Larry Dignan

At Boomi World 2026, the enterprise integration and data activation company’s product keynote surfaced a bevy of high-level takeaways that enterprise buyers need to think about as they navigate rapidly evolving agentic AI trends.

Boomi has 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.

Enterprise integration and data activation company Boomi has announced plans to acquire Lunar.dev, in a move that aims to bring intelligent model and prompt routing as well as governed agent connectivity to its platform.

Boomi customers are increasingly using the company’s platform as more than a narrow integration platform and focusing on AI agent use cases.

Google Cloud’s partnership with Citigroup is starting to pay off as Citi Wealth, a unit of Citibank, launched an AI agent that utilizes Google’s Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform and forward-deployed engineers (FDEs).

Agentic AI is shifting from experimental to production in enterprises, and Google Cloud is touting its integrated AI stack, including next-gen Tensor Processing Units (TPUs), data platform, and agent layer. To go along with those moves, Google Cloud is building its ecosystem and ground game to target industries and…

Merck will build an agentic AI platform on Google Cloud across its research and development, manufacturing, commercial operations, and corporate functions in a deal valued up to $1 billion.

Macy’s has rolled out a Google Cloud–powered AI agent called Ask Macy’s, a concierge that leverages multimodal capabilities to move sales along and sort through the retailer’s 2.5 million stock-keeping units (SKUs).

Certinia recently launched Veda, an intelligent operations engine comprising a suite of AI agents and actions that sit on top of its professional services automation (PSA) platform.

Zillow, a leading real estate marketplace and media company, is betting that AI will be a boon to its business, both internally and in customer experiences, thanks to a hefty dose of proprietary data, context, and the ability to tailor its own large language models (LLMs).

Anthropic is a) a software-as-a-service (SaaS) killer, b) a disruptor of multiple industries with its Claude large language model (LLM) and the agentic apps built around it, c) an ingredient brand for enterprise software, d) already part of the enterprise technology establishment via a well-worn SaaS playbook, or e)…

Software-as-a-service (SaaS) companies are being repriced, reevaluated, and rethought as analysts, investors, and customers wonder how artificial intelligence (AI) agents will affect the category. CxOs need to go through the same exercise to make sure that they don’t get stuck as enterprise software is disrupted.