CData attributes its rapid growth to rising demand for seamless data connectivity across cloud, on-premises, and AI-driven environments
CData Software today announced it ranked on the Deloitte Technology Fast 500™, a ranking of the 500 fastest-growing technology, media, telecommunications, life sciences, fintech, and energy tech companies in North America, now in its 31st year.
CData Co-founder and CEO Amit Sharma attributes the company’s sustained growth and profitability to surging enterprise demand for real-time data connectivity and CData’s expanding ecosystem of global technology partners, including Salesforce, Google, Palantir, and SAP. As organizations accelerate their adoption of AI, analytics, and automation, CData’s solutions deliver the unified, secure, and scalable data access required to fuel those initiatives.
“For the fourth consecutive year, Deloitte’s recognition highlights not only our momentum but also the critical role CData plays in enabling AI-ready enterprises,” said Sharma. “With the industry’s rapid evolution toward intelligent, data-driven systems, our focus remains on empowering customers and partners to connect to the data that powers innovation, anywhere it lives.”
2025 Milestones & Momentum
In 2025, CData delivered a series of standout milestones that underscore its leadership in data connectivity:
- Expanded Partnership with Google Cloud: CData broadened its collaboration with Google Cloud, extending native connectivity across BigQuery, Looker, and Vertex AI to simplify real-time data access and analytics in Google Cloud environments.
- Launch of CData Embedded Cloud: The company introduced a new cloud-based connectivity platform enabling software providers to embed CData connectors without managing infrastructure, accelerating development cycles and time-to-market.
- Strengthened Partnership with Palantir Foundry: CData expanded its embedded integration capabilities within Palantir Foundry, enabling secure, governed access to hundreds of enterprise data sources directly through CData’s connectors.
- Introduction of CData Connect AI: The company launched Connect AI, the industry’s first managed Metadata, Connectivity & Processing (MCP) platform, empowering enterprises to connect AI applications to live, governed data across more than 300 enterprise systems.
- Expanded Integration Accelerator Portfolio: CData launched a suite of no-code Integration Accelerators for Snowflake, Microsoft Fabric, and Databricks, dramatically simplifying real-time, multi-cloud data integration and speeding time-to-insight for analytics and AI initiatives.
- Strengthened Partnership with SAP: CData announced expanded connectivity support for SAP Datasphere and SAP Business Data Cloud, enabling enterprises to unify SAP and non-SAP data for enhanced analytics.
- Collaboration with Microsoft to Power Enterprise AI Agents: CData introduced Model Context Protocol (MCP) connectivity for Microsoft Copilot Studio and Microsoft Agent 365 through its Connect AI platform, enabling enterprises to build intelligent AI agents with real-time, semantic-rich access to 350+ data sources and enterprise-grade governance.
- Inc. 5000 Recognition: CData was once again named to the Inc. 5000 list, marking its second consecutive year of recognition for rapid growth and innovation.
- Named to Accel’s 2025 US AI 100: CData was recognized by Accel as one of the top companies shaping the future of AI and cloud innovation, underscoring the rising importance of seamless, governed data access as enterprises deploy AI assistants and intelligent agents at scale.
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