The agentic enterprise is here — but it may be too soon for companies trying to protect their data from rogue artificial intelligence.

Boomi LP, which specializes in integration platform as a service, is positioned to address growing concerns around AI governance. The company’s vision was the “connected enterprise,” according to Steve Lucas, chief executive officer at Boomi. That has evolved into the automated enterprise and now, the agentic enterprise. The primary concern customers have is security.

“What we’re focused on end to end is how do we create containers for all these different types of agentic or … even frontier models,” Lucas said. “These open weight models, they’re extraordinarily good, but we got to containerize them. You don’t want to let an OpenClaw agent that can self-modify run loose in enterprise, not at least without a container and a kill switch.”

Lucas spoke with John Furrier, executive analyst at theCUBE Research, ahead of Boomi World, during an exclusive broadcast on theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s livestreaming studio. They discussed the development of an agentic enterprise and how Boomi is helping its customers manage both cost and security. (* Disclosure below.)

Securing the agentic enterprise

The rise of OpenClaw, an open-source AI agent, and NemoClaw, Nvidia Corp.’s version of OpenClaw, has many companies scrambling to develop a new AI strategy but the first step has to be deploying agents safely, according to Lucas.

OpenClaw has already opened the doors to software vulnerabilities across the enterprise world, leaving chief information and chief technology officers concerned.

“The execution risk is real,” Lucas said. ‘We have companies today that are using Boomi to just look after the agents that are entering their enterprise. They’re finding DeepSeek agents popping up like popcorn. Somebody … buil[ds] a little agent leveraging DeepSeek on a laptop that’s not inventoried — they’ve just exposed their entire enterprise. The risk is real.”

Last year, Boomi released Agentstudio, a suite of agentic products including an Agent Control Tower for monitoring and governing AI agents within one unified space. Any agentic strategy needs to have layered guardrails and containerized environments, especially in the early stages of AI deployment, Lucas explained.

“Think about when a compliance call happens,” he said. “How do you know what a black box agent is even doing inside of your organization? So, that control layer that we have, that thousands of our customers are using, that’s what you need, but you’ve got to put the policy in place today.”

AI expenses spark concern

The other part of the agentic enterprise equation is managing costs. Companies are now finding out that they spent 10 times the usual amount on AI last year, according to Lucas. With AI infrastructure spending not slowing down any time soon, companies are starting to feel nervous.

“What people want is a way to embrace AI, but security paramount, management paramount and cost is paramount as well,” Lucas said. “The vast majority of people that I talk to, it’s as soon as you get through the security and how we’re going to run it … it’s cost, cost and more cost.”

At the same time, enterprise companies’ human employees are starting to wonder if there’s still a place for them. AI operations is at the intersection between humans and agents, a new field that manages the ever-growing complexity of the agentic enterprise.

“AIOps has to be a thing,” Lucas said. “There’s a million [AI] companies out there. The choices are near infinite. But the real question is, who is that person that’s tasked with bringing it all together? And then, number two, how do you manage that so you get the most efficient output for your organization? The framework has to exist for all of it.”

TheCUBE event livestream

Don’t miss theCUBE’s coverage of Boomi World from May 13-14. Plus, you can watch theCUBE’s exclusive content on-demand after the event.

How to watch theCUBE interviews

We offer you various ways to watch theCUBE’s coverage of Boomi World, including theCUBE’s dedicated website and YouTube channel. You can also get all the coverage from this year’s events on SiliconANGLE.

TheCUBE podcasts

SiliconANGLE’s “theCUBE Pod” is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify and YouTube, which you can enjoy while on the go. During each podcast, SiliconANGLE’s John Furrier and Dave Vellante unpack the biggest trends in enterprise tech — from AI and cloud to regulation and workplace culture — with exclusive context and analysis.

SiliconANGLE also produces our weekly “Breaking Analysis” program, where Dave Vellante examines the top stories in enterprise tech, combining insights from theCUBE with spending data from Enterprise Technology Research, available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify and YouTube.

Guests

During Boomi World, theCUBE analysts will talk with Boomi executives, enterprise customers, integration leaders and AI practitioners to explore how organizations are securing, governing and scaling agentic systems across increasingly complex environments.

Here’s the complete pre-event 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, the sponsor of theCUBE’s event coverage, nor other sponsors have editorial control over content on theCUBE or SiliconANGLE.)

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