Brickworks cuts integration delivery time from 80 days to 12. Wed, 2nd Sep 2026 (Today) Brickworks has overhauled its data integration architecture with Boomi and Atturra, cutting project delivery times from more than 80 days to 12. The Australian building products manufacturer also gained access to enterprise data that had previously been trapped in disconnected systems and documents. Brickworks, which owns brands including Austral Bricks, Bristile Roofing and Bowral Bricks, had relied on single-use point-to-point connections across its systems. That made it harder to share data across the business and increased the time and cost of building new integrations. The company employs about 1,800 people globally and operates manufacturing plants, design centres and retail outlets across Australia, New Zealand and North America. Its customers include builders, architects, developers, contractors, resellers and homeowners. Integration shift To address those constraints, Brickworks worked with software group Boomi and implementation partner Atturra to create a more reusable integration architecture. The project included linking its product information management system with its content management system. According to the companies, the new approach allowed Brickworks to set up 18 interfaces in 12 days, instead of following a more traditional build that could have taken more than 80 business days. The work also produced documentation intended to make later changes easier to manage. The overhaul supported a marketing integration tied to the migration of product data to a new website. Brickworks said the full set of integrations for that launch was delivered without disruption, despite a tight timetable and late changes. Platform usage rose 700 per cent, while costs increased 50 per cent, according to Brickworks. It said the gains reflected a shift to standard architectural patterns that reduced complexity and improved support. Procurement data The project also exposed procurement information that had not previously been available for analysis. Brickworks said it unlocked more than 40,000 spend records and captured line-level detail by extracting information from mailboxes and routing 135,000 PDF files through Azure Document Understanding. That has given teams a clearer view of spending patterns and supplier activity. Brickworks said the data is now being used for category management analysis and vendor negotiations. Keiren Lawrence, Chief Information Officer at Brickworks, described the change as part of a broader rethink of how the business uses data. "We wanted to essentially move our data onto highways, while also creating reuse and unlocking data that we couldn't previously access. This moved integration from a one-off background capability to a core strategic enabler for the team to really drive business outcomes from core technology," Lawrence said. Atturra said the work formed part of a longer-term transformation programme with the manufacturer. It had already been involved in rolling out Boomi across Brickworks' systems before implementing its own Atturra Integration Accelerator alongside Boomi Companion for the latest stage. Peter Savage, Field Chief Technology Officer for Data and Integration at Atturra, said the project met the targets set at the outset. "We've been working with Brickworks on business transformation and unlocking strategic business benefits by transforming and uplifting the application architecture and the integration," Savage said. "In addition to receiving the benefits of not having to move data by hand, Brickworks also unlocked future capabilities that will help it achieve its wider business goals," he said. "When we rolled out the Atturra Integration Accelerator with the Boomi Companion, we basically achieved every one of the goals that we set for ourselves, and it's been a tremendously successful partnership," Savage said. Lawrence said the integration platform had become an important part of Brickworks' technology strategy as usage expanded across the business. "Boomi is a really important part of our strategy, and gives us a controlled, scalable way to connect our systems and activate our data. Since modernising our integration architecture with Boomi, our platform usage has increased by 700 per cent, enabling teams to act faster and provide the correct data when and where it's needed, unlocking insights that just weren't possible before," Lawrence said. Boomi said the Brickworks project showed how manufacturers can use integration work to expose operational data that had previously been hard to reach. "Brickworks has demonstrated that when integration becomes a strategic capability, organisations can unlock the full value of their data," said David Irecki, Chief Technology Officer, APJ at Boomi. "Together with Atturra, we are proud to have helped Brickworks build a scalable, reusable integration foundation that enables faster delivery today while creating the trusted data needed to scale with confidence," he said.

Bakers Delight modernises digital marketing systems and accelerates deployment times with boomi. * September 2, 2026 08:11 GMT+700 Boomi enables Australian-owned bakery franchise to build a reusable integration architecture, connecting and activating customer data across systems Sydney-(ANTARA/Business Wire)- Boomi, the data activation company for AI, today announced Bakers Delight has modernised its digital marketing systems using the Boomi Enterprise Platform, significantly reducing new system rollout times and giving the business the agility to respond faster to changing market conditions. Bakers Delight is an Australian-owned multinational bakery franchise, trading as Bakers Delight in A/NZ and as COBS Bread in Canada and the US. The family-owned business has grown to more than 700 stores across the four countries, employing more than 10,000 people throughout its franchise network. Operating at this scale across multiple regions and brands generates large amounts of customer, pricing, product, and location data across front-of-store, ecommerce, and loyalty systems. To support day-to-day trading and rapid decision-making with shifting market needs, the data needs to flow consistently between systems and platforms. With a major technology renewal approaching in early 2027, Bakers Delight wanted to replace rigid, point-to-point integrations with a composable architecture that could connect new marketing platforms quickly and cost-effectively to support future growth. "We required a foundation that could support rapid, low-cost deployment of new systems - removing the cost and complexity of re-engineering integrations every time we added a new platform," said Keng Ng, Chief Technology Officer at Bakers Delight. "This laid the groundwork for the business to adopt new systems and capabilities quickly, without disrupting what's already in place." Bakers Delight implemented the Boomi Enterprise Platform Data Hub, and API Management capabilities across its customers, products, store locations, promotions, coupons, and orders processes as the business rolled out new platforms. Boomi now orchestrates data integration across the company's digital marketing stack, acting as the backbone that connects new platforms without requiring costly changes to core ERP and POS systems, including Microsoft Dynamics 365 Commerce. When deploying Talon.One for loyalty and promotions, and Shopify for ecommerce, Bakers Delight was able to reuse its existing customer, product, pricing, and location integrations, significantly reducing the time and cost of each implementation. "Because core integrations were built once and reused, every new platform was deployed significantly faster than expected, with Klaviyo live in just three months, Shopify in four and Talon.One in nine, across our global franchise network," said Ng. "Having centralised integration and master data has also proven critical when the business needs to act quickly across multiple systems." In early 2026, as geopolitical events in the Middle East created rapid cost fluctuations, Bakers Delight was able to revise pricing across systems quickly and consistently, a direct result of the centralised architecture now in place. While Bakers Delight has built up its own internal integration and data engineering capabilities, support from Boomi Consulting was key in getting the program off the ground. The blueprinting process quickly demonstrated its value, producing a stable and reliable system. Vendors of the new systems, including Klaviyo and Talon.One, provided their own internal resources to support implementation, while external partners were engaged for Shopify and Microsoft Dynamics 365 Commerce. "What started as a need to modernise quickly and affordably has become a platform that gets stronger with every addition, giving the business the agility to move faster and with more confidence each time," said Ng. This integration capability will remain central to how quickly Bakers Delight brings new systems into the business. As more of the organisation becomes connected, this will enable the capture of richer enterprise data, laying the groundwork for AI and AI agents to function effectively across the business. "Bakers Delight has demonstrated how treating integration as a strategic business capability enables organisations to innovate faster and respond with greater agility," said David Irecki, Chief Technology Officer, APJ at Boomi. "By building a reusable integration foundation, Bakers Delight can bring new digital capabilities to market faster while creating the trusted data foundation needed to support future innovation." 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Boomi's new AI Gateway can stop an agent mid-action. Enterprise AI · Agentic Governance AI agents running through Boomi's platform can now be stopped mid-action if something looks wrong, using technology from the Lunar.dev deal it announced four months ago at Boomi World 2026. By Shashi Bellamkonda · September 1, 2026 Companies Past the Testing Phase Companies That Trust Their AI Agents Extra Cost From Deploying Too Soon Boomi announced in Sydney that the AI agents running through its platform now have a watchdog, no matter who built the agent or which model powers it. Companies have spent the past two years connecting AI agents to real business systems, letting them update customer records, approve refunds, and move money between accounts. Most of those agents ran with no one checking what they did once they started acting. Boomi's new AI Gateway sits between every agent and the systems it touches, and it can stop an agent mid-action if that action looks wrong. The AI Gateway comes from Lunar.dev, the company Boomi acquired earlier this year, now built into what Boomi calls the Boomi Agent Control Plane. Boomi already tracked which agents customers had built and what those agents were supposed to do, through Agentstudio and Connect. The AI Gateway is the part that watches what those agents do in the moment, and can step in. An agent can now be stopped mid-action. Every AI agent connects to a company's software through the Model Context Protocol, a standard that lets an agent use a business tool the same way a person would click a button in it. Boomi has already built more than 1,000 of these connections through Boomi Connect, tied to a company's existing login system rather than loose API keys anyone could copy. What is new is what happens once an agent tries to act. The AI Gateway can cap how many actions an agent takes, cap how much it spends on AI processing, and hold an action for a person to approve before it goes through. Every one of those events gets logged in real time, as it happens. Most companies still cannot answer a basic question: what an agent did to a customer account last week, and who approved it. Cloud providers and AI model companies each keep their own partial record. Nobody has owned the full picture of an agent's action from start to finish, until this gateway sits in the middle of it. The trust gap is already costing money. Nearly every finance team is now watching AI spending specifically. In the FinOps Foundation's 2026 survey of 1,192 practitioners representing more than $83 billion in annual cloud spend, 98% said they actively manage AI costs, up from 31% two years earlier (FinOps Foundation, 2026). That happened faster than most finance teams were ready for, and it means AI budgets are getting real scrutiny now, not later. Trust is the harder problem to solve. A survey Boomi commissioned found 86% of companies had moved their AI agents past the testing phase into real use. Only 34% said they trust what those agents are doing. Companies that pushed agents into production before building that trust paid for it: an average of $2.1 million in extra cost from mistakes, rework, and cleanup (Forrester Consulting, 2026). Boomi built the AI Gateway to close that specific gap. Clear spending caps and an audit trail are supposed to be the reason a company trusts its agents with more work, faster than a company still guessing what its agents are doing. Bring your own model starts with Anthropic, OpenAI, and Gemini. Boomi's gateway is not tied to one AI provider. Companies can run agents built on models from Anthropic, OpenAI, or Google's Gemini, and route that traffic through the same gateway from launch. Companies can also run smaller, custom-built models directly inside Boomi's own infrastructure, whether that's public cloud, a company's own private cloud, or on-premises. That is a real bet on Boomi's part. Boomi doesn't build AI models, so it has no reason to steer customers toward one. The AI Gateway routes to whichever model a company already uses, and Boomi is betting companies will pay for the control point itself, independent of which model runs behind it. There is a financial reason behind that bet too. Running models inside a company's own private cloud or data center turns a variable, pay-per-use AI bill into a fixed cost a budget team can plan around. That is the case Boomi CEO Steve Lucas has been making publicly since his "Economics Always Wins" essay earlier this year. A company willing to route Anthropic and OpenAI traffic through its own gateway is betting the gateway matters more than any model that passes through it. A compliance officer wants data to stay inside company-controlled infrastructure. A finance leader wants a predictable AI bill instead of a variable one. Running models on a company's own infrastructure answers both, which is why finance now shows up early in Boomi's sales conversations. The enforcement is what a buyer should verify first. Boomi built a long list of features around the AI Gateway. Agent Context grounds an agent's answers in a company's own approved business definitions, so it is not guessing. Boomi Orchestrate lets non-technical staff describe a workflow in plain language and turns it into something agents can carry out. The Agent Trust Scorecard is a free, open-source tool that scores how ready a company's own setup is. Boomi says a person has to approve any high-risk action before an agent takes it, and every action gets recorded in one place, in real time. Whether that holds up under a real incident is the claim to test, not take on faith. A Boomi-commissioned survey found most companies have not tested it yet. CIO/CTO Viability Question Before you connect Anthropic, OpenAI, or Gemini traffic through Boomi's gateway, ask for redacted audit-trail examples from real production incidents, not a demo walkthrough, and check them against your own systems: does the record show which agent acted, what it touched, what it cost, and who approved it. A gateway that touches every model and every agent your company runs is worth trusting only if that record would hold up in your own audit, not just Boomi's. Boomi, LP. "Boomi Delivers the Critical Infrastructure That Brings Control To Enterprise AI." Boomi Newsroom, 1 Sept. 2026, https://boomi.com/resources/resources-library/boomi-infrastructure-enterprise-ai-control/. FinOps Foundation. "State of FinOps Survey: AI Value and Skills Top Priorities as FinOps Matures Across Technology." Linux Foundation, 19 Feb. 2026, https://www.linuxfoundation.org/press/state-of-finops-survey-ai-value-and-skills-top-priorities-as-finops-matures-across-technology-value-98-manage-ai-90-saas-64-licensing-48-data-center-1. Forrester Consulting. "The Agentic AI Readiness Gap." Commissioned by Boomi, July 2026, https://boomi.com/content/ebook/agentic-ai-readiness-gap/. About Shashi Bellamkonda Shashi Bellamkonda is Principal Research Director at Info-Tech Research Group. He serves about 40,000 CIO and technology-leader members. Disclaimer: This blog reflects my personal views only. Content does not represent the views of my employer, Info-Tech Research Group. AI tools may have been used for brevity, structure, or research support. Please independently verify any information before relying on it.