Market Overview for Business Orchestration and Automation Technologies (BOAT)
Enterprise automation and AI agent management is evolving from fragmented tools to unified process orchestration and automation technologies (BOAT).
As organizations prioritize the ability to orchestrate complex work across people, bots, APIs and AI agents, BOAT platforms will emerge as a top choice for a shared governance and execution model. Gartner predicts that by 2028, 90% of organizations will consolidate point automation and workflows tools onto a BOAT platform.
Our key insights from the Gartner® report:
Strategic planning assumptions for navigating the evolving automation market.
What to know about BOAT platforms, including capabilities and emerging trends.
Considerations for consolidating your enterprise automation stack and navigating AI vendor sprawl.
Get the Gartner® Market Overview for Business Orchestration and Automation Technologies (BOAT) report to learn why leading organizations are consolidating legacy automation stacks into centralized BOAT platforms.
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Gartner, Market Overview for Business Orchestration and Automation Technologies (BOAT), by Saikat Ray, 10 May 2026.
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