Boomi Platform: Key Features and Benefits of Integration

Dell Boomi, now known as Boomi, is a leading cloud-based integration platform (iPaaS) that connects on-premises applications, platforms and data to the cloud. With Boomi, businesses can also integrate different cloud-based applications to smoothen their operations and make it error-free. It not only simplifies complex business operations by unifying all apps, data, and people to a single connected platform, but it does all this without any heavy coding. Read on to find more about the features and benefits of Boomi integration.

In order to transfer data between the cloud and on-premise applications, the Boomi platform enables customers to design cloud-based integration processes called Atoms. Their Integration Cloud was hence called the AtomSphere. The AtmoSphere was built from the ground up to be a versatile, robust multi-tenant hosted platform that can simultaneously balance the smallest integration requirements with the demands of very complex integrations.

Key Features of Boomi Platform

What makes Boomi stand apart from other cloud-based integration platforms is the way its various components come together to enable quick, adaptable, and easy integration. Following is a list of features of the Boomi platform:

Drag-and-drop UI:

One of Boomi's key differentiators is its simple user interface that is 100% browser-based. The platform allows users to build integrations with speed and ease by simple point-and-click and drag-and-drop gestures, with the need for coding being eliminated in many cases. Users can login anywhere without the need for any special tools.

Native connectors:

Boomi uses 'connectors' to integrate source and target systems. A connector is a packaged API driver that can be easily configured and used in the Boomi environment without coding. There are pre-built connectors for many cloud environments, including Salesforce, NetSuite, Zuora amongst others. There are generic connectors for all the major DBMS – Oracle, SQL Server, and MySQL.

Built-in Templates:

In case of standard integrations, for example NetSuite customers to Salesforce accounts, Boomi has a set of pre-prepared templates that can be used. This is called the Boomi Process Library. These are readily available to users, and simply need to be downloaded, installed and configured to the accounts being integrated.

Improves productivity:

Boomi eliminates mundane, time consuming and error prone tasks, freeing up users to focus on value-added tasks. Customers can therefore integrate faster, and also accelerate data transformation. The Boomi platform removes the need to start tasks from scratch. It is much easier and faster to use processes that have already been built, and just add or delete as necessary. Operational intelligence, reusable business logic, and data flow recommendations simplify the integration process and error resolution. Boomi's cloud-native infrastructure allows users to rapidly deploy integrations within weeks, days, or even hours.

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Key Benefits of Boomi integration for Your Business

• Boomi's pre-built connectors and templates cut down on development time, and time to market is faster compared to the native development with better performance. Being built on the Cloud, Boomi also allows businesses to scale quickly.
• For growing businesses that connect to multiple systems, all integrations are available in a single place. Boomi's cloud-based solution with operational intelligence helps users to monitor integrations from anywhere.
• Boomi provides data in real-time across any combination of cloud-based or on-premise systems and allows users to move data securely in all formats.

FAQs about Boomi's features and benefits

1) Is Dell Boomi an ETL tool?  
Although Boomi (formerly known as Dell Boomi) can extract, transform, and load data, it is capable of much more. Boomi is an Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS) that manages APIs, automates workflows, connects whole business systems, and transfers and transforms data all within a single platform. 

2) What is Boomi known for?  
Boomi is widely popular amongst businesses for its easy and fast application integration. It makes it effortless for teams to integrate platforms like NetSuite, Shopify, and Salesforce seamlessly and without any heavy coding. Its pre-built connectors and user-friendly interface have made it an obvious choice for companies who want to unify their processes.   

3) Is Dell Boomi a Middleware? 
Yes, Boomi serves as a sort of contemporary middleware that facilitates communication between apps. Boomi, on the other hand, is cloud-native, lightweight, and significantly more adaptable than traditional middleware, which calls for significant infrastructure and coding. It is made for the hybrid IT settings of today, where systems reside both on-premises and on the cloud. 

4) What is Dell Boomi called now? 
Dell Boomi is now called Boomi. Incepted in the year 2000 as an iPaaS (Integration Platform as a Service Solution), Boomi was acquired by Dell in 2010. However, it eventually grew to be an independent organisation again. 

5) Is it possible for Boomi to integrate with NetSuite?  
Absolutely! Boomi has a pre-built NetSuite connector that makes it effortless for businesses to connect their NetSuite data with other platforms. It can also automate workflows like procure-to-pay (P2P), order-to-cash (O2C), and customer data without any heavy coding or manual effort. 

6) What is Boomi's pricing?  
It depends on a number of factors like the volume of data, number of integrations involved, and the features that your business needs. Although the exact prices aren't published, Boomi offers flexibility for enterprises of all sizes. 

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