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How do I connect Claude to OData in 5 minutes?

Execute the following steps to connect Claude to OData. You only need knowledge of Claude, your own business and the OData administration.

OData is both a data format and language to specify actions. OData is used by many cloud platforms to open up their data managed to the customers.

No technical knowledge is needed nor knowledge on the OData APIs to connect OData to Claude. This step-by-step plan will tell you exactly which steps you need to go through on Invantive Cloud to create your own Azure data warehouse with data from OData.

The steps to connect Claude to OData are:

  1. Register an Invantive Cloud account.
  2. Create a OData database.
  3. Grant connection from Claude access to OData
  4. Connect Claude to OData through the connector.
  5. Ask Claude a question about OData

Invantive Cloud offers a OData connector to download data from OData into Claude, but there are over 110 other connectors available also for SQL, Power BI, Power Query, Qlik, Tableau i Azure Data Factory.

With the OData connector for Claude you will by default fetch the data from all connected OData companies in your dashboard. You can limit the number of OData companies that are retrieved in Claude through the Database settings. For example, you can also limit the connector for Claude to the data from exactly one OData company. Of course, you can also filter the data by a specific OData company using a filter step in Claude. The OData connector for Claude has advanced optimizations for great real-time performance with both a single OData company as well as with hundreds of OData companies.

When you are having questions, please check the forums for OData. Every organisation is entitled to 1 hour of free training to help you get started. This free hour also applies to free plans.

Register Account on Invantive Cloud

Skip this step when you already have an account on Invantive Cloud. Otherwise execute the following steps one time to register an account on Invantive Cloud:

  1. Go to Invantive Cloud start page.

  2. Select the Log on-button.

  3. Select the Sign Up-button. Sign Up to Invantive Cloud.

  4. Enter your business email address. Enter business email address.

  5. Select the Next-button.

  6. Enter your personal data. Enter personal data.

  7. Select the Next-button.

  8. Enter your password and repeat the provided password.

  9. Select the Next-button. Enter two identical passwords.

  10. You will receive a six-digit verification code by email within 2 minutes.

  11. Enter the six-digit verification code. Six-digit verification code to validate email address.

  12. Select the Sign Up-button.

  13. Log on now. Sign Up.

  14. Make sure you have an authentication app installed on your phone. Select the Next-button. Prepare TOTP-configuration.

  15. Add the displayed QR code to the authentication app, enter the current verification code, and choose "Finish". Scan QR-code into TOTP-app and enter current code.

  16. Skip registration of the organisation. Skip company registration.

  17. Complete your personal data and choose 'Save'. Complete personal data.

  18. Go to the dashboard. Navigate to dashboard.

  19. The Invantive Cloud dashboard will be shown.

You now have a login code on Invantive Cloud with which you can set up the connection with OData and numerous other platforms. You will use the same Invantive login code and workflow for all other platforms.

Create OData database

In this step, we set up a database with data from OData. The database is "virtual" because it is not a traditional database, but is fed real-time from OData. Invantive Cloud provides Claude with a real-time link to OData. The database will be used for all your OData reporting with Claude. So you only need to perform these steps once.

  1. Click the Add Database button. Add database.

  2. Select OData from the list. Select OData connector.

  3. Please fill out the form with login information for OData.

  4. Select the OK-button.

Congratulations! You can now process data from OData within the Invantive Cloud website. You can do this for example with the interactive SQL editor.

Grant connection from Claude access to OData

To retrieve the data from Claude we create a link via Invantive Bridge Online. This creates a "bridge" between the cloud of Invantive and the standard OData connector that is available in every version of Claude. You do not need to install anything locally: no connector, no ado.NET provider and no Claude add-on neither.

Execute the following steps to safely use the data from OData outside of Invantive Cloud:

  1. Next to the database you will find an orange text requesting you to allow access from your current location (IP address). Select the nearby orange button.

  2. You can completely disable IP address checking by entering an asterisk ("*").

You are now ready to import the OData data into Claude.

Configure the MCP connector in Claude for OData

In Claude the address of the MCP server is added once as a custom connector, after which the data of OData is available in every conversation.

  1. In Claude: open Settings and then Connectors, and choose to add a custom connector. In Claude: open Settings and then Connectors, and choose to add a custom connector.

  2. Paste the URL address of the MCP server copied in the previous step and confirm. Paste the URL address of the MCP server copied in the previous step and confirm.

  3. Log on with your Invantive Cloud account and approve the request. Log on with your Invantive Cloud account and approve the request.

  4. Ask a question only your own OData data can answer. The connector first reads the data model and then the records the question needs. Ask a question only your own OData data can answer. The connector first reads the data model and then the records the question needs.

What Claude Can and Cannot Do

The connector offers tools such as to describe the data model and read records. There is no tool that writes, posts, deletes or executes SQL, so no instruction in a conversation can change anything in OData.

Reading is bounded by the database: platforms not in it and OData companies not selected are not reachable.