Application programming interfaces are foundational to enterprise DevOps, and their importance has only grown with the rise of artificial intelligence. Today, APIs serve as critical building blocks for modern large language models, according to Jaime Ryan (pictured, right), vice president of product management, Boomi API management, at Boomi LP.

Boomi’s Markus Muller discusses API management with theCUBE.

“Our focus has been on API management for a few years now, but with the rise of AI and the introduction of new ways to get at enterprise assets, it’s become actually more important than ever,” he said. “Making sure that you have the appropriate governance in place, making sure that you can make those assets available as tools: It means everything for agent-to-AI.”

Ryan and Markus Müller (left), global field chief technology officer of API Management at Boomi, spoke with theCUBE’s Savannah Peterson and Paul Nashawaty at Boomi World, during an exclusive broadcast on theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s livestreaming studio. They discussed how API management is evolving in response to the rapid acceleration of artificial intelligence, especially with emerging frameworks such as the Model Context Protocol. (* Disclosure below.)

AI integration is the bedrock of modern enterprise DevOps

AI relies on APIs to access data and perform tasks, making them essential to modern enterprise infrastructure. As companies ramp up their AI investments, interest in robust API management systems is rising in parallel, according to Muller.

“APIs are really fundamental — they’re enabling AI,” Muller said. “And as such, with all the investments going on in the AI space, there are suddenly also investments in API again. There are exciting times for us as API management, because we now have the opportunity to bring more of what we already did in the past years to a wider audience and also to different personas within our customers.”

API sprawl has been a key enterprise DevOps challenge, with disparate systems scattered across cloud and on-premise environments. Boomi’s federated API management capabilities offer a unified catalog of APIs that delivers full visibility and centralized governance, according to Ryan.

“If you can expose all the APIs that you have as tools, that’s going to make for better business outcomes when you build your agents,” he said. “Most of our customers have three, four or five different API management systems. By bringing all those things together through API Federation, having a catalog of all of your APIs, really getting that full visibility, then you can curate which of those APIs are best used as tools in an AI context.”

Here’s the complete video interview, part of SiliconANGLE’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 SiliconANGLE.)

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