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⇱ Use ChatGPT to Talk to Your OData Services via CData Connect AI

Use ChatGPT to Talk to Your OData Services via CData Connect AI

👁 Jerod Johnson
Jerod Johnson
Director, Technology Evangelism
Leverage the CData Connect AI Remote MCP Server to enable ChatGPT to securely answer questions and take actions on your OData services for you.

ChatGPT is an AI chatbot developed by OpenAI, launched in November 2022. Based on large language models (LLMs), it enables users to refine and steer conversations through natural language processing. ChatGPT's developer mode, available to Plus and Pro subscribers, provides full Model Context Protocol (MCP) support for connecting to external data sources and tools.

CData Connect AI offers a dedicated cloud-to-cloud interface for connecting to OData services. The CData Connect AI Remote MCP Server enables secure communication between ChatGPT and OData. This allows you to ask questions and take actions on your OData services using ChatGPT, all without the need for data replication to a natively supported database. With its inherent optimized data processing capabilities, CData Connect AI efficiently channels all supported SQL operations, including filters and JOINs, directly to OData. This leverages server-side processing to swiftly deliver the requested OData services.

About OData Data Integration

CData simplifies access and integration of live OData services data. Our customers leverage CData connectivity to:

  • Access OData versions 2.0, 3.0, and 4.0, working with legacy services and the latest features and capabilities.
  • Leverage advanced query options, including $filter, $select, and $expand, enhancing data retrieval from 3rd party tools.
  • Use Server-side execution of aggregation and grouping to minimize data transfer and boost performance.
  • Authenticate securely using a variety of schemes, including Azure AD, digest, negotiate, NTLM, OAuth, and more means secure authentication with every connection.
  • Use SQL stored procedures to manage OData service entities - listing, creating, and removing associations between entities.

Customers use CData's solutions to regularly integrate their OData services with preferred tools, such as Power BI, MicroStrategy, or Tableau, and to replicate data from OData services to their databases or data warehouses.


Getting Started


Step 1: Configure OData Connectivity for ChatGPT

Connectivity to OData from ChatGPT is made possible through CData Connect AI Remote MCP. To interact with OData services from ChatGPT, we start by creating and configuring a OData connection in CData Connect AI.

  1. Log into your Connect AI account, click Sources, and then click Add Connection.
    2. 👁 Adding a Connection
  2. Select "OData" from the Add Connection panel.
    3. 👁 Selecting a data source
  3. Enter the necessary authentication properties to connect to OData.

    The User and Password properties, under the Authentication section, must be set to valid OData user credentials. In addition, specify a URL to a valid OData server organization root or OData services file.

    👁 Configuring a connection (Salesforce is shown)
  4. Click Save & Test

With the connection configured, we are ready to connect to OData services from ChatGPT.

Step 2: Connect ChatGPT to CData Connect AI

Follow these steps to add a CData Connect AI connection in ChatGPT:

  1. Sign in to ChatGPT with a Plus or Pro subscription.
  2. Navigate to Apps from the left panel.
  3. Select the CData Connect AI app from the list.
    4. . 👁 Search for CData Connect AI
  4. Click Connect to authenticate to your Connect AI account.
    5. 👁 Click Connect to authenticate
  5. Click Sign in with CData Connect AI to add Connect AI to your ChatGPT account.
    6. 👁 Sign in with CData Connect AI
  6. After successful authorization, you will be redirected back to ChatGPT.
  7. Click Start Chat to start a new conversation in ChatGPT with Connect AI connected at the background.
    8. 👁 Start Chat

Step 3: Explore Live OData Services with ChatGPT

  1. Start a new conversation in ChatGPT.
  2. Connect AI should ideally be automatically enabled in the chat. If not, navigate to -> More -> CData Connect AI, under the chatbox, to enable the connector from the dropdown
    3. 👁 Enable CData Connect AI in the chat
  3. You can now start exploring your data with natural language prompts. ChatGPT will use the Connect AI MCP server to query your live OData services. Example prompts:
    • "Show me all customers from the last 30 days"
    • "What are my top performing products?"
    • "Analyze sales trends for this quarter"
    • "List all active projects and their current status"
    Refer to CData prompt library for more prompt ideas.
    4. 👁 Using natural language to explore your OData services (Salesforce used here).
  4. Permit ChatGPT to access your OData services. Click Query Data to continue, or Deny to refuse.
    5. 👁 Give permissions to ChatGPT.
  5. ChatGPT translates your natural language queries into SQL and execute them against your OData data through the Connect AI MCP server.
    6. 👁 ChatGPT shows the desired results from your OData services based on the prompts

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