Ep169: Connecting Everything Everywhere: How Boomi Powers Enterprise Integration with AWS

Vice President of Solution Engineering Chris Timmerman reveals how Boomi's integration platform evolved into a no-code AI agent builder on AWS, serving 22,000 enterprises while solving the 95% failure rate in AI production deployments.

Topics Include:

• Chris Timmerman shares his 9-year journey from Field CTO to VP Solution Engineering at Boomi
• Boomi connects cloud and on-premise systems, helping enterprises move data seamlessly since early 2000s
• The platform serves 22,000+ customers, from order-to-cash processes to complex M&A integrations
• New CEO Steve Lucas pivoted Boomi toward generative AI when ChatGPT emerged
• Boomi approaches AI three ways: internal automation, product enhancement, and customer enablement
• AI Agent Studio lets users build agents on AWS Bedrock without writing code
• Agent Garden marketplace allows partners to share specialized agents for Salesforce, NetSuite, and more
• Chris reveals 95% of enterprise AI projects fail to reach production due to data issues
• AWS partnership since 2018 provides infrastructure plus hands-on engineering collaboration for problem-solving
• Hackathons with AWS engineers generate excitement and innovative solutions for customer challenges
• Chris advises new AWS partners: "Don't be afraid to ask for help" and be transparent
• Future vision: Partner with market leaders like AWS rather than reinvent foundational AI frameworks

Participants:

• Christopher Timmerman – Vice President, Solution Engineering, Boomi

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