API management powers enterprise automation shift – News

API management is fast becoming the linchpin of modern enterprise automation.

As companies evolve from system integration to orchestrating intelligent, AI-driven workflows, the need for robust governance and interoperability is paramount. Platforms that unify API management with automation and agentic design are now essential, enabling teams to build scalable, secure and business-aligned digital ecosystems, according to Ed Macosky (pictured), chief product and technology officer of Boomi LP.

“These agents that our customers are building are solving real business problems,” Macosky said. “We’re supercharging and making our product managers superhuman as well.”

Macosky spoke with theCUBE’s Savannah Peterson and Paul Nashawaty at Boomi World, during an exclusive broadcast on theCUBE, News Media’s livestreaming studio. They discussed how Boomi is evolving API management into a central layer of enterprise automation, combining low-code agent design, governance tools and open standards to support scalable, secure and intelligent digital ecosystems. (* Disclosure below.)

API management and agent governance fuel business-ready automation

Boomi’s latest announcements position API management as a core pillar of its platform, tightly integrated with tools such as its newly GA agent designer. This low-code builder lets users deploy automations and agents on top of the Boomi platform, empowering broader participation while relying on APIs to stitch together systems, data and services, according to Macosky.

“The agent designer is a low-code way that allows our users to build agents on top of essentially the connectivity and the fabric that they built with the Boomi platform today,” he said. “It also allows developers or citizens or normal human beings … to build agents in a low-code way across our platform.”

That accessibility is grounded in a rigorous governance model. Boomi’s Agent Control Tower helps IT and security teams catalog, monitor and manage the growing fleet of agents and API-driven services. This allows enterprises to scale innovation without losing sight of compliance and security, especially as these automations touch sensitive systems and data, Macosky explained.

“We focus at that lens in terms of if you’re going to build agents, do it in a low code way,” he said. “We have the Agent Control Tower that then captures them and puts those agents in a registry of sorts that give gives the security folks the ability to manage, govern them make sure they’re doing things appropriately in the organization.”

As part of its open, composable strategy, Boomi is also aligning API management with emerging industry standards such as the Model Context Protocol. Rather than building proprietary alternatives, the company focuses on integrating APIs and agent workflows across third-party models, cloud environments and development ecosystems, giving developers more flexibility and control, according to Macosky.

“All we are doing is simplifying the complexity around how you tie all these together and giving an experience that allows you to assemble the business outcomes with these technologies,” he said. “They can take all these tools, put them in place, build some foundational pieces, and then you can use the Boomi platform to unlock these in terms of delivering solutions within an organization.”

Here’s the complete video interview, part of News’s and theCUBE’s coverage of Boomi World:

(* Disclosure: TheCUBE is a paid media partner for Boomi World. Neither Boomi LP, the sponsor of theCUBE’s event coverage, nor other sponsors have editorial control over content on theCUBE or News.)

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