Business Orchestration and Automation Technologies
Business orchestration and automation technology platforms unify process orchestration, connectivity and agentic features to enable enterprise-wide automation. This Magic Quadrant assesses 20 BOAT vendors to help guide your business process automation decisions.
Market Definition
Gartner defines business orchestration and automation technologies (BOAT) as a consolidated software platform that orchestrates and automates disparate business processes and tasks with varying degrees of autonomy and complexity across enterprise systems. A BOAT platform must provide native capabilities for AI agents’ orchestration and governance and multiagent coordination. It must leverage a combination of native connectivity methods, such as model context protocol, API and UI interactions, enabling secure, end-to-end enterprise agentic process automation across diverse execution environments.
A BOAT platform would be suitable for those who are looking to enable agentic automation by consolidating traditional deterministic automation with emerging probabilistic agentic capabilities.
Report 2026
Here is a summary of the vendors featured in the Gartner magic quadrant 2026 report.
For the full analysis and detailed insights, you can read the report
here
and view the magic quadrant graphic
here.
| MQ Position | MQ Vendor |
|---|---|
Leader |
Pega |
Leader |
Appian |
Leader |
UiPath |
Leader |
ServiceNow |
Visionary |
Workato |
Visionary |
Camunda |
Visionary |
Salesforce |
Niche Player |
SAP |
Niche Player |
Boomi |
Niche Player |
Automation Anywhere |
Niche Player |
Amazon Web Services |
Niche Player |
Nintex |
Niche Player |
SS&C Blue Prism |
Niche Player |
OutSystems |
Niche Player |
Mendix |
Niche Player |
n8n |
Niche Player |
Flowable |
Niche Player |
Bizagi |
Challenger |
IBM |
Challenger |
Microsoft |
Report 2025
Here is a summary of the vendors featured in the Gartner magic quadrant 2025 report.
For the full analysis and detailed insights, you can read the report
here
and view the magic quadrant graphic
here.
| MQ Position | MQ Vendor |
|---|---|
Leader |
Pegasystems |
Leader |
Appian |
Leader |
ServiceNow |
Visionary |
Microsoft |
Visionary |
Camunda |
Visionary |
Workato |
Niche Player |
SAP |
Niche Player |
Salesforce |
Niche Player |
SS&C Blue Prism |
Niche Player |
Automation Anywhere |
Niche Player |
Boomi |
Niche Player |
Mendix |
Niche Player |
OutSystems |
Niche Player |
Nintex |
Niche Player |
Bizagi |
Niche Player |
Hyland |
Niche Player |
Newgen |
Niche Player |
Flowable |
Challenger |
IBM |
Challenger |
UiPath |