Broadcom’s Automic Automation V26 Revealed: Bringing Trust and Control to AI in Enterprise Business Operations
Broadcom today released a major new version of its enterprise automation and orchestration product, Automic Automation V26, positioning it as an intelligent control plane.
This release is designed to solve one of the most pressing challenges facing business leaders today: moving AI beyond simple conversation and information management and integrating it directly into core business operations.
Processes such as basic banking, claim processing, utility bill generation, and employee onboarding have historically been handled by automated decision makers. Introducing AI agents into the mix without a governance layer risks calling for chaos, as the AI is not trained on proprietary business data, and has never learned the years of human decision-making behavior embedded in these systems.
Rajeev Kumar, head of product automation at Broadcom, told ITOps Times: “The real challenge is, you’re trying to bring AI to a world that’s always had decisions, a world that’s always wanted control and dominance and readability and things like that. Consider ERP systems. Think of mainframes. Think of a time when businesses built these database applications, Oracle, SQL Server … sitting on premises. Some of them have moved to the cloud, and you have business processes. They might be messy, they might be siloed, and we’ve been putting them together from an orchestration perspective. Now AI will exacerbate that problem if the management layer is not put in place, and that management layer is an automated intelligent control plane.”
Orchestration platform with guardrails
Automic Automation V26 works as an orchestration platform, with monitoring tools. which ensures auditability, governance, and reversal. Although the industry has previously solved determinism in private domains, Kumar explained that a problem in complex business operations remains: how to present the intelligence needed in a deterministic world in a securely controlled manner using role-based access control (RBAC). Automic acts as a control tower, coordinating domain-specific orchestration and AI agents while enforcing governance.
Kumar noted the main difference between Automic and orchestration platforms such as OpenClaw and its variants. OpenClaw-type tools often focus on improving the productivity of the digital worker, dealing with tasks such as answering emails or transferring data to an Excel sheet to help make daily decisions. In contrast, Automic Automation focuses on what Kumar calls “complex, hairy business processes” and back-office automation that involves hundreds or thousands of tasks running across different systems—processes that historically involved people in the loop, dependency management, and failure management. For this critical workload, simple use cases for RAG or digital workforce tools fall “very short,” he said.
A major feature in V26 is the development of automation, which aims to democratize the process. Traditionally, building complex automated processes—such as pulling data from Salesforce daily, cleaning it, pushing it to a data warehouse, and generating an executive report—requires expertise and can take weeks. With V26, this is made easy with vibe coding. A business analyst who knows the requirements but lacks technical writing skills can simply output a few inputs, and the tool will automatically generate a plan, object structure, and workflow. This innovation is designed to improve the productivity of automation developers to keep up with the speed of new developers using modern coding tools.
V26 also includes key features aimed at data engineers.”Data needs to be delivered, the right data, at the right time, in the right place” to provide context, Kumar said. Worst of all, V26 delivers agent-less transactions, offloading the technical overhead of installing, managing, and securing agents to end-user developers, allowing central teams to provision agents on Kubernetes networks that spin up and scale down automatically.
Finally, V26 has support for SAP Clean Core architecture. By supporting Clean Core—SAP’s mandate to avoid core customizations for easy upgrades—Automic Automation ensures that customers do not need to add technical customizations to integrate with their new S/4HANA or SAP Rise environments. It also integrates with SAP’s AI platform, SAP Joule, enabling structured workflows that can seamlessly cross both SAP and Non-SAP environments through a single control plane.
“Wthey’re positioning it as an intelligent control plane, something that will bring AI and management together,” Kumar said, “something that will bring the old world and the new world together in trust.”
