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Generative AI

Overview

As organizations embrace generative AI (GenAI), the market is rapidly evolving. Today, GenAI goes beyond simply generating responses to becoming truly agentic—capable of autonomous decision-making within well-defined business processes. Agentic AI involves tightly orchestrated software agents that perceive context, employ reason, and plan and execute multi-step workflows, all with minimal oversight. 

However, as organizations begin this journey to agentic AI, one truth becomes clear: AI is only as powerful as the context it can access. That context lives in data, but enterprise data is often scattered across cloud platforms, legacy systems, and departmental silos, stored in different formats and with a variety of access constraints. Many of the most valuable AI use cases—like real-time decisioning, personalized experiences, or automated compliance checks—depend on live, governed access to this distributed data. Traditional data integration methods struggle to keep up, introducing latency, complexity, and risk. And when these new AI-powered applications touch sensitive data, the stakes are even higher. Security, privacy, and governance cannot be afterthoughts—they must be built in from the start.

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The New Era of Gen AI: Enabled by Logical Data Management

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The Denodo Platform

The Denodo Platform provides the critical data foundation that GenAI applications need to succeed. As a logical data management solution, the Denodo Platform connects to all your data—no matter where it lives—making it available in real time, with built-in governance and a unified semantic layer. This not only simplifies how data is accessed and understood, but it also provides AI models with the most current, trusted, and context-rich information. For organizations looking to scale GenAI projects quickly and responsibly, Denodo removes the data integration and security roadblocks that often slow things down.

Simplifying AI Development with Trusted Data Access

To accelerate the development of intelligent, data-driven applications, Denodo offers the Denodo AI SDK—a powerful toolkit that simplifies how developers connect AI models to enterprise data. The AI SDK provides a unified, secure interface for accessing and preparing data from any source, eliminating the need for custom integration code or complex data pipelines. It automatically handles data embedding, orchestration, governance, and advanced security polices, so AI applications are built on trusted, policy-compliant data from the start. At the core of the AI SDK are three key capabilities:

Query RAG

Empowers users to ask natural language questions and get fast, accurate answers to fact-based queries—like what happened, when, or how much—using real-time, governed data. It’s ideal for replacing manual reports and dashboards with an intuitive, conversational self-service way to access information.

DeepQuery

Tackles complex, open-ended questions that require reasoning, synthesis, or explanation—like understanding why something happened or identifying key drivers across systems. Delivers explainable, multi-step insights grounded in real-time data.

MCP Support

Enables seamless integration with any MCP-compliant client, enabling organizations to build and orchestrate multi-agent AI systems using open, interoperable standards. With Denodo’s trusted data foundation, enterprises can easily enable natural language, self-service access across their data ecosystems.

Note: DeepQuery is available on GitHub under an open-source license, but if you prefer a guided start, you can request access to the AI Accelerator Program, to work with our experts to jump start your AI initiatives.

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Denodo Assistant: Productivity, Powered by Embedded AI

While the Denodo Platform empowers organizations to build their own GenAI-powered applications, we’re also using AI internally to make working with data faster, easier, and more intelligent. Denodo Assistant is an embedded AI capability designed to simplify and accelerate common data management tasks for both data engineers and business users. From intelligent autocompletion and proactive optimization tips to natural language query assistance and dataset recommendations, Denodo Assistant uses the platform’s semantic layer and active metadata to guide users at every step. It’s AI built into the platform—not just to power your applications, but to enhance your productivity.

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Solution benefits

The Denodo Platform makes your organization GenAI-ready, by:

Optimized for RAG

RAG can be powerful — but only if LLMs have access to accurate, well-integrated data. Denodo Query RAG simplifies this by unifying access to production data across SaaS apps, CRMs, ERPs, data lakes, and warehouses. It delivers the context LLMs need, with rich metadata, field descriptions, and business terms — all in the right format for retrieval.

Built for Deep Research

Going beyond fact retrieval, DeepQuery enables GenAI to analyze, reason, and explain. Denodo powers this by providing real-time access to governed, structured data across systems — enabling LLMs to uncover patterns, root causes, and business drivers in minutes, not days.

Ensuring data privacy and security

The Denodo Platform provides a central layer for enforcing security restrictions that can be defined in terms of the canonical model, with field-level granularity. The Denodo Platform supports user- and role-based authentication and authorization, as well as dynamic masking. This makes the Denodo Platform ideal for enforcing data security for RAG-enabled AI applications and helping organizations to meet a wide variety of regulatory requirements.

Ensuring better data quality and explainability

Poor-quality data can result in incorrect or inconsistent behaviors – “garbage in, garbage out.” GenAI applications also require the ability to demonstrate “data explainability,” which is the ability to specify which data was accessed to produce a given result. The Denodo Platform provides extensive functions and rules to maintain data quality. For every GenAI query initiated, the Denodo Platform logs the query and what data was returned, enabling both transparency and explainability.

Meeting regulatory requirements

With its ability to provide a trusted, secure data foundation and enable explainability and transparency, the Denodo Platform enables organizations to meet the stringent requirements of new regulatory frameworks and guidelines such as the EU AI Act, the U.S. Executive Order on AI, China’s Gen AI standards, and Singapore’s Model Governance Framework for Gen AI.

GenAI powered natural language querying

The Denodo Platform democratizes data access by enabling business users to query data in natural language without the need of any special skills, and it enables self-service data preparation by recommending metadata.

Ready to get started with trusted GenAI?

For twenty-five years – Denodo has helped organizations reap business value from their data by integrating diverse data sources into a single, trusted logical layer, enabling consumers and applications to leverage data at the speed of business. We have extensive experience in leveraging metadata for making data initiatives intelligent and productive, which is just what GenAI needs to be successful. Call us today, and become a success story for translating GenAI into value.

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