Boomi LP is turning to artificial intelligence-powered agents to help simplify complex application and data integration processes, with the end goal being to try and help accelerate business transformation.
It’s doing this with a new platform called Boomi Agentstudio, announced in general availability today, alongside various other innovations, including support for the open-source Model Context Protocol and a collaboration with Amazon Web Services Inc. that’s focused on AI agent orchestration.
AI agents have emerged as one of the hottest trends. They’re often said to be the next evolution of generative AI, going beyond understanding and answering questions to take actions on behalf of users. AI agents, which can automate all kinds of complex information technology processes, are especially promising in the area of application integration, which explains Boomi’s interest in the trend.
Boomi, formerly owned by Dell Technologies Inc. and now a standalone company, is widely regarded as a leader in the business of integration. It offers an “integration platform-as-a-service” that helps businesses to connect their applications, data and processes across multiple environments, including clouds and on-premises servers. The company’s platform serves as a kind of bridge, enabling the uninterrupted flow of data across these environments. Among other things, companies can use Boomi’s integration tools to build more sophisticated apps that tap multiple data sources.
AI agents booming
The Boomi Agentstudio has been around in beta for a while, where early adopters knew it as the Boomi AI Studio. It’s an AI agent lifecycle management platform that provides a no-code interface for designing, building, managing and governing AI agents that take advantage of its widespread integrations. Its AI agents can perform all manner of tasks, such as customer support and expense reporting automation, Boomi said.
Boomi’s new, multiyear collaboration with AWS means that Boomi Agentstudio can be used to manage and orchestrate AI agents that were built using the popular Amazon Bedrock platform. It’s also being integrated with Amazon Q to support the creation of AI agents more rapidly via a low-code interface.
The company said its customers have already built more than 33,000 AI agents using Boomi Agentstudio, and now it’s offering a suite of its own, prebuilt agents that are capable of automating complex tasks, streamlining business processes and accelerating integration. They’re being made available to all Boomi Enterprise customers free of charge.
They include a new integration adviser, which helps out by autonomously reviewing integration processes and providing feedback on their efficiency and maintainability. There’s also a new application programming interface design agent that can help users to create and edit APIs by automatically generating the required specifications. Others include the API documentation agent that will generate technical documentation for any API, and a data connector agent that can build “connectors” for any REST-based information source, the company said.
To further empower its AI agents, Boomi has announced support for the increasingly popular and open-source Model Context Protocol that was first developed by Anthropic PBC. MCP provides a standardized interface for integrating large language models with external data and development tools, so AI applications – including AI agents – can safely retrieve data from external sources and work with third-party tools.
Boomi said it’s incorporating native MCP support throughout the Boomi Enterprise platform, as a primary protocol for process execution. For instance, the Boomi Agentstudio will leverage MCP to enable agents to search for, discover and use third-party data and tools.
Finally, Boomi announced the availability of a new service called Boomi Data Integration. Based on the technology of a company called Rivery Technologies Ltd. that Boomi acquired in December, it enables customers to automate the creation of data pipelines to accelerate data analytics. It will also help to expand the capabilities of AI agents by giving them access to even more data, the company said.
Boomi Chief Executive Steve Lucas said the company’s agentic AI innovations are part of an effort to help companies deal with overwhelming data sprawl and digital fragmentation. “The future belongs to organizations that can intelligently connect everything and automate anything, and Boomi is the platform that makes it happen,” he said.
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