A startup above a Pennsylvania pizza shop survived the integration wars by rebuilding itself for SaaS. Twenty-six years later, Boomi is betting that the same plumbing can keep enterprise AI from becoming another expensive island.
The Israeli software veteran outlasted several computing eras by connecting what companies already owned. Its products carry the story, but services pay most of the bills - and a 2026 merger gives that model a larger engine.
Two former NetSuite engineers spent a decade turning the least glamorous job in software - getting one app to speak to another - into a business ranked the #1 iPaaS and worth an estimated half a billion dollars.
Athena Technology Solutions makes the factory floor legible to the rest of the enterprise - stitching machines, manufacturing software and business systems into one working digital thread. Now the Fremont integrator is testing how far that hard-won context can carry agentic AI.