Agentic AI protocols have coalesced around Anthropic's Model Context Protocol (MCP) and Google Cloud's Agent2Agent, but Boomi experts expect protocols to emerge to create a crowded field.
Boomi Innovation's Michael Bachman said:
"Now we're somewhere between seven to nine different agent to agent protocols. It seems like we're probably going to have a battle of who's going to win. The nice thing about all of these protocols is we can expose those APIs regardless of whichever type of protocol we're dealing with. It's how we're going to implement those protocols into the stack, platform, runtime, and different modules."
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Although MCP and A2A have wide support from enterprise vendors, there’s still more work to be done as inter-agent collaboration is sorted out.
Boomi's top protocols include:
Boomi's plan is to build those protocols into the broader platform. "Each of the modules within the platform itself will have some layer of agentic protocol associated with it in some way, shape or form," said Bachman.
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Bachman said that Boomi will be involved in AGNTCY for agent-to-agent communications. The company will have more to say about that protocol going forward.
Markus Müller of Boomi Innovation said the company is looking to build MCP into APIs and create a gateway that's enterprise grade.
"Just combining what we have with that API to MCP bridge, I think we will really hit the nerve with our customers, making sure they have the API in a shape that is consumable by AI agents and ready to be consumed by either direct access or MCP," said Müller.
For enterprises, MCP developments are like drinking from a firehouse. Müller said that enterprises will need to think through governance, integration and optimization as well as security.
