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Denodo, a leader in data management and AI, has released Denodo Platform 9.4, enhancing its logical data management capabilities to serve as a trusted foundation for agentic and generative AI. The update delivers unified, governed access to live enterprise data—structured and unstructured—while improving performance, embedding stronger governance, and providing more intuitive interaction for data teams, AI teams, and business users, enabling organizations to scale AI from pilots to production with confidence.
Denodo Platform 9.4 enables AI and advanced analytics teams to connect securely to diverse enterprise data sources through a single logical layer. Key enhancements include integration with vector databases, allowing unified access to documents, text embeddings, images, and other unstructured content alongside traditional structured data.
The platform now natively supports the Model Context Protocol (MCP), making governed data discovery and querying a shared enterprise service. MCP-compatible AI agents can access live data using approved semantics and policies, with governance teams retaining full visibility and control. This approach ensures AI systems remain grounded in trusted, real-time data without per-agent custom implementations, supporting scalable and compliant production deployments.
For data engineering and platform teams, the new Lakehouse Accelerator embeds the open-source Velox execution engine to deliver significant query speed improvements—up to 4x faster performance—along with enhanced CPU and memory efficiency. These gains support higher concurrency, more users, and demanding AI workloads while lowering infrastructure costs and operational complexity.
The accelerator maximizes value from existing lakehouse investments by enabling faster insights without data movement or architectural disruption, helping organizations accelerate ROI on their data platforms.
Denodo Platform 9.4 introduces a conversational, agentic AI experience directly within the Denodo Data Marketplace—the enterprise’s single, e-commerce-style access point for all data assets. Business users, including non-technical executives, can now ask complex questions in natural language and engage in multi-turn conversations with a reasoning agent.
The interface dynamically explains query interpretation, reasoning steps, and results, prompting for clarification when needed to reduce ambiguity and build trust. This guided approach democratizes data access while enforcing enterprise-grade governance, shared semantics, and policies—ensuring every interaction aligns with trusted data products and business context.
“As organizations move from AI pilots to production deployments, success increasingly depends on the intelligence and governance of the underlying data infrastructure,” said Stewart Bond, research vice president, Data Intelligence and Integration Software at IDC. “Denodo Platform 9.4 reflects this shift by strengthening how enterprises unify structured and unstructured data access, embed governance into AI interactions, empower business users, and deliver consistent semantics across distributed environments. These capabilities are essential for building trusted, production-ready AI systems that can scale with operational demands.”
“Organizations are increasingly focused on turning AI ambition into real, operational outcomes,” said Alberto Pan, Chief Technology Officer at Denodo. “Denodo Platform 9.4 is designed to support that shift by strengthening the data foundation across data teams, AI teams, and business users alike. By combining performance, governance, and intuitive access to live data, we help customers move from AI experimentation to trusted, production-ready AI that can truly differentiate the business.”
These advancements position Denodo Platform 9.4 as a critical enabler for organizations seeking to operationalize agentic AI reliably, with improved performance, stronger governance, and broader accessibility across technical and business stakeholders.
About Denodo
Denodo is a global leader in data management, powering trustworthy AI agents and applications. The Denodo Platform, an award-winning logical data management solution, transforms enterprise data into reliable insights for AI, analytics, and self-service initiatives. Organizations worldwide use Denodo to deliver AI-ready, business-ready data in a fraction of the time compared to traditional data lakehouses, achieving up to 4x faster time-to-insight, 345% ROI, and 10x better performance.
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