View From the Top by Nicole Ritchie VP Product Marketing
Your most valuable data is the hardest to reach. A blind spot for enterprise AI is the vast amount of data locked inside mainframe and legacy systems. These platforms remain the operational backbone in industries such as banking, insurance, and government. They process massive transaction volumes and house decades of customer records, financial data, and product information—they are an authoritative source of truth for many businesses.
Yet much of this data remains inaccessible to modern AI platforms, analytics tools, intelligent agents, and large language models. As a result, organizations risk building AI projects with incomplete, outdated, or fragmented data—limiting accuracy, undermining trust, and constraining business impact.
Software AG solves this problem with CONNX, a data access and virtualization layer built specifically to make enterprise data—Adabas, VSAM, IMS, Db2, and other systems of record—reachable by modern AI workloads. CONNX securely unlocks these unique, proprietary data sources and exposes them through the Model Context Protocol natively, instantly making enterprise data AI-ready. Users and AI can now use natural language to query legacy and mainframe data in real time.
CONNX ensures AI systems are working with the most current data by providing secure, governed AI access across hybrid environments, without moving or replicating data. The result is a fast, cost-efficient path to enterprise AI.
By turning legacy and mainframe data into an accessible, real-time resource, CONNX helps organizations eliminate data silos, accelerate innovation, and turn long-standing systems—containing the most valuable data—into strategic assets for AI transformation.
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Software AG CONNX provides data access and connectivity between enterprise data sources and anywhere it is needed, fast. Whether that’s streaming data into Kafka, powering event-driven applications, or enabling natural-language database queries, CONNX makes your enterprise data AI-ready, always accessible and secure.
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