Boomi has acquired Israeli startup Elementary Data in a deal valued at about $43 million in cash and stock. It is Boomi's third Israeli acquisition, after Rivery and Lunar.dev. Elementary makes data observability tools that help companies monitor the quality and reliability of data used by AI agents and enterprise systems. Boomi's platform connects data, applications, and systems for more than 30,000 customers. Elementary had raised $8.5 million by the end of 2022 from TLV Partners, Cowboy Ventures, Y Combinator, and angel investors. All 17 employees, based in Israel, will join Boomi, which plans to expand its local operations. Boomi will keep supporting Elementary's open-source project and commercial product. "AI is only as trustworthy as the data behind it," said Steve Lucas, Boomi's chairman and chief executive officer.

HiBob scales AI and model context protocol (MCP) adoption without slowing engineering. Published Oct 16, 2026 HiBob is a global HR, Payroll, and Finance platform provider and an early adopter of AI tools, AI agents, and MCP based tooling across its organization. The company actively encourages teams to adopt AI to improve productivity, automation, and decision making. As AI usage expanded across engineering, HR, support, and operations, HiBob needed a scalable way to govern agent and MCP usage. The goal was to provide strong visibility and control for security teams, while preserving speed and autonomy for engineers. To achieve this balance, HiBob partnered with Boomi and deployed Boomi AI Gateway as an enterprise MCP Gateway for governing agent and MCP traffic at scale. The challenge. HiBob's AI adoption grew rapidly, with teams spinning up new MCP servers to connect agents to SaaS platforms and internal systems. While this unlocked powerful workflows, it also created two growing challenges for the security organization: Security became a bottleneck. Each new MCP server required security review before being approved for use. Evaluating risk exposure, permissions, authentication models, and tool behavior became a manual and time consuming process. As MCP usage increased, security teams struggled to keep up without slowing down business teams waiting for approvals. No central internal MCP registry. There was no shared, authoritative registry of vetted and approved MCP servers across the organization. Teams often lacked clarity on which MCPs were approved, which were under review, and which should not be used at all. This led to reduced visibility at the organizational level. HiBob needed a way to centralize MCP governance, reduce manual review overhead, and make approved MCPs easily discoverable by teams, without blocking experimentation. The solution: identity aware MCP governance. HiBob implemented Boomi AI Gateway as a centralized gateway for all MCP and agent traffic, tightly integrated with the company's identity provider. By connecting Boomi AI Gateway to HiBob's IDP, governance could be enforced based on user identity and department, rather than static credentials or manual approvals. This enabled: * Department based profiles mapped to users via identity * Automatic access control for MCP servers and tools based on role * Available MCP connections out of the box * Scoped access to SaaS platforms, with secrets dynamically resolved per user identity * Clear separation between teams without duplicating MCP infrastructure Each department received its own MCP profile, defining which MCP servers and tools were available. Engineers could immediately use approved MCPs within their profile, while security teams retained centralized control. Central MCP registry and reduced security bottlenecks. Boomi AI Gateway also became HiBob's internal MCP registry, serving as a single source of truth for all MCP servers in the organization. Security teams could approve, version, and manage MCP servers centrally. Once approved, MCPs were automatically made available to relevant teams based on their identity profiles. This eliminated repeated reviews, reduced approval delays, and removed security as a gating factor for adoption. Its priority was enabling AI adoption safely, not slowing it down. Boomi AI Gateway gave Boomi the visibility, control, and identity-based governance Boomi needed to approve MCP usage with confidence, without turning security into a blocker. Tamir Ronen, CISO, HiBob For engineering teams, this meant faster onboarding and clearer guidance on which MCPs were safe to use. For security teams, it meant consistent enforcement and visibility across the organization. Tool groups for accuracy and security. To further refine agent behavior, HiBob used Boomi AI Gateway's tool groups and custom tool definitions. Instead of exposing broad tool sets, teams curated focused groups aligned to specific workflows. This allowed HiBob to: * Limit agent access to only relevant tools * Improve agent accuracy by reducing tool noise * Minimize over permissioning and risk exposure * Customize tools per department and use case Business teams gained more predictable agent behavior, while security teams benefited from tighter and more auditable boundaries. Results. Today, Boomi AI Gateway is used across multiple business teams at HiBob as a foundational layer for AI and MCP governance. Security teams gained centralized visibility, reduced approval bottlenecks, and a consistent governance model. Engineering teams retained speed, autonomy, and easy access to approved MCP tooling. By aligning governance with identity and real organizational structure, HiBob successfully scaled AI adoption without reducing the security risk or business velocity. Ready to start your journey? Govern all agentic traffic in real time with enterprise-grade security and control. Deploy safely on-prem, in your VPC, or hybrid cloud. Get started. Boomi named a leader. The Forrester Wave(TM) for Adaptive Process Orchestration Software, Q3 2026 Stay in touch with Boomi. Get the latest insights, product updates, news and more directly to your inbox. By providing my contact information, I authorize Boomi to provide occasional updates about products and solutions. I understand I can opt-out at any time and that my data will be handled according to Boomi's privacy policy.

The Associated Press Oct 12, 2026, 9:02 PM TOKYO-(BUSINESS WIRE)-Oct 12, 2026- Boomi, the data activation company for AI, and Jade Global, a Boomi Certified Platinum Implementation and Managed Services Partner specializing in manufacturing transformation, today announced an expanded partnership to help manufacturers deploy AI agents in production operations with the data integrity, governance, and control those environments demand. Jade Global will deliver manufacturing-specific solutions built on the Boomi Enterprise Platform, bringing Boomi's active data foundation and Agent Control Plane to the plant floor and the supply chain. Boomi and Jade Global partner to bring governed AI agents to manufacturing operations. Manufacturers face a particular version of the enterprise AI challenge. Operational data is distributed across ERP, MES, PLM, quality, warehouse, and supplier EDI systems, much of it on legacy infrastructure. AI agents that act on that data without a trusted foundation or an audit trail introduce risk precisely where manufacturers can least afford it: production schedules, inventory positions, supplier commitments, and regulatory records. As a result, agent initiatives in manufacturing frequently stall between a successful pilot and production use. "Manufacturers have some of the richest operational data in the enterprise and some of the strictest requirements for acting on it," said Dan McAllister, SVP of Global Alliances and Channels, Boomi. "The question is no longer whether agents can do useful work on a production line or in a supply chain. It is whether the business can see what an agent did, trust the data it acted on, and account for the outcome. That is what the Agent Control Plane and the active data foundation beneath it are designed to deliver, and Jade Global brings the manufacturing depth to put that into practice." The partnership brings together complementary capabilities. Boomi provides the active data foundation, keeping master and operational data synchronized across the applications, APIs, and data sources that run a manufacturing business, along with the Agent Control Plane to build, run, control, test, and manage agents across their lifecycle, with policy enforcement through Boomi's AI and MCP gateways and full observability through the Agent Control Tower. Jade Global brings its Industry 4.0 Smart Manufacturing Framework, powered by Boomi, together with nearly a decade of manufacturing integration, data management, and B2B/EDI managed services experience delivered through its integration center of excellence. The company has worked with Boomi since 2017 and achieved Platinum Implementation Partner status in 2019. "Japanese manufacturers set the global benchmark for quality and operational discipline, and they rightly expect the same rigor from AI," said Arun Menon, Chief Technology and Strategy Officer, Jade Global. "An agent that adjusts a production schedule or flags a supplier exception must be as traceable as any change made on the line. Many of the manufacturers we work with are also modernizing integration systems built over decades, and that modernization is exactly the foundation agents need. With Boomi, we help them do both: connect and govern their operational data, then put agents to work on it with every action recorded and accountable. We are committed to supporting manufacturers in Japan as they move agentic AI from pilot to production." The partnership delivers the following outcomes for manufacturers building and operating AI agents: * Agents grounded in trusted operational data. Items, bills of material, suppliers, equipment, and quality records are continuously reconciled and synchronized, so agents act on current data rather than stale extracts and every record they touch is traceable to its source. * Governance on every agent action. Policy is enforced through Boomi's AI and MCP gateways, higher-risk actions such as modifying a purchase order or releasing a production hold can require human approval, and every decision is logged for audit. * Deployment where manufacturing requires it. Agents run locally, regionally, or in the cloud to meet plant latency, data residency, and sovereignty requirements under a single control plane. * Manufacturing-ready implementation. Jade Global's framework and methodology, adapted for agentic use cases, provide prebuilt patterns for supplier exception handling, maintenance follow-through, and demand-to-supply rebalancing, shortening the path from assessment to production. For the more than 30,000 customers on the Boomi Enterprise Platform and the manufacturers Jade Global serves across discrete, process, and high-tech manufacturing, the partnership provides a path to run AI agents under the same governance, observability, and audit controls those organizations already rely on for mission-critical integrations. The expanded offering is available now through Jade Global. About Boomi Boomi, the data activation company for AI, powers the agentic enterprise by bringing data to life across the business. The Boomi Enterprise Platform is the active data foundation that delivers essential agentic infrastructure to drive agentic transformation. By unifying agent design and governance, API and MCP management, integration and automation, and data management into a single platform, Boomi enables organizations to harness the power of AI with secure, scalable connectivity. Trusted by over 30,000 customers and supported by a network of 800+ partners, Boomi helps organizations of all sizes achieve agility, efficiency, and innovation at scale. Discover more at boomi.com. (C) 2026 Boomi, LP. Boomi, the 'B' logo, and Boomiverse are trademarks of Boomi, LP or its subsidiaries or affiliates. All rights reserved. Other names or marks may be the trademarks of their respective owners. About Jade Global Jade Global is a leading AI-native digital transformation company enabling enterprises to become AI ready by optimizing operations and accelerating business outcomes through scalable, technology-driven solutions. With over two decades of experience, we bring a client-centric approach to delivering end-to-end services that enable organizations to be cloud and data ready. As multi-cloud experts, we combine a comprehensive portfolio of services with the agility few providers can match. Our 360-degree capabilities, supported by a strong ISV partner ecosystem, enable seamless transformation across applications, systems, and platforms. With our AI native approach through JadeOrbit, powered by hundreds of enterprise-ready AI solutions and industry accelerators, we drive data readiness, autonomous workflows, intelligent operations, and faster transformation outcomes. The result is lower costs, greater efficiency, and measurable business value for enterprises. We enable organizations across high-tech, healthcare, life sciences, manufacturing, hospitality, financial services, and retail to achieve autonomous operations and business processes. To know more please visit https://www.jadeglobal.com/ Jade Global Payal Mathur [email protected] Kristen Walker [email protected] KEYWORD: JAPAN ASIA PACIFIC INDUSTRY KEYWORD: TECHNOLOGY SECURITY PROFESSIONAL SERVICES SOFTWARE DATA ANALYTICS RETAIL DATA MANAGEMENT SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE PUB: 10/12/2026 08:00 PM/DISC: 10/12/2026 08:02 PM You May Also Like