Boomi outlined a vision that puts integration platform as a service (iPaaS) at the heart of connecting AI agents as well as APIs and announced the acquisitions of APIIDA's federated API management business and API management assets from Cloud Software Group.
Speaking at Boomi World, CEO Steve Lucas said the company is looking to end "operational overhead and API sprawl" with its platform and enable scale for AI use cases.
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Lucas said: "Connectivity remains a critical challenge for almost every organization. The chief culprit is digital fragmentation, a byproduct of digital shifts that, paradoxically, lead to digital silos and disjointed technical architectures that leave the average enterprise now juggling over 364 applications and numerous API gateways. AI thrives on reliable, secure, and current data, yet too often, this data is fragmented, difficult to govern, and not securely managed."
Boomi's Enterprise Platform aims to address those issues with new features for API management in AI, out-of-box AI agents as well as automated AI orchestration workflows, and tools to manage data quality, data lineage and metadata management.
Key additions include Boomi's platform include:
- The Boomi AI agent framework, which integrates various agents.
- Boomi Answers, an agent for prescriptive help.
- Boomi DataDetective, an agent for classifying data fields and protecting sensitive data and tracking data movement.
- Boomi DesignGen, an agent for building integrations.
- Boomi Scribe, which automatically documents existing and built-by-AI integrations.
- The ability to add third party agents via APIs as well as Boomi GPT. To that end, Boomi announced a partnership with Vianai Systems, which provides conversational AI tools for finance.
- Boomi DataHub, a data access layer for integration pipelines and master data management.
Constellation Research analyst Doug Henschen is at Boomi World and relayed the following take:
"Boomi shared a very forward-looking vision at BoomiWorld 24 for GenAI agent-assisted integration and automation. The four agents initially released -- Boomi Answers for prescriptive assistance, Boomi DataDetective for automatically classifying data and detecting PII, Boomi DesignGen for autonomously generating integrations, and Boomi Scribe for documenting existing integrations – are right in Boomi’s integration and automation wheelhouse, but company CEO, Steve Lucas, also promised an ambitious variety of agents yet to come to the Boomi Agent Garden. From financial analysis to dashboard building to marketing automation, Lucas wasn’t shy about promising broad-ranging, GenAI-based capabilities yet to come, whether provided by Boomi or by third-party partners."
