In today’s hyperconnected enterprise, data is everywhere. The average organization juggles a staggering number of applications, data stores, and APIs — often numbering in the hundreds, if not thousands. While standard connectors can handle the big, popular platforms, a huge amount of valuable data remains locked away in niche, custom, or less-common “long-tail” sources.
For data teams, this creates a major bottleneck. Every new analytics project or AI initiative that needs data from one of these long-tail sources means another manual, time-consuming integration project. It involves deciphering complex API documentation, writing custom code, and wrestling with maintenance every time an API changes. This isn’t just inefficient; it’s a direct roadblock to innovation.
But what if you could generate a fully functional data connector in minutes, simply by pointing an AI agent at the API documentation? That’s exactly what we’ve built with the new Boomi Data Connector Agent.
The Problem: Long-Tail Data Sprawl
Modern analytics and agentic AI that are using retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) pipelines have incredible potential. These systems can provide deep insights and automate complex tasks. However, they are only as good as the data they can access. So when a significant portion of your data is trapped in long-tail applications, your AI’s potential is capped.
Building custom connectors is a resource-draining cycle that ties up your most skilled data engineers in repetitive, low-value work. Projects are inevitably delayed, and the full potential of your data and AI investments remains unrealized. As we move from the age of digital transformation to the age of agentic transformation, solving this data access problem is fast becoming a necessity.
The Solution: Use AI to Get Data for AI
The Boomi Data Connector Agent is designed to shatter this bottleneck. It’s an AI-powered agent that understands API documentation and autonomously generates custom data connectors, or what we call blueprints.
By leveraging AI to automate the most tedious parts of data integration, Boomi is enabling organizations to build custom data connections up to 30x faster.
How the Boomi Data Connector Agent Empowers Your Data Teams
1. The Simple Path: Generate Connectors in Minutes
For many standard REST APIs, the process is astonishingly simple. A data analyst or citizen integrator can provide the Data Connector Agent with a public URL to the API documentation. The agent then:
- Reads and understands the API’s structure, endpoints, and authentication methods
- Generates a complete connector configuration (a YAML Blueprint)
- Makes the new data source available within the Boomi Data Integration service, ready to be used in a pipeline
What used to take days or weeks of a developer’s time can now be accomplished in minutes, freeing up your team to focus on generating insights, not just moving data.
2. The Power Path: Customize for Advanced Use Cases
The real power of the Data Connector Agent lies in its flexibility. The output isn’t a locked-down black box; it’s a human-readable and fully editable YAML Blueprint. This means your data engineers can take the agent’s output and easily customize it to handle more complex scenarios.
A perfect example is when you need to iterate over multiple endpoints to gather a complete dataset. Imagine you need to:
- Call a primary API endpoint to get a list of all project IDs.
- Loop over each ID from that list.
- Call a secondary, detailed API endpoint for each individual project ID to retrieve its specific data.
Instead of writing complex custom scripts, an engineer can take the agent-generated blueprint and simply add a looping step in the YAML. The agent does the heavy lifting of understanding the base API, and the engineer makes a small, targeted modification to orchestrate the advanced workflow. This combination of AI-driven generation and human-in-the-loop customization provides both incredible speed and limitless power.
Get Started With the Data Connector Agent
The age of agentic transformation requires that we have fast, reliable, and trusted data from all our sources. The Boomi Data Connector Agent is a revolutionary step toward making that a reality, ensuring that your analytics and AI initiatives are fueled by the complete, comprehensive data they need to succeed.
Ready to see the Boomi Data Connector in action and learn how to build your own custom connectors in minutes? Watch the full launch webinar and demo here!