The BOAT market continues to evolve rapidly, driven by the convergence of automation tools and the rise of AI agents in business processes. These market forces, while meant to improve business outcomes, can often introduce new complexity and risk into organizations.
In fact, 40% of organizations in a recent survey shared that they experienced an AI-related compliance or governance issue in the past 12 months, and process-related challenges contributed to 84% of those incidents. Organizations are increasingly looking to BOAT platforms to act as the enterprise control plane for agentic automation, governing orchestration, connectivity, observability, and policy at scale.
That’s why we are pleased to share that Camunda has again been named a Visionary in the Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Business Orchestration and Automation Technologies (BOAT).[1]
Why the BOAT market continues to evolve: The Great Process Redesign
In our view, one of the most important elements that will determine the success of an organization's AI investments comes before the technology selection—it's the process design, or in today's agentic world, the redesign.
AI agents are multiplying across teams, vendors, and frameworks, but they are often just bolted onto existing processes without a lot of forethought, operating in silos, duplicating work, making conflicting decisions, and creating compliance blind spots. End-to-end outcomes still depend on manual handoffs and stitched-together integrations.
We’re seeing the effects of these inefficient processes, and they are expensive: 72 percent of organizations from that same survey say process-related challenges have caused AI initiatives to fail, at an average cost of $1.55 million per organization.
To avoid these costly failures, organizations need to reapproach their legacy processes and choose a technology platform that can meaningfully coordinate AI agents, people, and systems across the entire process—not just individual tasks—so AI can finally deliver end-to-end outcomes.
And this redesign only holds up if it runs on a platform built to evolve with it: composable and adaptable, not a rigid monolith. That's the role orchestration plays—engines like Zeebe let organizations reshape processes as agents, systems, and requirements change, instead of re-architecting from scratch every time.
The Camunda vision: Building an agentic flywheel out of BOAT
That’s why Camunda’s vision is so compelling; we're building a platform where every process makes the next one faster and safer through our agentic core, a fast on-ramp in ProcessOS, and a data foundation that turns execution into evidence.
- Agentic orchestration core: Camunda’s Zeebe engine runs deterministic workflow and agent-driven, dynamic work in one governed model. Creation can be dynamic, where an agent decides the next step, but accountability is always modeled in the process, creating durable, auditable, governed execution.
- ProcessOS as the enabler: Camunda’s process intelligence layer acts as an agentic operating system for your business processes. Four AI agents work across the lifecycle: discovering how you actually run today, re-engineering for the outcomes you want, building and deploying, then continuously improving once you're live.
- Data foundation: Every process ProcessOS lands and Zeebe runs produces execution data. We're investing to turn that into baselines and business measures—the fuel for proving and improving outcomes.
- Self-learning platform: Once that data is reliable, the platform starts improving processes, not just running them—each next process is faster to design and safer to run than the last.
That compounding effect is the vision, and it's why Gartner names Process Orchestration our strongest capability today in the 2026 Magic Quadrant for BOAT.
If your priority is a resilient, governed orchestration engine that gets smarter with every process you run on it, that's precisely the challenge that Camunda solves, and why we’ve been named a Visionary once again by Gartner. Our process orchestration capability is the core the entire flywheel is built on, and what allows us to realize such a forward-looking vision.
Thank you
A heartfelt thank-you to our customers, partners, developers, champions, and every Camundi who made this recognition possible. Being named a Visionary is an important milestone to us, but it’s only one step in a much larger journey.
We’re committed to advancing agentic orchestration and helping enterprises succeed with automation that is resilient, scalable, and trustworthy. I’m grateful you’re part of this community, and I look forward to what we’ll build together.
Learn more
Enjoy a complimentary copy of the Gartner Magic Quadrant report below or get in touch with us today for a free customized demo if you’d like to learn more about what Camunda can do for you.
[1] Gartner, Magic Quadrant for Business Orchestration and Automation Technologies, Saikat Ray, Arthur Villa, Sachin Joshi, Adam Briggs, Tushar Srivastava, Mike Warren, September 14, 2026
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