Denodo Platform 9.4 Enhancements Overview

Denodo Platform 9.4 reinforces Denodo’s role as the trusted data foundation for agentic and generative AI

This release strengthens how data, AI, and business teams access, understand, and use enterprise data — improving performance, reducing complexity, and building trust in AI-driven decisions.

As AI initiatives scale, organizations face a common challenge: ensuring AI systems, analytics, and users can reliably access live data, understand business context, and operate within clear governance and performance boundaries. Without a strong data foundation, even the most advanced AI models struggle to deliver consistent, production-ready outcomes.

The release introduces major advances in analytics performance and efficiency, expands governed access to structured and unstructured data for AI workloads, and delivers a more transparent, conversational experience for business users. Together, these capabilities help organizations operationalize AI with confidence while continuing to maximize the value of their existing data and lakehouse investments.

Denodo Platform 9.4 is designed to deliver value across the organization — supporting the needs of data teams, AI teams, and business users — through a shared, governed, and high-performance data access layer.

What’s New in Denodo Platform 9.4

Key Highlights of Denodo Platform 9.4

For Data Teams

Performance, Efficiency, and Lakehouse Optimization

For AI Teams

Unified, Governed Access to All Enterprise Data

For Business Users

Conversational Access to Trusted Data

Lakehouse performance at scale
Denodo Platform 9.4 delivers significant enhancements for data engineering and platform teams responsible for performance, scalability, and cost efficiency. Lakehouse Accelerator builds on Denodo’s already high-performance embedded MPP SQL engine by integrating the open-source Velox execution engine. This modern execution layer can speed up query performance by as much as 400%, while optimizing CPU and memory usage and enabling higher concurrency across analytics and AI workloads — allowing data teams to support more users, handle more demanding workloads, and improve efficiency without increasing infrastructure complexity or cost.
Real-time SAP access without replication
Denodo Platform 9.4 extends native integration with SAP environments through support for the ABAP Core Data Services (CDS) interface. This allows organizations to access semantically rich SAP data from SAP S/4HANA® and SAP ECC systems in real time, without replication or custom extractors. By preserving SAP’s business semantics and authorization model, data teams can safely combine SAP data with data from other enterprise systems through a single logical access layer.

Unstructured data unification with vector search
Denodo Platform 9.4 expands support for unstructured data by enabling secure integration with vector databases that store embeddings for documents, text, images, audio, and other content. AI teams can unify structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data through Denodo’s logical access layer, and even combine vector search with traditional SQL queries. Security, governance, lineage, and access controls are applied consistently across all data types, helping ensure AI systems are grounded in trusted enterprise data.
Platform-embedded MCP for governed agent connectivity
Denodo Platform 9.4 embeds support for the Model Context Protocol (MCP) directly into the platform, making governed data access a shared, platform-level service rather than something implemented agent by agent. Any MCP-compatible agent or client can securely discover and query live enterprise data using approved semantics and policies — while platform and governance teams retain centralized control and visibility as agent-based initiatives scale.

Natural language access in the Data Marketplace
Denodo Platform 9.4 enhances how business users discover and interact with data through an embedded conversational AI experience in the Denodo Data Marketplace. Users can ask questions and explore enterprise-wide data using natural, multi-turn conversations, without needing to understand schemas, data structures, or underlying tools.
Guided, explainable conversations that build trust
In addition to delivering answers, the conversational experience can explain the steps being taken and prompt users for clarification when intent or context is ambiguous. This guided, interactive workflow improves transparency, helps reduce misinterpretation and hallucinations, and increases confidence in conversational BI outcomes — while maintaining enterprise-grade security and governance.

Move from AI experimentation to trusted, production-ready AI.

Empower data, AI, and business teams with live, governed access to enterprise data, without sacrificing performance, security, or control. Explore the full release details and see what’s new in Denodo Platform 9.4.

Ready to see how Denodo Platform 9.4 can accelerate your AI and analytics initiatives?

Schedule a personalized session to learn how Denodo Platform 9.4 helps organizations scale AI with confidence, improve performance across the lakehouse, and deliver trusted data access across the business.

Denodo Platform 9.4 reinforces Denodo’s role as the trusted data foundation for agentic and generative AI