Boomi vs n8n

Boomi Appoints Mike Hickman as Chief Financial Officer

Boomi, the data activation company for AI, announced the appointment of Mike Hickman as Chief Financial Officer. Hickman will lead Boomi's global finance organization, including financial planning, accounting, treasury, tax, and reporting. He brings three decades of senior finance leadership, with experience at Proofpoint, Adobe, Marin Software, eBay, and Vitria Technology. At Proofpoint, he helped navigate a $12.3 billion take-private and a $1.8 billion acquisition. Boomi's CEO Steve Lucas highlighted Hickman's experience across IPO, take-private, and acquisitions. The appointment supports Boomi's scaling efforts with over 30,000 customers and 2,200 employees.

• Boomi appointed Mike Hickman as CFO.
• Hickman previously served as SVP of Finance at Proofpoint for 7.5 years.
• He has experience with IPO, take-private, and large acquisitions.

Boomi Ranked No.1 in ISG 2026 Integration Guide

Boomi was ranked the #1 overall software provider in ISG Buyers Guide™ for Application Integration 2026, placing in ISG’s highest quadrant classification, Exemplary. ISG Software Research evaluated 24 providers and designated Boomi a Leader overall and in every category, including #1 rankings for Capability and Product Experience and top scores in Customer Experience. ISG cited Boomi’s breadth of integration, API management and AI capabilities and highlighted the company’s expansion into agentic integration development, agent management and governance. Quotes from Boomi and ISG research leadership emphasize the company’s investments in integration, automation and agent governance to support operationalizing agentic AI.

• Boomi was ranked #1 overall software provider in the 2026 ISG Buyers Guide for Application Integration.
• ISG placed Boomi in its highest quadrant classification, Exemplary, and named it a Leader in every category evaluated.
• The report evaluated 24 providers; Boomi received #1 rankings for Capability and Product Experience and the highest score in Customer Experience.

n8n Still Relevant Despite Claude Code Rise

In a podcast episode, n8n CEO Jan Oberhauser discusses why n8n remains essential despite the rise of agentic coding tools like Anthropic's Claude Code. He argues that n8n, as an orchestration layer, provides reliability, auditability, and team collaboration features that Claude Code lacks. The company has evolved from personal automation to business-critical workflows, with 200K+ GitHub stars, 1.5M active users, and 1,200 enterprise customers. SAP's investment at a $5.2B valuation and embedding n8n into Joule Studio highlight its enterprise relevance. Oberhauser recommends using Claude Code for rapid prototyping and n8n for production workflows requiring approvals, logging, and team hand-offs. He also shares insights into n8n's hiring approach, emphasizing technical depth and builder mentality.

• SAP invested in n8n at a $5.2B valuation in May 2025.
• n8n has 200K+ GitHub stars, 1.5M active users, and 1,200 enterprise customers.
• Claude Code surpassed n8n in search interest by the holidays of 2025.

EU Apply AI Summit to Showcase Real-World AI Adoption

On 17 November 2026, the European Commission's AI Office will host the Apply AI Summit in Brussels, focusing on practical AI adoption across European businesses and the public sector. The event, expected to draw about 900 in-person and 2,500 online attendees, will highlight real-world European AI use cases in healthcare, energy, mobility, manufacturing, and other sectors. It marks the first anniversary of the EU's Apply AI Strategy and serves as the closing event of the first European AI Innovation Month. The summit will feature keynotes from European Commission EVP Henna Virkkunen and other leaders, and will present the Apply AI Startup Award to emerging European AI companies. The event underscores Europe's push to move from experimentation to large-scale AI adoption, particularly among SMEs.

• The Apply AI Summit will be held in Brussels on 17 November 2026, organized by the European Commission's AI Office.
• Eurostat data shows 20% of EU enterprises with 10+ employees used AI in 2025, up from 13.5% in 2024.
• The summit marks the first anniversary of the European Commission's Apply AI Strategy and the closing of the European AI Innovation Month.

Introducing n8n Assistant

New blog post announcing the launch of n8n Assistant, a product feature. The post is authored by Paul Gordon and dated September 2026.