It’s a confusing moment for every business as we plunge headfirst into the agentic AI age.
The momentum is real as AI becomes more mainstream. Organizations are feeling tremendous pressure to build and use AI agents. Rarely does a day pass without a flurry of announcements from vendors introducing their new agents – AI software that can reason and complete tasks independently of humans to increase efficiency.
And yet, two things can be true at once. Agents hold both boundless possibility and risk. A tidal wave of agents is approaching. But the hard truth is that most businesses aren’t prepared for what’s already beginning to happen.
How will you manage agent sprawl and the complexity that accompanies it? How will you govern and monitor your agents? How will you know how many there are, where they’re located, what they’re doing, and if they’re hallucinating?
Boomi has a solution for that.
End-to-End AI Agent Lifecycle Management
We’re proud to introduce Boomi AI Studio. Boomi AI Studio is a one-stop shop for managing AI agents – whether you build them yourself, choose from Boomi’s growing suite of agents or any other third-party vendor, or any combination of those three options. Boomi AI Studio has four components: Agent Garden, Agent Designer, Agent Control Tower, and Agent Marketplace.
Let’s take a brief look at them.
Agent Garden
This personal space allows you to manage the entire AI agent lifecycle from design to testing to deployment. “Grow” a healthy and beneficial collection of AI agents by interacting with them using natural language, streamlining collaboration, and executing AI-driven tasks in a safe environment.
Agent Designer
Businesses can use pre-built, low-code templates to build and deploy AI agents. Or they can create agents from scratch with assistance from AI to accelerate the process. You have the flexibility and the tools to design agents grounded in your trusted data and with enterprise-grade security guardrails. Get your agents up and running faster to see value quicker and show provable ROI – in a governed, responsible, and scalable manner.
Agent Control Tower
Securely manage your agents from Boomi or third-party providers, such as Amazon Bedrock agents, with a centralized agent registry. Once agents are deployed, you have complete visibility and control over them, proactively monitoring everything they do. You can detect problems and discover anomalies. Agent Control Tower mitigates security and compliance risks with universal governance so businesses can confidently manage their entire agentic ecosystem.
Agent Marketplace
Like an app store for mobile devices, this central hub resides in Boomi Marketplace (formerly Boomi Discover). It provides access to off-the-shelf and customizable AI agents from Boomi and our trusted network of innovation partners.
There’s a critical need for an AI Management (AIM) solution like this that provides strategic oversight and optimization of agents throughout their lifecycle. It aligns AI initiatives with business goals while promoting ethical and responsible AI use.
Agent sprawl will be impossible to avoid as employees independently adopt AI tools, bypassing established IT security protocols, perhaps without even realizing it. This emerging problem will lead to increased “shadow” agents, digital complexity, and costly security failures. Boomi AI Studio prevents that with enhanced AI reliability and risk mitigation while building trust in AI agents.
The Agentic Future
The agents just aren’t coming. They’re here. You’re probably already grappling with how to manage them. This is just the beginning. Gartner predicts that 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 Also, McKinsey & Company has estimated that generative AI’s impact on productivity could add the equivalent of $2.6 trillion to $4.4 trillion annually to the global economy.2
Agent proliferation will drive that trend. Fleets of agents likely will soon outnumber your human employees. Getting the most from these helpful digital teammates will require oversight as they assist humans in working smarter. Businesses need to ready themselves for this new reality.
Boomi has long been a connectivity leader, with more than 20 years of experience solving problems related to integration and automation, data management, and API management. Now, we’re connecting businesses to an agentic future. Seamlessly orchestrating these elements can prevent the looming chaos within your digital architecture.
Boomi AI Studio’s radically different approach to managing virtual coworkers reduces uncertainty by designing, governing, and orchestrating all your AI agents at scale. They’ll be in one place, can talk to one another, and be visible so humans can watch what they’re doing. It allows you to avoid potential chaos as you navigate the agentic AI age.
Change always leads to confusion. The technology world is moving incredibly fast, and no one can say what the agentic future will look like. Yet every CIO is still mandated to get AI into business workflows to eliminate static, brittle processes. The key is a flexible, cohesive foundation that enables you to adapt to whatever comes next and replace confusion with confidence.
Boomi AI Studio unlocks your AI journey as you move from “I don’t know” to “Let’s go!” Welcome to the world of possibility.
Request early access to Boomi AI Studio at boomi.com/ai-studio
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1. Gartner, Intelligent Agents in AI Really Can Work Alone. Here’s How, By Tom Coshow, October 1, 2024.
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2. McKinsey & Company, The economic potential of generative AI: The next productivity frontier, June 14, 2023