Palo Alto: TECHz – News Desk
Denodo, a global leader in data management and AI, has announced the release of Denodo Platform 9.4, reinforcing its role as a trusted data foundation for agentic and generative AI. The new platform is designed to simplify and accelerate access to live, governed data, enabling organizations to scale AI beyond pilots and proofs of concept while maintaining strong performance, governance, and business context.
As AI adoption grows, success increasingly depends on the quality and accessibility of underlying data. Without unified access to trusted, governed data, shared semantics, and consistent enterprise-wide policies, AI initiatives often struggle to deliver meaningful value. Denodo Platform 9.4 addresses these challenges by offering capabilities tailored to three critical audiences: data teams, AI teams, and business users, each designed to help organizations operationalize AI with confidence.
AI Teams: Unified and Governed Data Access
For AI and advanced analytics teams, Platform 9.4 introduces secure integration with vector databases, allowing unified access to structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data – including documents, text embeddings, images, and other content – through a single logical data access layer. The platform also embeds support for the Model Context Protocol (MCP), enabling any MCP-compatible AI agent to securely query live enterprise data while governance teams retain full oversight. These features provide a production-ready framework to ground AI agents and models in trusted real-time data without compromising security or compliance.
Data Teams: Faster Insights and Improved Lakehouse Performance
For data engineering teams, Denodo Platform 9.4 introduces Lakehouse Accelerator, leveraging the open-source Velox execution engine to deliver up to four times faster query performance, enhanced CPU and memory efficiency, and better scalability for AI and analytics workloads. These improvements help organizations extract more value from existing lakehouse investments, accelerate time-to-insight, and support more concurrent users and AI workloads with lower infrastructure costs.
Business Users: Conversational Access to Trusted Data
For business users, the platform offers an intuitive, conversational AI interface embedded in the Denodo Data Marketplace. Users can ask multi-turn questions and explore enterprise-wide data without needing technical knowledge of schemas or tools. The experience provides transparency into how queries are processed, guiding users when intent or context is unclear. This democratized access ensures faster insights while maintaining governance and consistency across the organization.
Alberto Pan, Chief Technology Officer, Denodo: “Organizations are increasingly focused on turning AI ambition into real, operational outcomes. 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.”
Denodo Platform 9.4 positions the company as a critical enabler for AI in production, helping organizations operationalize agentic and generative AI while maintaining enterprise-grade governance, performance, and transparency.
