Boomi builds out data-to-agent platform, says welcome to headless party

Boomi fleshed out its governed data-to-agent platform anchored on data activation, a headless enterprise architecture, connectivity, context-driven data layer and hybrid agentic AI workflow orchestration.

At Boomi World 2026 in Chicago, the company fleshed out its recent move to become a data activation company. The Boomi Enterprise Platform expansion includes new capabilities for agentic workflow orchestration, AI agent engineering, governance and connectivity as well as grounded context and agents that can run locally.

• Boomi adds data readiness, activation to its enterprise platform
• Boomi CEO on data movement, wrangling AI agents and SaaS

Ed Macosky, Chief Product and Technology Officer at Boomi, said during an analyst briefing that the company has evolved beyond iPass to a new role that revolves around activating data and getting it where it needs to go to be utilized by AI agents. “The way we see our role in the market is that we bring data to life through integration and governance, and we power everything from AI to BI or anything that we can help activate that data for the business,” said Macosky, who noted that in the big picture Boomi is designed to move AI to production from pilots and proofs of concept.

Macosky added that agentic AI has reached its platform moment now that Model Context Protocol (MCP) is a standard. He added that the updates to the Boomi Enterprise Platform are designed to move enterprises to a headless agentic AI infrastructure yet keep a lid on surging cloud costs and governance concerns.

At Boomi World 2025, the company outlined its AI agents, frameworks and workflow orchestration efforts. Now those products are fueling production workloads. Those implementations pushed Boomi to focus on data movement and activation. Boomi still has its integration platform as a service as well as its connectivity and orchestration engines, but the addition revolves around data activation.

“AI agents need more than connected systems and workflows. They need real time data access, context and intelligent orchestration,” said Macosky.

Boomi can also deliver its platform with a headless approach, which is becoming critical for enterprise software vendors. Boomi has been headless since inception, well before it became something trendy to do. “We've been working in a headless world, and this is our community's time to shine. The world is going headless,” said Macosky.

He isn’t wrong. Some rip and read headlines that revolve around headless platform efforts include:

• ServiceNow Knowledge 2026: AI Control Tower, Action Fabric, Autonomous Workforce and more
• Salesforce launches Agentforce Operations
• Why Salesforce Headless 360 matters
• SaaS under the microscope: How to evaluate your vendor

Rest assured that by the end of 2026, most enterprises software vendors will have some headless play.

“You now have this decomposition of SaaS and applications into a headless manner and Boomi is the active data foundation for any AI consumer,” said Macosky.

Steve Lucas, Boomi CEO, said: "We’re entering the next phase of enterprise AI, where success won’t be defined by how many agents you deploy, but by how well they are connected, governed, and grounded in trusted data."

Lucas said during his keynote that Boomi moves twice the amount of data per second than Visa does every day. "We are way more about the journey for your data than the destination," said Lucas.

Boomi has scale with more than 30,000 customers. Macosky said the secret sauce for Boomi isn’t necessarily the raw number of AI agents on its platform, but the number of fully audited, managed and governed agents. Boomi is integrating new AI developments into its platform as fast as they appear. The company has more than 1,500 branded and named connectors as well as integrations with Amazon Web Services, Salesforce, Snowflake and a bevy of others including Anthropic’s Claude Code.

Boomi is also planning to meet customers where they are with long-term customers as well as new AI-native customers. “Many of our net new use cases are in AI, and our new customers are coming to us for our AI messaging, our products, etc. But it's an interesting dynamic that it takes a little more work with us, with our existing customers,” said Macosky.

Here’s a look at the news at Boomi World 2026, which revolves around connectivity, knowledge and data context and orchestration. The following launches at Boomi World ride shotgun to Boomi Control Tower enhancements for observability and agent governance.

Boomi Connect, a governed model context protocol service for AI interfaces. Boomi Connect is positioned as a managed MCP service that securely bridges major AI interfaces to enterprise systems, with governance and no custom plumbing.

According to Macosky, Boomi Connect is designed to handle turning points in the AI market and bridges the leading AI interfaces to more than 1,000 enterprise tools. Boomi Connect is designed to be headless and secure and an entry point into the MCP ecosystem.

Boomi's MCP Registry centralizes MCP servers across Boomi and third party registries.

Knowledge Hub. Boomi Knowledge Hub builds on the company’s existing context layer that’s led by Data Hub, which is used to clean, dedupe and govern data, and Meta Hub, which provides shared definitions.

Macosky said Knowledge Hub, which debuts at Boomi World 2026, takes unstructured data including policies and documents and institutional information and makes it agent ready. Knowledge Hub is a governed semantics layer that’s part of the core Boomi platform and not an add-on. In a nutshell, Knowledge Hub is a fully managed RAG service.

Knowledge Hub and Meta Hub are Boomi's context entrants.

Boomi Orchestrate is designed to be an agent and workflow orchestration design layer that inspects existing assets and lets business and IT users design cross platform tools in natural language. Macosky said Boomi Orchestrate is not just AI agent orchestration but a hybrid and deterministic automation platform.

According to Boomi, Boomi Orchestrate will publish prebuilt vertical solutions focused on retail, manufacturing, healthcare and higher ed with more available in Boomi’s marketplace.

Boomi also announced Agent SIM (Labs Innovation preview), which enables enterprises to simulate and validate agent behavior before deployment.

Boomi Companion, a new developer experience. Boomi Companion is a set of agent skills and plug-ins that let developers work from their preferred AI coding tools such as Claude Code, GitHub and OpenAI Codex. The Boomi developer strategy revolves around offering low-friction access to the platform.

Also on the agent engineering front, Boomi announced Embedding Agentstudio Agents, which activates agetns where your team works with new APIs and embedding tools. Developers can invoke Boomi agents from any architecture or pipeline, while non-technical users can securely surface them within custom apps, portals, and digital experiences.

In addition, Boomi is emphasizing Distributed Agent Runtime with a focus on hybrid cloud and on-prem deployments. Boomi Distributed Agent Runtime enables customers to run agents locally in their own infrastructure, solves for data residency, resiliency and cloud cost concerns and runs agents behind the firewall. Boomi also launched Agentstudio Multi-region Instances, which scale agents globally, but leave metadata and runtimes in specified regions for compliance.