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Boomi launches agentic AI tools, announces AWS collaboration
Wednesday May 14, 2025. 03:14 PM , from InfoWorld
AI-driven automation platform vendor Boomi has unveiled products and partnerships to advance its enterprise automation AI strategy.
The announcements at the Boomi World conference reflect a “commitment to business transformation through a unified, open, and AI-native platform,” the company said on Wednesday. On the product front, Boomi announced the general availability of Boomi Agentstudio, formerly known as Boomi AI Studio, a no-code environment that lets organizations design, govern, and orchestrate AI agents at scale. In conjunction with this release, the company announced that it has expanded its integration capabilities to include Amazon Q Business. Boomi is now an approved Data Processor for all Amazon Web Services (AWS) customers. Agentstudio’s governance now supports centralized agent registration for Amazon Bedrock, and a new Agent Step capability lets enterprise developers embed agents into the Process Canvas. Four new AI agents have been added to Boomi Enterprise Platform, available to customers at no additional charge. Integration Advisor Agent autonomously reviews integration processes, providing actionable feedback to improve integration efficiency and maintainability API Design Agent lets customers rapidly design and edit application programming interfaces (APIs) by autonomously generating OpenAPI specifications that, Boomi said, “leverage best practices for compliant and comprehensive API definitions.” API Documentation Agent handles the bugbear of all developers, documentation, by autonomously generating business and technical docs from API definitions. Data Connector Agent lets users design and create data integration connectors for any REST-based data source. “These intelligent agents operate alongside developers, handling complex tasks, simplifying workflows, and speeding up the integration of applications, data, and APIs,” Boomi Chief Product and Technology Officer Ed Macosky said in an email. “The result: faster time-to-value and improved operational performance.” Boomi Data Integration, formerly Rivery (which Boomi acquired in December 2024), is now part of the Boomi Enterprise Platform. It offers automated end-to-end data pipelines with managed data connectors, log-based change data capture, and enhanced observability that will allow users to ingest, transform, and activate data from any source. It is unclear whether this feature will be free, however. “We’re still finalizing the scope and rollout details for those capabilities, so we’re not sharing specifics just yet” Macosky said. “What we can say is that our goal remains consistent: to deliver as much value as possible through the platform in a way that aligns with customer needs.” Although it’s not there yet, Boomi also announced that it will build support for Model Context Protocol (MCP), a new open standard that allows AI agents to connect to data sources, into the Boomi Enterprise Platform. “Support for MCP is on the roadmap and actively in development,” said Macosky. “While we’re not sharing exact release dates yet, it’s a top priority and will be introduced in phases over the coming months as part of our continued platform innovation.” Jason Andersen, VP and principal analyst at Moor Insights & Strategy, is impressed. “Boomi’s new capabilities underscore two often underrepresented aspects of agents and agentic workflows: tool integration and governance,” he said. “For agents to be meaningful within an enterprise context, secure and reliable access to APIs, applications, and data sources is critical. Capabilities like the ones Boomi is offering will accelerate the delivery of high value and high scale agents.” “By positioning itself as the central management plane for agent deployments, Boomi’s platform is positioning itself as the enterprise nerve center to build and manage enterprise agentic workflows,” added Andrew Sharp, research director, Info-Tech Research Group. “These new capabilities help enterprises solve persistent challenges around data silos, disjointed processes, and shadow IT. A unified integration platform with embedded, cutting-edge AI management and governance capabilities will enable organizations to embrace AI strategies at scale.” Strategic collaboration with AWS In addition to the product announcements, Boomi announced a strategic collaboration with AWS which includes the integration of Amazon Bedrock with Boomi Control Tower, the company’s centralized management tool for deploying, monitoring, and governing AI agents across hybrid and multi-cloud environments. Control Tower is part of Agentstudio, and, Boomi said, gives customers visibility, monitoring, and control of both Boomi-authored and third-party AI agents. In addition, Enhanced Agent Designer integrates Boomi’s low-code agent designer with Amazon Q index to allow users to build, train, and deploy intelligent agents leveraging Amazon Q index. The company also announced a set of native data connectors for AWS Lambda, Amazon Bedrock, Amazon DynamoDB, and the Amazon Selling Partner Appstore. Finally, Boomi for SAP provides SAP-certified integration to provide connectivity between SAP and non-SAP systems. It supports cloud migration, including ELT capabilities powered by the Rivery acquisition, allowing customers to move SAP data into any AWS-powered data warehouse or data lake. “Boomi’s new partnership with AWS is a powerful combo, since AWS Bedrock is an emerging leader in agentic development and Boomi brings a level of integration and governance to enterprise agents,” Andersen said. “This should enable enterprises to build richer and more contextual agents.” This story has been updated with comments from Info-Tech Research Group.
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