Brickworks Modernises Integration Architecture and Activates Enterprise Data With Boomi

SYDNEY--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sep 1, 2026--

Boomi, the data activation company for AI, today announced that Brickworks has modernised integration architecture using the Boomi Enterprise Platform, unlocking previously inaccessible enterprise data, accelerating technology delivery, and building a scalable foundation for future growth.

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Brickworks is one of Australia’s leading building products businesses, with a long history in manufacturing, distribution, and property. The organisation is best known for its strong portfolio of brands across Australia, New Zealand, and North America with brands such as Austral Bricks, Austral Masonry, Bristile Roofing and Glen Gery supplying a large range of building products to residential, commercial and infrastructure markets. At its core, Brickworks combines trusted manufacturing capability, design-led products and a strong customer-facing brand presence.

Brickworks employs approximately 1,800 people globally and operates a broad network of manufacturing plants, design centres and retail outlets. Their customer base is diverse, spanning builders, architects, developers, contractors, resellers and homeowners across residential, commercial and infrastructure markets. Rather than serving a small defined customer set, Brickworks supports a wide ecosystem across the building and construction industry.

Brickworks recognised the need to strengthen its core operational capabilities and modernise its technology foundations to keep pace.

Brickworks' integration landscape had historically been built on single-use, point-to-point connections, limiting the organisation's ability to access, share, and act on its data. Valuable information remained trapped in documents and disconnected systems. Building new integrations became increasingly slow and costly. To support future growth, Brickworks set out to establish a scalable, reusable integration architecture capable of activating trusted enterprise data.

“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, CIO 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.”

Brickworks engaged long-standing Boomi partner Atturra, which had previously rolled out the Boomi Enterprise Platform across its systems, to implement Boomi Companion alongside their own Atturra Integration Accelerator (AIA) to connect Brickworks' product information management system with its content management system.

“We’ve been working with Brickworks on business transformation and unlocking strategic business benefits by transforming and uplifting the application architecture and the integration,” said Peter Savage, Field CTO for Data and Integration at Atturra.

Rather than pursuing a traditional integration build, which could have taken more than 80 business days, the AI-driven approach compressed delivery to 12 days, standing up 18 interfaces while meaningfully reducing cost. The solution produced thorough and easily maintainable documentation, meaning late-stage changes could be handled through simple iteration rather than starting over. Attura's AIA along with their subject-matter expertise gave the Brickworks team added confidence in the design decisions behind the automation.

The project reflects a broader shift in Brickworks’ approach to integration, building platform-based architecture patterns that unlock speed, reliability, and reuse for future initiatives. In a recent complex marketing integration involving the migration of product data to a newly launched website, the team delivered the full set of integrations without disruption, despite a tight timeline and a series of last-minute changes that would traditionally have caused weeks or months of delay.

“In addition to receiving the benefits of not having to move data by hand, Brickworks also unlocked future capabilities that will help it achieve its wider business goals,” said Savage. “When we rolled out the Atturra Integration Accelerator with the Boomi Companion, we basically achieved every one of the goals that we set for ourselves, and it's been a tremendously successful partnership.”

As Brickworks worked to modernise its platforms, it was crucial to do so without creating complexity. Lawrence said, “Boomi is a really important part of our strategy, and gives us a controlled, scalable way to connect our systems and activate our data.

“Since modernising our integration architecture with Boomi, our platform usage has increased by 700 per cent, enabling teams to act faster and provide the correct data when and where it’s needed, unlocking insights that just weren't possible before,” said Lawrence.

The significant increase in usage has come with only a 50 per cent rise in costs – meaning Brickworks has defined those architectural patterns, to reduce the cost and complexity of integration, providing improved support and reliability for customers. One example came from procurement, where Boomi unlocked over 40,000 records of previously inaccessible spend data, and captured line-level detail now feeding category management analytics by orchestrating mailbox extraction and routing 135,000 PDFs through Azure Document Understanding. Brickworks' teams now have increased visibility into information, opening up new opportunities for vendor negotiations, pricing decisions, and broader spend analysis.

Going forward, Brickworks' strategy is to build on the scalable, secure foundations already established, extending strong governance across data integration and automation as the business scales. This will allow faster, more confident delivery for customers, with greater accuracy and a stronger overall customer experience. Brickworks plans to expand its use of agentic AI capabilities within the Boomi Enterprise Platform, while continuing to build the trusted partnerships it has formed.

“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, APJ at Boomi. “Together with Atturra, we are proud to have helped Brickworks build a scalable, reusable integration foundation that enables faster delivery today while creating the trusted data needed to scale with confidence.”

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Brickworks Modernises Integration Architecture and Activates Enterprise Data With Boomi

Deadly flooding at the Grand Canyon is damaging the area's economy, with a washed-out pipeline severing the South Rim's water supply and shutting down lodging at the popular tourist vista for an indefinite period.

The national park remained open Tuesday but tourists who planned to stay overnight — many traveling long distances for reservations from a year or more ago — have had to scramble to find rooms elsewhere.

The flooding that killed two people and left a third missing washed out an already decrepit pipeline spanning the canyon that supplied every shower, faucet and spigot at the South Rim.

Now, hundreds of rooms are no longer available due to insufficient water, thwarting plans for thousands of tourists staying at the canyon or headed that way in the days ahead.

Michelle Allen, of Olathe, Kansas, got word Sunday evening she'd need to check out the next morning after just one night into a five-night stay.

“We had to hurry up and make accommodations somewhere else,” Allen said. “Luckily we were able to do that.”

As of Tuesday, it's uncertain how long the lodging would be closed. Experts warn that the economic toll of such closures would affect not only northern Arizona but southern Nevada.

Many who visit the Grand Canyon also visit Las Vegas, said Christine Vogt, a consultant on sustainable tourism and outdoor recreation in the Western U.S.

“This will be catastrophic,” Vogt said, adding that the water shut-off could last weeks.

An extended lodging shutdown could also affect hundreds of service jobs in and around the national park and cost hundreds of thousands of dollars in local revenue, said Megha Budruk, an Arizona State University associate professor who studies communities near public lands.

This is the latest economic blow to the region after a wildfire last summer destroyed a historic lodge at the Grand Canyon's less busy but lusher North Rim, putting all rooms and cabins on that side of the canyon out of commission.

Grand Canyon was the fourth-most visited national park in 2025, behind Great Smoky Mountains, Zion and Yellowstone. Summer is the park's busiest time, although tourist visits typically dip under 500,000 in September. After the North Rim fire last year, visitation was just 372,000 for the month.

In 2024, the park drew almost $1 billion a year in spending by close to 5 million tourists visiting the otherwise remote northern Arizona region, according to the National Park Service.

That spending further supported almost 9,000 jobs, which in turn generated $400 million in labor income and $1.1 billion in economic output in nearby communities, according to the park service.

Besides the shuttered Phantom Ranch lodge and campground at the canyon bottom directly affected by the floods, closed South Rim accommodations included El Tovar Hotel, Bright Angel Lodge, Maswik Lodge and the Yavapai Lodge and Trailer Village, park officials said.

South Rim campgrounds remained open but without spigots. Campground bathroom faucets would remain operational, but campfires were banned since less water would be available to fight a wildfire.

Restaurants and other food and beverage services at the South Rim remain open. But only so much water will be available from tanks that were supplied by the cross-canyon pipe.

In all, some 1,600 year-round residents and the South Rim's millions of annual tourists rely on the 12.5-mile (20-kilometer) pipe built down, across and up the sheer canyon walls in the 1960s.

Grit in the water has scoured the aluminum pipe, weakening it from the inside and causing dozens of failures in recent years. A more than $200 million repair project was well underway before the flooding that had damaged about 40% of the pipeline.

Conservation will be at least part of the plan to keep water flowing from tanks that still have weeks' worth of water in them. After that, how the tanks might be refilled is an open question.

Park officials planned a public meeting Wednesday at the canyon to provide updates on the water situation.

In the meantime, the priorities will be reporting leaks, using reclaimed water for nondrinking uses, running dishwashers and washing machines only if they're full or in eco mode, Andy Stiles, South Rim general manager for Xanterra Travel Collection, said by email.

“And asking guests and staff to be mindful of things like handwashing length and running water,” Stiles said. “Actions like these across the South Rim are what’s helping the available water reserves go as far as possible.”

Unaffected was Tusayan, a tourism hub just outside the park boundary 15 minutes from the South Rim.

“We’re just heartbroken about what has happened at Phantom Ranch,” Tusayan Mayor Clarinda Vail said, adding: “We are open. Full services in Tusayan.”

The community with 1,200 lodging rooms doesn't rely on the pipeline but uses well water. Besides hotels and camping, Tusayan hosts restaurants and businesses that offer tours of the canyon by air and ground.

At Grand Canyon Camper Village in Tusayan, business had been “oddly slow” for this time of year, but now general manager Joan Marquez is seeing a surge in business at showers and laundry rooms. Both are available for the general public as well as people staying at the campground.

South Rim lodging companies such as Delaware North, which runs the 350-room Yavapai Lodge, promised to get as many customers rebooked in Tusayan as they could.

But the community’s five main hotels were filling up quickly. Grand Canyon Plaza Hotel is usually the last in town to sell out but was seeing a surge in South Rim lodgers seeking rooms, front desk supervisor Steven Ayres said.

“We’re going to have more coming, I guarantee you,” Ayres said.

Gruver reported from Fort Collins, Colorado, and Yu from Phoenix. Associated Press journalist Ty ONeil contributed to this report from Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona.

Tourists check out of the El Tovar Hotel as lodging along the rim of the canyon was shut down due to flooding, Monday, Aug. 31, 2026 at Grand Canyon National Park, Ariz. (AP Photo/Josh Biggs)

Tourists check out of the El Tovar Hotel as lodging along the rim of the canyon was shut down due to flooding, Monday, Aug. 31, 2026 at Grand Canyon National Park, Ariz. (AP Photo/Josh Biggs)

Tourists look down into the Grand Canyon off of the south rim, Monday, Aug. 31, 2026 at Grand Canyon National Park, Ariz. (AP Photo/Josh Biggs)

Bright Angel Canyon, middle left, the scene of flash floods, meets with the Colorado River in the Grand Canyon, Monday, Aug. 31, 2026, at Grand Canyon National Park, Ariz. (AP Photo/John Locher)

People stand at the rim of the Grand Canyon, Monday, Aug. 31, 2026, in Grand Canyon National Park, Ariz. (AP Photo/John Locher)

Tourists look over the rim of the Grand Canyon in the rain, Monday, Aug. 31, 2026, in Grand Canyon National Park, Ariz. (AP Photo/Josh Biggs)

A sign is seen as officials at Grand Canyon National Park in northern Arizona have closed off access to water sources at the park after a flash flood damaged the only water pipeline that serves the canyon, Monday, Aug. 31, 2026. (AP Photo/Ty ONeil)