As enterprises embrace agentic AI, multiple challenges exist to provide a streamlined platform – notably in key areas of security, compliance, governance, orchestration, and interoperability.

To fill this demand, leading iPaaS provider Boomi has released a wide-ranging collection of AI-centric updates and innovations, including AI Agent tools, integration, and stand ways to support for AI and agentic management and connectivity.   

The massive rollout of new technologies came during Boomi World, the company’s annual user conference.  With these latest technology launches, Boomi becomes the latest Integration Platform-as-a-Service company to make strong investments to ensure the iPaaS will become foundational technology for AI buildouts.

“Today’s enterprises are overwhelmed by digital fragmentation and data sprawl,” The future belongs to organizations that can intelligently connect everything and automate anything — and Boomi is THE platform that makes it happen. With these innovations, we’re empowering our customers to move faster, work smarter, and lead in an AI-first world,” said Steve Lucas, Chairman and CEO at Boomi.  

Boomi’s AI and AI Agent related rollouts include:

Boomi Agentstudio: Aims to help users “responsibly accelerate” AI agent development for real-world use cases.

 

Specialized Pre-Built Boomi AI Agents:   These include Integration Advisor Agent, API Design Agent, API Documentation Agent, Data Integration Connector Agent

 

Next-Generation Boomi Data Integration: To help organizations accelerate the delivery of analytics and AI-driven data products. 

 

AI Agent Connectivity: Provides Model Context Protocol (MCP) support throughout the Boomi Enterprise Platform and Boomi Agentstudio as an open standard.

Taking center stage at Boomi World was the general availability release of Boomi Agentstudio (former Boomi AI Studio), which provides customers a complete end-to-end “agent management lifecycle” platform, Mani Gill, Boomi's VP of Product Management AI & Data told IDN   Boomi Agentstudio combines intuitive tools with enterprise-grade governance to accelerates AI agent development for real-world use cases, he added. 

Under the covers, Agentstudio brings together several critical AI agent capabilities into a powerful AI- and Agent-ready fabric platform to let organizations design, govern, and orchestrate all AI agents at scale -- within a secure environment.   

Gill shared a deeper under-the-covers look at Boomi Agentstudio and how it leverages Boomi’s traditional iPaaS features:

Boomi Agentstudio offers a robust integration framework designed specifically for AI agent, design, and governance. On top of capabilities for design, delivery, testing, deployment, and management, Agentstudio includes proactive monitoring for full agent control, and a central hub for organizations to access and discover customizable AI agents from Boomi and trusted AI partners.

 

While Boomi’s traditional iPaaS offerings are similar, Agentstudio aims to help enterprises embrace agentic AI to drive automation and decision-making, as its rapid proliferation presents new challenges for security, compliance, and interoperability.  iPaaS focuses on integrating applications, data, and APIs. Agentstudio is dedicated to managing the full lifecycle of AI agents, from development to governance.

 

The core Boomi iPaaS framework provides integrations for application, data, and API integrations. These capabilities “act as tools for AI agents, grounding them in the enterprise context and making them more effective. In other words, we help teams more easily reuse what they have already built in iPaaS to create useful, enterprise-ready AI agents, or integrate AI agents to make better use of those integration processes.”

 

APIs are integrated into each level of the stack – API management capabilities enable safer and more efficient communication within systems and plays a pivotal role for businesses in achieving AI value. To improve the synergy between AI and APIs, organizations need to focus on robust API management and seamless integration practices, ensuring that APIs are secure, scalable, and easily accessible for AI systems.

Inside Boomi Agentstudio – Architectures, Features and Capabilities

Boomi Agentstudio offers a fully integrated environment for AI agent design, governance, and orchestration, including:

Agent Designer: Enables users to create and deploy AI agents using intuitive no-code templates, ensuring they are grounded on trusted enterprise data with built-in security guardrails.

Agent Control Tower: Provides organizations with proactive monitoring, ensuring full visibility and control over both Boomi AI agents and third-party agents, starting with Amazon Bedrock and expanding further. By mitigating security and compliance risks, businesses can confidently manage their AI ecosystem with greater efficiency and integrate registered agents into any process to drive hyperproductivity.

Agent Garden: A personal, unified space that enables users to interact with their AI agents using natural language, streamlining collaboration and execution of AI-driven tasks. It contains AI agent design, testing, deployment, and tool development.

Agent Marketplace: Residing in Boomi Marketplace (formerly Boomi Discover), Agent Marketplace is a central hub for organizations to access and discover proven off-the-shelf and customizable AI agents from Boomi and trusted AI partners.

As to specific functionality, Agentstudio brings together these components:

Tools - Power agents to take meaningful action with APIs, integrations, prompts, MCP servers, and database access connected to the Boomi platform.

 

Agent Registry - Use API keys to register agents, whether homegrown,

 

marketplace-sourced, or consultancy-delivered, and ensure organizational visibility.

Agent Step - Call registered agents directly in Boomi Integration Process Canvas to automate any business process.

 

Guardrails - Set precise rules, restrictions, and filters and benefit from built-in guardrails to enforce secure, ethical agent behaviors.

 

Observability Metrics - Monitor agent activity in real time and detect anomalies early to prevent security threats and performance issues.

 

MCP Support - Boomi Agentstudio will leverage MCP to access tools seamlessly and the introduction of a new MCP gateway will enable tool aggregation and discovery, while providing enterprise grade security and governance.

 

Expanded Integration with Amazon Q Business - Boomi is an approved Data Processor enabled for all Amazon Web Services (AWS) customers. Expanded governance allows “centralized agent registration” for Amazon Bedrock, offering observability across providers.

Boomi Speed AI, Agentic Development, Deployment and Adds More Control

Through the use of Boomi, businesses can streamline their processes across applications leveraging AI agents and pre-built connectors, and ensure well-managed reliable data is used for AI processes, Gill told IDN.  In fact, thanks to Boomi’s end-to-end perspective for AI Agents, Agentstudio can provide customers, ease-of-use, automation, collaboration and control, he noted.

Gill also listed several key benefits Boomi Agentstudio offers to support an end-to-end environment for AI Agents including:

1. Enables organizations/developers to register all AI agents from Boomi and third-party including Amazon Bedrock
2. AI assistance throughout the agent development experience
3. Monitoring (tracking agent and system performance)
4. Anomaly detection (on the roadmap)
5. “Kill Switch” - ability to instantly disable compromised agents

Even prior to this month’s GA rollout, with the Boomi Enterprise Platform, customers have deployed over 25,000 AI agents to accelerate their integration projects, Gill said.

So, with so many announcements, we asked Gill about what is next in Boomi’s vision leveraging iPaaS and AI for AI Agents and future intelligent (or autonomous) workflows.

Our development roadmap includes support for custom models, empowering customers to integrate both large and small models that precisely align with their unique requirements. Regarding governance, the Agent Control Tower will enable AI agent controllers to customize the agent registry statically to incorporate providers currently unavailable. This ensures a comprehensive, unified view of the customer's entire agentic ecosystem.

Boomi World Also Highlights Other Offerings

Boomi also had a range of other notable rollouts at Boomi World, among them:
 
New Boomi AI Agents
A set of new purpose-built AI Agents from Boomi aim to deliver a variety of assistance to developers. Support includes automating complex tasks, streamlining business processes, and accelerate integrations for apps, data, and API integration. These new agents come out-of-the-box in the Boomi Enterprise Platform at no additional cost, and include:

Integration Advisor Agent - Autonomously review integration processes to improve integration efficiency and maintainability.

 

API Design Agent - To rapidly design and edit APIs by autonomously generating OpenAPI specs that leverage best practices for API definitions.

 

API Documentation Agent – To autonomously generate business and technical documentation from API definitions.

 

Data Connector Agent - To quickly design and create data integration connectors for any REST-based data source. This connects all data within a single platform — eliminating the need for third-party workarounds.

Boomi Data Integration
Boomi Data Integration — formerly Rivery — is now part of the Boomi platform. BDI enables users to seamlessly ingest, transform, and activate data from any source. In addition, users gain the ability to create automated, end-to-end data pipelines and accelerate the delivery of analytics and AI-driven data products. Notable features include managed data connectors, log-based change data capture (CDC), and enhanced observability. 

Analysts Weigh In on Boomi’s Support for AI Agents

According to Gartner®, “By 2028, 33% of enterprise software applications will include agentic AI, up from less than 1% in 2024, enabling 15% of day-to-day work decisions to be made autonomously.”1 However, without a centralized management solution for all AI agents, organizations risk fragmented AI ecosystems, operational inefficiencies, and regulatory exposure. 

Further, Boomi’s push to fill such gaps attracted attention from Matt Aslett, director of research at ISG. “As enterprises accelerate AI adoption, they require data platforms that bridge silos, streamline data management, and deliver intelligent automation,” he said. “Boomi’s platform approach is well placed for this opportunity — combining integration, automation, API management, and data management with AI-native capabilities to meet the challenges of digitally fragmented enterprises.”