Lessons from early AI agent efforts so far
We dropped in on Boomi World 2025 to get a feel for what enterprises are doing in agentic AI and emerging best practices. Here’s a look at some early lessons to ponder.
Data to decisions examines the enablement of data-driven decisions across organizations. Holistic, data-informed decisions require a multi-disciplinary approach that combines performance monitoring with traditional business intelligence and analytic technologies. In addition, data-driven decisions are increasingly delivered in the context of business applications rather than in separate, analytic interfaces.
We dropped in on Boomi World 2025 to get a feel for what enterprises are doing in agentic AI and emerging best practices. Here’s a look at some early lessons to ponder.
Alibaba Cloud is seeing more AI workloads, accelerating revenue growth and benefiting from its Qwen open source family of models.
Salesforce is evolving its Agentforce pricing from a model based on $2 per conversation to a more flexible credit model. Ultimately, customers will be able to transition contracts to incorporate more credits.
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 CEO Steve Lucas talked about AI agents, orchestration, transformation, AWS and going to ServiceNow CRM to name just a few topics.
Boomi said that it has more than 33,000 Boomi AI Agents deployed across enterprises as it rolled out new agents for Boomi Enterprise and Boomi Agentstudio went generally available.
Databricks said it will acquire Neon, which offers serverless Postgres database services. Databricks' move into the database market is part of its plan to enable agentic AI workloads.
The Stargate Project is currently eyeing as many as three sites for AI data centers and Softbank executives said due diligence is currently underway on multiple proposals.
Asana and Monday.com are seeing customers increase use of AI actions as both companies--along with the likes of Atlassian and Smartsheet--aim to coordinate AI agents and humans.
Enterprises are pursuing AI agents as part of a broader transformation and automation push. Here’s a look at the projects we’re watching for May.