Development of CONNX's technology began in 1989. CONNX Solutions was originally founded as SolutionsIQ's Software Products Division. The Division was founded when SolutionsIQ, then CNA Computer Systems Engineering, recognized that changes to the decision support needs of its customers required a product that allowed PCs to access traditionally non-accessible data sources.

Subsequent customer-centric releases of CONNX have moved the product beyond a simple API to an open standards based (ODBC, OLE DB, JDBC, .NET), full-featured suite of data access software tools that allows simultaneous secure, real time, read/write access to all of an organization’s different and sometimes incompatible data sources -regardless of location. Continuous investment in research and development has improved its performance capabilities and ease of use. The Software Products Division was spun off into its own company in 2001 to better serve its growing customer base and to allow it to pursue its own strategic direction.