Frictionless AI agent creation has become the new reality since the advent of vibecoding. The technical challenges involved with development, deployment, and maintenance have diminished to the point where mass creation of AI agents is possible. Similar to the API and data proliferation waves, the proliferation of agents deployed at scale also results in a sprawl problem. While agents are intended to increase productivity, agent sprawl does the exact opposite by forcing organizations to spend more time managing a workforce of agents. So what does an ideal workflow look like? Let’s walk through how to activate data using agents by setting up data pipelines to fuel agents and governing agents at scale.
1. ELT Data Pipelines to Fuel Agents
The garbage in, garbage out concept with regard to data still stands in the agentic era. After all, agents should be operating with the freshest data available for accuracy and productivity. This is where ELT data pipelines help. Boomi Data Integration offers log-based change data capture (CDC) for dozens of data sources and event-based CDC for SAP data. CDC pipelines ensure the cloud data platform connected to your agent stays up-to-date with the latest data. Taking a practical example, the Data Connector Agent can be used to create a custom data pipeline for sales transcripts within Gong to be ingested into Snowflake. A Snowflake Cortex agent can then be created and powered by the Gong data.
2. Agent Control Tower to Govern Agents
After creating a Snowflake Cortex agent connected to Gong data within Snowflake, the agent can be synchronized to Agent Control Tower by adding your Snowflake account. Agent Control Tower helps monitor, manage, and govern all your agents from any provider to support a best-of-breed agent workforce. This effectively solves the risks involved in agent sprawl with a single control plane that provides full AI agent lifecycle management.
The agents page enables you to see all of your agents in a single view. You’re able to visually identify which agents are being invoked the most and see the average processing time, making it a perfect view to determine which agents are truly impactful. To effectively manage your agents, filter them by attributes such as provider or model and even group them by custom tags to categorize them. Then, drill down to the agent level to see what tools are assigned and instructions are used by each agent.
Note: Agent Control Tower is provider-agnostic supporting agents from Boomi Agent Garden, Amazon Bedrock, Microsoft Copilot, Snowflake Cortex, Salesforce Agentforce, and others via custom agent providers.
3. Agentic Workflows for Data Activation
With Agent Control Tower in place, you can confidently create agentic workflows by embedding agents in Boomi Integration or Data Integration. Do more than use the Snowflake Cortex agent as a chat assistant to understand the business. By embedding it into business processes within Data Integration’s orchestration workflow, the Cortex agent can autonomously handle tasks such as calculating sales propensity scores from Gong sales transcripts. The propensity insights can then be pushed to enrich Salesforce. If there are any agent anomalies, you’ll be able to identify which ones with Agent Control Tower monitoring your agent workforce.
Complex multi-step agentic workflows are possible, however, Agent Control Tower makes them practical at scale. The Boomi Enterprise Platform has over 75,000 agents in production that manage critical workloads across Fortune 500 and Global 2000 organizations. Do more than use AI agents as chat assistants. Turn them into agentic workflows for real hyperproductivity. You can overcome agent sprawl confidently knowing that Boomi Agentstudio handles full AI agent lifecycle management for you.
Overcome Agent Sprawl With Governance and Data Activation
Agent sprawl is inevitable when AI agent creation becomes frictionless. Without enterprise data pipelines, lifecycle governance, and embedded workflows, organizations risk turning AI acceleration into operational drag.
By fueling agents with real-time ELT pipelines and managing them through Agent Control Tower, organizations can transform scattered agents into a governed, high-performing agent workforce. Instead of chat assistants operating in isolation, you gain orchestrated, data-driven agentic workflows that activate business outcomes at scale.
Ready to eliminate agent sprawl and activate AI with confidence? Take a product tour to see how it all works or explore Boomi Agent Control Tower within Boomi Agentstudio to centralize governance, monitor performance, and scale agentic workflows across your enterprise.