- Companies are deploying AI tools like Claude Cowork and Gemini to make their employees more productive; they’re also deploying other MCP-enabled AI tools to solve domain-specific business problems.
- Without new integrations, these AI tools can’t access all the applications and data sources employees work with every day, leaving these tools disconnected from everyday business operations.
- Boomi Connect is a Model Context Protocol (MCP) gateway service that connects AI tools securely to thousands of applications and data sources with ready-to-use connectors, providing secured, governed AI access to the applications and data employees work with every day.
Frontier AI vendors have launched AI desktop tools such as Claude Cowork and Gemini that promise to make employees in every department more informed, creative, productive, and efficient. But many IT and security teams are reluctant to deploy these tools at scale if data access and token usage can’t be governed and secured. No one wants desktop tools to break the bank on token usage or to violate security protocols or HR policies with a query.
Another challenge? Connectivity. These tools work with Model Context Protocol (MCP), which has become an industry standard protocol for enabling AI agents to discover and access applications, APIs, and types of tools. But MCP itself doesn’t provide access to the countless business applications that employees interact with every day — applications that include Salesforce, NetSuite, Oracle, SAP, and Workday.
Nor does an AI tool’s MCP interface provide easy access to countless department-specific applications and data sources. To build connections for all those applications and data sources for even a single AI tool would require dozens or even hundreds of new integration projects. And that work would need to be repeated for every other AI tool needing access. Few IT teams have the time and resources to take on such massive development projects.
Because of these challenges, there’s a gap between the promise of these new AI tools and the reality of the disconnected applications and data that drive everyday operations. That gap is visible in AI projects that yield little ROI, and in AI tools that reason and create without access to the applications and data that employees need to work with most.
Here’s the opportunity: If connections to those hundreds of applications and data sources were suddenly available, the power of AI would be extended not just to high-priority agentic workflows and public chatbots, but to every desktop in the organization.
In other words, all that stands between making today’s powerful AI platforms as widespread and accessible as word processors and spreadsheets are two things: connectivity and governance.
Introducing Boomi Connect, a Managed MCP Connector Service for the Enterprise
Boomi Connect is a managed MCP connector service that closes the gap between AI tools and the data and applications that drive a company’s business. Boomi Connect gives any authorized AI tool (such as Claude, Copilot, Gemini, or custom agents) instant, governed access to over 1,000 enterprise tools through a single, managed endpoint. By building security, governance, and credential management into every connection from day one, Boomi Connect frees enterprises to instantly deploy AI safely in the hands of knowledge workers, without compromising control or creating new risk for IT.
Boomi Connect addresses the key challenges AI leaders and IT teams face when rolling out AI tools with the goals of increasing speed, efficiency, and profitability. It simplifies work for IT and security teams, while greatly expanding the scope of what AI tools can do within an enterprise. This matters because until now, most AI tools have fallen short of expectations. An MIT NANDA study found that 95% of AI projects have yielded no ROI. And Forrester Research has found that only 15% of organizations have realized any EBITDA lift from AI.
Boomi Connect enables knowledge workers to pull data safely from enterprise systems directly into their AI tools, bringing the power of AI to everyday work. At the same time, Connect gives IT and security teams fine-grained control to grant access to applications and data sources based on OAuth security and tool-based provisioning.
Economics matter in any IT deployment, especially in deployments at scale. Using Connect, administrators can throttle token usage to ensure it stays within prescribed limits. They can also monitor connector usage to gain insights into adoption or possible policy violations.
Here’s an overview of key features of Boomi Connect and the benefits they deliver:
| Feature | Benefit |
| 1,000+ Tools Boomi Connect provides full support for hundreds of enterprise applications, and a curated starter kit of 10+ defined tools for each application. |
Connect spares IT the work of building and maintaining thousands of connectors. Knowledge workers get native access to enterprise systems on day 1. |
| Admin control center Boomi Connect streamlines administration with a searchable catalog of all available system actions, one-click deployment, and granular filtering for tools. |
IT can easily manage provisioning in a single platform across all AI tools, accelerating adoption and minimizing training requirements. Knowledge workers can access only what’s been provisioned for them, supporting data privacy and security rules. |
| Zero-touch credentials Identity provider-based provisioning and mapping (i.e., Okta, Microsoft Entra, Ping Identity), credential vaulting with OAuth token lifecycle and rotation, all through a Boomi-managed MCP gateway endpoint |
IT can easily provision specific access to users or groups, automatically applying access mapping from the organization’s identity provider (IDP) and then customizing access if necessary. |
| CISO-ready governance Boomi Connect logs every tool invocation and provides real-time usage metering and transparent pricing |
IT gets end-to-end visibility and auditability of AI tools, with predictable costs and usage monitoring. If something goes wrong, IT can find and resolve the issue quickly. |
| Enterprise-grade Security Taking advantage of Boomi’s 20+ years of experience building enterprise integration platforms, Boomi Connect benefits from technology that has earned 15+ security certifications — including ISO 42001 for AI management —while offering on-premises, hybrid, cloud, and multi-region deployment options. |
CISOs and security teams can be confident that the AI tools and data access are protected by rigorous security controls and compliant with leading regulations for enterprise IT and AI. |
Boomi Connect is a managed MCP connector service that can be used with or without the full Boomi Enterprise Platform. The service takes advantage of Boomi’s collection of hundreds of ready-to-use connectors as well as Boomi’s integration expertise.
AI Governance at Scale
MCP is the new industry standard for connecting AI agents and other AI applications to external tools and data. But a protocol alone is not a production-ready solution. Without managed access and comprehensive governance on top of MCP, enterprises face serious security and compliance risks.
Boomi Connect provides the AI governance and control that MCP lacks, enabling organizations to leverage MCP’s convenience and popularity while benefiting from rigorous governance and enterprise-grade scalability for AI tools and connections. Using Connect, organizations can activate AI at enterprise scale instantly and govern AI with confidence.
Until now, many organizations have had difficulty achieving ROI from AI, despite the remarkable progress of frontier AI models. Lack of integration with rich, contextual business data is a primary reason for that shortfall.
By providing instant connections and activating business data for MCP-compliant AI tools, Boomi Connect closes the gap between today’s most powerful AI tools and the data that drives business, creating the data-activated foundation that AI tools have been missing.
For more information, read the Boomi Connect Solution Brief.