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Agentic AI: What's Hype, What's Real, and What CIOs Should Do Next

The Boston SoftDesign team attended the 2025 World of Workato conference in Las Vegas, NV, in August 2025. Our main takeaway was this: AI is a powerful tool with huge potential, but we need to be realistic about where AI is at now—and how organizations can actually benefit from using it.

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Unlocking the Potential of Agentic AI

Agentic AI is the next big thing in AI, going beyond current generative AI capabilities. It can adapt and take action with minimal human input. Want to learn how it works and how it can transform your business? Read more!

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Enterprise Integration, Agentic AI & RAG: What We Learned at Workato Automate 2024

Workato Automate 2024, held in San Mateo, CA, brought IT professionals together to discuss the future of automation and AI. Boston SoftDesign proudly sponsored the event, participating in thought-provoking sessions and discussions. Read on to see our key takeaways, including enterprise orchestration and agentic AI.

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Automation at Scale: Finance and Procurement

Disconnected workflows and data silos complicate finance and procurement operations, making it challenging to manage essential functions like payroll, billing, and vendor management. By integrating an iPaaS into your tech stack, you can connect applications, automate processes, and enhance efficiency across your organization.

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Automation at Scale: Human Resources

Eliminate data silos and streamline HR workflows by automating at scale with an Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS). Learn how this centralized management system can enhance efficiency across recruitment, onboarding, offboarding, and more.

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Automation at Scale: Marketing, Sales & RevOps

Learn how automating at scale with an Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS) can break down data silos, streamline workflows, and boost efficiency across your marketing, sales, and RevOps teams. Discover key strategies for leveraging automation tools to drive revenue growth and optimize your business operations.

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Is Your Business Ready for AI? An AI Readiness Assessment Can Tell You.

An AI Readiness Assessment can guide you through the complexities of AI adoption, helping you identify high-impact areas, estimate costs, and align technology with your business goals. Learn how Boston SoftDesign can help you navigate this critical step in your AI journey.

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Shadow IT Explained: How to Reduce Your Risk

"Shadow IT" is a growing risk of digital transformation. Learn how shadow IT threatens organizations and its solutions, including SaaS license management.

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How to Optimize Workato Recipes & Task Usage

Learn how to define Workato “tasks” and “recipes,” design workflows, and estimate task and execution frequency—plus, how to get this powerful iPaaS solution off the ground.

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Why RAG Is the Future of Business AI

Learn what RAG is, how it works, and how this approach can make genAI more accurate, customizable, secure, and affordable for businesses of all kinds.

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3 Things We Learned at Oracle’s Data & AI Forum

On January 18, 2024, Oracle held its Data & AI Forum in Boston. Learn about our leadership's main takeaways from the event, including the ways AI can boost efficiency across an organization, how to approach AI security, and the rise of retrieval-augmented generation in business AI.

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How to Choose the Right iPaaS

It's difficult to figure out which iPaaS solution is right for your organization. This guide will dive into key features and compare three of the most popular iPaaS systems on the market in 2024.

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6 Reasons to Invest in System Integration in 2024

System integration is a means of automating your business processes. When done right, system integrations bring your various SaaS platforms and applications together in an organized and well-governed ecosystem. Learn how system integration can benefit your business.

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CRM Automation with AI: Use Cases for Sales and Marketing

Discover the transformative impact of AI in CRM automation. From streamlining operations with AI assistants to personalized marketing and predictive analytics, learn how AI is reshaping sales, marketing, and customer service strategies.

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Choosing the Right IT Services Provider for Your Business: A Comprehensive Guide

IT plays a vital role in your workflow. With technology constantly evolving, it’s intimidating to learn a new program or implement complex software that—when done correctly— can help your business grow and operate efficiently. This is where skilled IT consulting and service providers can help. In this article, we’ll share what you need to know before you hire a technology partner, including a strong understanding of your needs, the capabilities of an IT services provider, and the right approach for your business.

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Mastering Your ERP System: What You Need to Know

Managing business operations in an ERP system is a challenge for companies of all sizes. From finance to supply chain operations, explore the benefits and challenges of these transformative systems. Learn how managed IT services can be your guide through complex data migrations and digital transformation, as well as building platform customizations, consulting, and support for your internal team.

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Callable Recipes To Be Workato Competitive Advantage

Callable recipes help companies run such flows in an async or parallel manner if an immediate response is not required. This feature is particularly helpful with updating, logging, and interacting with the systems intolerant for batch queries.

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Things every company should consider when choosing MSP

Managed Service Providers (MSPs) address a broad spectrum of IT infrastructure challenges, offering services in data, software, IT security, cloud, and network management, while also providing continuous monitoring and management. This enables in-house IT teams to focus on other priorities. Although commonly associated with enterprise-level companies, MSPs are increasingly popular among small and medium-sized businesses

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