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MCP: how AI is entering your business software through the back door
Original title, in French: “MCP : quand l'IA entre dans vos logiciels de gestion par la porte de service”
- Publication
- Journal du Net (France)
- Author
- Unsigned
- Published on
- 12 October 2026 · read in the page metadata
Summary
The article explains how the Model Context Protocol (MCP), published by Anthropic in November 2024 and later adopted by OpenAI and Google DeepMind, standardises the connection between AI models and business software (accounting, CRM, invoicing). For SMEs without an IT department, this standard promises to reduce integration costs and to let AI agents query several software tools without custom development, for example to monitor cash flow or prepare payment reminders. For business software vendors, MCP raises the question of their role if customers no longer need to open their interface. Some financial software vendors have offered official read-only MCP connectors since November 2025. The article also mentions an episode in which access to a US model was suspended between 12 June and 1 July 2026, which heightened digital sovereignty concerns.
Summary based on the full text of the article.
Read the article on Journal du Net →Figures cited
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97 million
Monthly downloads of Anthropic's MCP software development kits
March 2026, worldwide
« En mars 2026, Anthropic faisait état de 97 millions de téléchargements mensuels de ses kits de développement. »
Source: Anthropic
Classification
- Country
- France
- Company size
- SMEs, Large companies
- Industries
- Banking, insurance, asset management, finance departments · Software vendors, IT services companies, telecoms · All industries, or industry not specified
- Companies
- Linux Foundation (cited), Claude (supplier), Google DeepMind (supplier), ChatGPT (supplier), OpenAI (supplier), Anthropic (supplier), Block (cited)
- Keywords
- MCP, AI agent, business software, SMEs, software vendors, digital sovereignty
Entry written by Marsanne Studio from the cited article, with the help of an AI model (claude-sonnet-5). The rights to the article and its illustrations belong to Journal du Net. Entry translated from French by Claude Sonnet 5.5.