/en\/blog\/uncategorized\/connx-mcp-server-community-edition-bringing-enterprise-data-to-ai\/","title":{"rendered":"CONNX MCP Server Community Edition: Bringing Enterprise Data to AI\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">AI assistants and agents are only as useful as the data they can reach. Ask one about last quarter&#8217;s orders, and it can only answer if it can see the system where those orders live. For most enterprises, that system isn&#8217;t a modern cloud database. 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