Australian building products manufacturer Brickworks has modernised its integration architecture using Boomi’s enterprise platform, aiming to reduce technology complexity, accelerate project delivery and improve access to enterprise data.
Brickworks, which operates manufacturing facilities across Australia, New Zealand and North America, said its previous integration environment relied on single-use, point-to-point connections that made it increasingly difficult to access and share information between systems.
“We wanted to essentially move our data onto highways, while also creating reuse and unlocking data that we couldn’t previously access,” said Keiren Lawrence, chief information officer at Brickworks.
“This moved integration from a one-off background capability to a core strategic enabler for the team to really drive business outcomes from core technology.”
According to Brickworks, the company worked with Boomi partner Atturra to implement Boomi Companion alongside Atturra’s Integration Accelerator, connecting its product information management system with its content management system.
The companies said the AI-driven approach reduced the delivery time for the project from a potential 80-plus business days to 12 days, while establishing 18 interfaces.
Peter Savage, field CTO for Data and Integration at Atturra, said the project formed part of Brickworks’ broader technology transformation.
“We’ve been working with Brickworks on business transformation and unlocking strategic business benefits by transforming and uplifting the application architecture and the integration,” Savage said.
Brickworks said the new architecture has also been applied to other projects, including the migration of product data to a newly launched website. The company said the integrations were delivered despite late-stage changes and a tight project timeline.
Lawrence said the platform was now a key component of Brickworks’ technology strategy.
“Boomi is a really important part of our strategy, and gives us a controlled, scalable way to connect our systems and activate our data,” he said.
Brickworks said its use of the platform has increased by 700 per cent since modernising its integration architecture, while associated costs have risen by 50 per cent.
The company also reported improvements in access to procurement data, saying the platform enabled it to unlock more than 40,000 previously inaccessible spend records and process 135,000 PDFs to capture line-level information for analytics.
Looking ahead, Brickworks said it plans to build on its existing integration and data foundations, with further work planned around governance, automation and the use of agentic AI capabilities.
“Brickworks has demonstrated that when integration becomes a strategic capability, organisations can unlock the full value of their data,” said David Irecki, chief technology officer for APJ at Boomi.
