Boomi CEO: The agents are ready, but the enterprise data foundation beneath them might not be
Somewhere inside every large company, there is a long list of AI pilots — promising, applauded, then quietly shelved. The culprit, more often than not, is a data activation failure.
The gap between AI ambition and enterprise reality is widening as organizations struggle with legacy systems and shadow AI building inside every business function. Boomi LP has positioned itself squarely in the center of that gap, framing data activation— getting the right data to the right systems at machine speed — as the unglamorous prerequisite that makes agentic AI viable in production, according to Boomi Chief Executive Officer Steve Lucas (pictured).
“Last year we were talking about AI agents — and honestly, the year before that as well,” Lucas said. “This year, the agents aren’t coming. They’re here. AI is starting to become not just a pervasive conversation in the enterprise — it is being deployed. It is real. We’re starting to see real ROI coming from AI and agents in enterprise processes, integrations and automations.”
Lucas spoke with theCUBE’s John Furrier and Gemma Allen at Boomi World 2026, during an exclusive broadcast on theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s livestreaming studio. They discussed data activation, AI governance, the future of the enterprise builder persona and Boomi’s strategy for harnessing AI at scale. (* Disclosure below.)
