Boomi, the data activation company for AI, has announced major platform innovations designed to solve critical barriers to enterprise AI adoption. At the core of these updates is Boomi's Agent Control Plane, AI-native infrastructure that securely connects AI agents to core business systems, provides governance over agent activity, and controls runaway AI costs.
This critical infrastructure runs flexibly across public cloud, the customer's own cloud (VPC), or on-premises, directly supporting data and digital sovereignty, and giving organizations greater operational control over their AI estate.
According to Gartner, "By 2027, 40% of enterprises will demote or decommission autonomous AI agents due to governance gaps identified only after production incidents occur." Boomi's Agent Control Plane addresses the governance gap that stalls enterprise AI by centralizing visibility for agents and tools through an AI gateway enforcement layer, curbing token cost overruns and mandating human-in-the-loop approvals.
Boomi's Agent Control Plane delivers maximum flexibility and choice by securely governing agents, tools, and models across the ecosystem, including bring-your-own-models (BYOM) and specialized SLMs. This governance operates within private networks or regional boundaries to reinforce data sovereignty, protect sensitive IP behind corporate firewalls, and optimize compute costs.
AI adoption is rapidly outpacing governance. Enterprises are moving agents into production faster than they can see what those agents are doing, what they cost, or what happens when one touches the wrong system. That gap introduces severe operational, financial, and security risks: unpredictable token spend, loss of proprietary intellectual property, compliance exposure, and no single view of what AI is doing inside the business.
Organizations should not have to choose between moving fast on AI and keeping control of their data and infrastructure. AI agents need deep access to core transactional systems such as Salesforce, SAP, Oracle, and Workday to deliver real business value, but granting that access without dedicated policy enforcement and strict boundary controls exposes critical corporate intellectual property to public models and unauthorized data leaks.
In the FinOps Foundation's 2026 State of FinOps survey of 1,192 practitioners representing more than $83 billion in annual cloud spend, 98% said they now manage AI spend, up from 31% two years earlier. In "The Agentic AI Readiness Gap," a Forrester Consulting thought leadership paper commissioned by Boomi in July 2026, 86% of leaders said their organizations had moved beyond AI agent pilots, but only 34% said they trust the actions their agentic systems take.
"The governance conversation has shifted from model risk to execution risk. Enterprises are no longer primarily worried about what an agent says. They are worried about what it does to a general ledger or a customer record," said Michael Barnes, Chief Analyst, Enterprise IT, Omdia.
Boomi's Agent Control Plane acts as a vendor- and model-neutral control point sitting directly between any AI agent, model or app and the transactional systems that run the business. Boomi operationalizes enterprise AI across six core business scenarios:
1. Govern agent actions and control sprawl - Centralizes visibility for agents and tools, inspects live traffic, applies identity and rate limits, curbs token overruns and holds high-risk transactional actions for human approval via Boomi AI Gateway built on Lunar.dev acquisition.
2. Connect AI to enterprise systems safely - Boomi Connect exposes enterprise systems as governed MCP servers and tools that MCP-compatible agents can discover and call, with 1,000+ pre-built MCP servers for Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini.
3. Run agents behind your own firewall - Hybrid runtime architecture securely running agents, BYOM and SLMs within private networks and regional boundaries for data sovereignty compliance.
4. Ground answers in business truth & lineage - Reduces hallucinations and token waste by grounding reasoning in expert-endorsed business definitions and end-to-end data lineage via Agent Context.
5. Turn intent into approved workflows - Boomi Orchestrate lets non-technical teams compose multi-system agentic workflows in natural language with business and technical views for alignment.
6. Open the platform for builders - Expanded APIs, Companion skills, programmatic orchestration and agent trust scoring to scale operations.
"Two years ago, 31% of FinOps practitioners were managing AI spend. This year it is 98%. Finance has arrived in the middle of every AI conversation, and it is asking three questions most architectures cannot answer: which agent spent this, on what, and who approved it," said Steve Lucas, chairman and chief executive officer, Boomi. "Control is not the brake on enterprise AI. It is what makes scale possible."
About Boomi
Boomi, the data activation company for AI, powers the agentic enterprise by bringing data to life across the business. Trusted by over 30,000 customers and supported by a network of 800+ partners, Boomi helps organizations of all sizes achieve agility, efficiency, and innovation at scale.
