In this latest episode of our AI Tech Top Voice series, we speak with Dan McAllister, Senior Vice President of Global Alliances, Boomi. Boomi is a category leader in integration and automation that empowers organizations globally to trust and rely on its technology. Dan has over 20 years of experience in enterprise technology, much of that focused on partner strategy and ecosystem development. Dan has developed global alliances to drive customer success nd expand into new markets and innovative solutions.
At Boomi, Dan directs global partner strategy and operates at the intersection of integration, AI, and automation, three forces that are transforming the digital enterprise. Dan is committed to building ecosystems based on collaboration, that drive tangible outcomes for the customer and speed along their modernization journey, enable real-time data and access, and embrace intelligent technology with confidence.
About Dan McAllister: For over twenty years, Dan has navigated the evolving world of enterprise tech and organizational collaboration, establishing himself as a trusted guide for businesses. At Boomi, Dan was primarily responsible for enabling how partners/customers achieve speed, flexibility, and ROI in the digital age.
About Boomi: Boomi holds the top spot in the integration-as-a-service space and has been named a Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ Leader for eleven years running. Boomi’s platform provides enterprises with an integration capability that unifies applications, data, devices, and people across hybrid and multi-cloud environments. Boomi has built-in integration and native capabilities for API management, Data Management, event streaming, and AI-enabled automation. Organizations can build an extensible framework for intelligent transformation at scale with Boomi.
Here’s the full interview.
AI Technology Insights (AIT): Hi, Dan. Welcome to the AI Technology Top Voice Interview Series. Please tell us about your current role at Boomi and your journey in the industry.
Dan McAllister: As SVP of Global Alliances at Boomi, I lead our worldwide partner strategy focused on building high-impact relationships that drive customer success, market expansion, and innovation across our platform. I’ve spent over two decades in enterprise technology, much of it in partner-centric roles. What drew me to Boomi is the opportunity to work at the center of integration, AI, and automation, three forces that are transforming how businesses operate. The Boomi ecosystem is built to empower partners to deliver speed, flexibility, and real outcomes for our customers.
Recommended: AITech Top Voice: Interview with Jonathan Kvarfordt, Head of GTM Growth at Momentum.io
AIT: What are your key offerings? How do you use AI and ML to improve the overall product development lifecycle for your stakeholders?
Dan McAllister: Boomi offers a leading integration platform as a service (iPaaS) that connects everything across the enterprise from applications and data to devices and people. Our platform includes capabilities in application integration and automation, API management, data cataloging, data management, event streaming, and more.
We’re also innovating heavily in AI, both embedded in the product and in how we enable our partners and customers to use the technology. Boomi uses AI to simplify development through natural language automation, intelligent recommendations, and, more recently, through our Agentstudio offering. That helps customers build and orchestrate AI agents across their enterprises. These AI-infused capabilities reduce development time, improve reliability, and achieve outcomes that show measurable ROI.
What’s more, beyond the productivity and functionality gained in the product development cycle, Boomi is designed to support secure and responsible agent deployment, helping developers operate within a governed, cross-platform environment leveraging our Control Tower capability. This is critical because as AI agents move from experimentation to production, enterprises need centralized oversight to manage risk, ensure compliance, and maintain visibility across distributed systems.
AIT: Boomi has been recognized as a leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS) 11 consecutive times. What do you attribute this sustained leadership to, and how does Boomi continue to innovate to maintain this position?
Dan McAllister: Our consistency is grounded in three things: relentless focus on customer outcomes, continuous platform innovation, and a strong global ecosystem of partners.
We’ve never treated integration as a back-office function—it’s core to enterprise agility, innovation, and increasingly, AI adoption. While some enterprise software vendors include basic, embedded integration tools within their applications, these are often limited in scope and contribute to brittle architectures, inconsistent data practices, and rising technical debt. Boomi, by contrast, was purpose-built for enterprise-wide, cross-platform integration and automation. It’s not a feature add-on—it’s our core value. With one unified platform, we help customers simplify complexity, reduce licensing and developer costs, and most importantly, lay the foundation for a clean, governed data layer that’s essential for scaling intelligent automation and AI.
Our innovation agenda now extends to agentic transformation. We’re helping organizations embed autonomous, decision-making AI agents into their processes that don’t just assist, but act securely and intelligently at scale.
DXC + Boomi Partnership
AIT: The DXC Technology and Boomi collaboration aims to accelerate modernization and the adoption of agentic AI. With the creation of a Boomi Center of Excellence within DXC, how do you see this partnership transforming enterprise operations, particularly in application modernization and AI-driven automation?
Dan McAllister: The DXC-Boomi partnership is a blueprint for how integration, services, and API management must come together to deliver agentic transformation. Enterprises are overwhelmed by legacy systems, disconnected data, and rising demands for greater agility. Together, we’re solving that with a purpose-built model that combines Boomi’s cloud-native integration platform, API management capabilities, and AI-enablement tools with DXC’s global scale and deep industry expertise.
The Boomi Center of Excellence (CoE) inside DXC is key. It’s where we’re building our joint solution strategies to help customers modernize faster and adopt AI agents with confidence. This partnership is about delivering measurable outcomes through what AI demands: simplified integration, real-time data access, and operational speed.
Recommended: AITech Top Voice: Interview with Court Watson, Partner, Risk and Financial Advisory, Controllership at Deloitte
AIT: This partnership emphasizes delivering value through application modernization, AI-driven migration, and agentic transformation. How will these initiatives directly benefit customers across different industries, and what sets this collaboration apart from other AI and integration partnerships?
Dan McAllister: What sets this partnership apart is the level of commitment, delivery scale, and strategic alignment. We’re not just co-selling. We’re co-building. The Boomi CoE within DXC ensures customers in industries like manufacturing, healthcare, and financial services benefit from integration strategies tailored to their needs and infused with AI readiness at the start.
Customers gain access to proven integration patterns, faster implementation cycles, and tools designed to support intelligent automation from Day One. It’s also about flexibility. Boomi gives customers the ability to move at their own pace with the freedom to connect across any cloud or platform, avoiding vendor lock-in.
Partnership Technology Ecosystems
AIT: As enterprises increasingly adopt hybrid and multi-cloud environments, how does Boomi’s platform ensure seamless integration and data flow across diverse systems and infrastructures?
Dan McAllister: Boomi’s founding vision was to operate in any environment. That flexibility is one of our key differentiators. Our low-code platform, extensive connector library, and support for real-time and event-based data flows allow enterprises to integrate and orchestrate across any architecture without complexity.
More importantly, we help customers unify not just systems, but their data. With Boomi, enterprises can ensure data quality, help enforce governance, and make trusted data available for analytics, AI, and decision-making, regardless of where it lives.
AIT: Boomi has established a robust global partner ecosystem. How do these partnerships contribute to Boomi’s growth and the success of its customers?
Dan McAllister: Our partners are a core part of how we scale impact. From global system integrators to cloud hyperscalers and regional specialists, Boomi’s partner ecosystem brings deep domain expertise and delivery capacity.
We’ve designed our platform and programs to be partner-first. That allows partners to build, embed, and extend Boomi into their own offerings. This collaborative model has helped us enter new markets, accelerate customer value, and maintain our leadership in a fast-evolving category. We’re truly better together.
Insights and Predictions
Recommended: AITech Top Voice: Interview with Hafiz Lockman, U.S. Country Director at Telekom Malaysia
AIT: What lessons have you learned in scaling AI and IoT from proof-of-concept to enterprise-wide adoption? Would you like to share a specific case study from Boomi’s resources?
Dan McAllister: A key lesson is that connectivity and data access are often the biggest blockers to scaling AI and IoT. You can’t run intelligent agents, automation, or predictive models if your systems aren’t integrated or your data isn’t trusted.
We’ve seen firsthand how data integration lays the foundation for large-scale AI transformation in complex industries like construction. Suffolk Construction substantially increased its operational efficiency using AI, handling over 40 million transactions per day with a 99% success rate. Boomi provided the essential foundation for this transformation by ensuring that origin system data and identifiers were synchronized, allowing AI models and applications to operate with consistent and accurate data. By leveraging Boomi, Suffolk achieved a finely-tuned integration architecture that addresses current operational needs and supports future demands, including market expansion.
AIT: Looking ahead, what are the key trends you foresee shaping the future of integration and automation platforms, and how is Boomi preparing to address these trends?
Dan McAllister: We’re entering an era where integration will move from back-end utility to front-line intelligence. The next generation of platforms must support:
● Agentic AI: Autonomous agents will drive more workflows, requiring platforms that can trigger, orchestrate, and govern AI behavior at scale.
● Composable architectures: Enterprises will need more modular, API-first systems that can evolve as quickly as their business does.
● Embedded intelligence: AI will be natively embedded into integration tools, guiding users, improving data quality, and automating development.
Boomi is already building for that future with Agentstudio and our expanded AI roadmap. Our goal is to make integration not just faster, but smarter and ultimately, autonomous.
Thank you so much for your time today! We look forward to having you again at our Top Voice Series.
Recommended: F-Secure VP Dmitri Vellikok on AI in Cybersecurity – Expert Interview
To share your insights, please write to us at sudipto@intentamplify.com
