Blackbird API Development vs. Boomi

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Blackbird API Development
Score 10.0 out of 10
N/A
Ambassador offers a suite of products designed to deliver API developer experiences that fuel innovation. Blackbird API Development Platform enables developers to spec, mock, write boilerplate code, and debug APIs faster.
$10
per month (for a single user and 5 concurrent instances)
Boomi
Score 7.9 out of 10
N/A
Boomi is a cloud-based, on-premise, or hybrid integration platform. It offers a low-code/no-code interface with the capacity for API and EDI connections for integrating with external organizations and systems, as well as compliance with data protection regulations.
$550
per month
Pricing
Blackbird API DevelopmentBoomi
Editions & Modules
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Boomi
$550
per month
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Blackbird API DevelopmentBoomi
Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
YesNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Community Pulse
Blackbird API DevelopmentBoomi
Features
Blackbird API DevelopmentBoomi
Cloud Data Integration
Comparison of Cloud Data Integration features of Product A and Product B
Blackbird API Development
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Ratings
Boomi
8.0
33 Ratings
1% below category average
Pre-built connectors00 Ratings9.932 Ratings
Connector modification00 Ratings5.129 Ratings
Support for real-time and batch integration00 Ratings10.031 Ratings
Data quality services00 Ratings10.029 Ratings
Data security features00 Ratings5.231 Ratings
Monitoring console00 Ratings7.933 Ratings
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User Ratings
Blackbird API DevelopmentBoomi
Likelihood to Recommend
10.0
(1 ratings)
9.0
(41 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(9 ratings)
Usability
10.0
(1 ratings)
8.0
(6 ratings)
Performance
-
(0 ratings)
7.9
(5 ratings)
Support Rating
8.0
(1 ratings)
6.0
(2 ratings)
User Testimonials
Blackbird API DevelopmentBoomi
Likelihood to Recommend
Datawire, Inc., dba Ambassador
Ambassador is really well suited for scenarios were you need to give power and freedom to your developers so they can take advantage of the self-service approach. One of the few scenarios I can not recommend using Ambassador is in the case you are planning to not using Kubernetes as it is a solution designed to work specifically on that platform
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Boomi
Legacy systems often need to be replaced or integrated with new applications in order to modernize businesses. A strong API strategy that avoids custom coding and third-party programs is essential to enable this integration. Boomi's new-age connectivity and integration solutions ensure safe, secure, and robust integration. In the age of information, businesses are under more pressure than ever to be able to collect and manage large amounts of data. This data comes in from a variety of sources, including personalized devices such as voice assistants and wearable tech. While this data can be immensely valuable to businesses, they often lack the infrastructure necessary to handle it effectively. This can lead to data build-up in databases or silos, and can eventually lead to problems with integration and security.
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Pros
Datawire, Inc., dba Ambassador
  • Simple syntax
  • Easy to understand
  • Easy to install
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Boomi
  • Pre-built connectors to almost anything which greatly reduce time to release of your integration needs.
  • Easy to use development platform with drag&drop features. Non-technical people could build simple integration processes in no time.
  • Great user community where you can get quick help if needed. Boomi people hang around there a lot.
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Cons
Datawire, Inc., dba Ambassador
  • Documentation is not updated
  • Implementing external authentication doesn't always work as described in the documentation
  • The Administration console is limited
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Boomi
  • More from a development perspective. It is always difficult to use the properties features. It takes a while to understand how the data/variables can be used across an integration.
  • Dell Boomi should also invest more on API Management and not just seen as a ETL,ESB tool.
  • Should roll out features more often based on users reviews.
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Likelihood to Renew
Datawire, Inc., dba Ambassador
No answers on this topic
Boomi
Dell Boomi has provided us with the ability to connect our campus together using our various existing platforms. There are many supported features and have yet to run into something that we cannot do. Its user interface is very intuitive which would allow users to begin developing fairly easily. There is a myriad of resources available
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Usability
Datawire, Inc., dba Ambassador
It's great! it's amazingly simple to use and the best part is the self-service approach. I also like how easy it is to add a new route to a endpoint with the mappings definition.
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Boomi
My IT and Finance teams have noted that setting up the tool is a breeze. Dell Boomi has never caused an issue during a system implementation that I am aware of. We are pleased with the tool and recommend others consider it.
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Performance
Datawire, Inc., dba Ambassador
No answers on this topic
Boomi
The atom sphere takes a time to load, when I open a process or when I open a log. One more slow processing is when I import objects from NetSuite.
About the performance of processing, it looks like Boomi takes a time to initialize some things such as connectors before starting the process. This is also performance we have.
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Support Rating
Datawire, Inc., dba Ambassador
Overall the support has been great and quick to answer the requests I've submitted in the past. I was originally using the community/open source version and I can't say it was the best experience I had, it wasn't terrible but it wasn't great. I believe the biggest issue was that they refer to the documentation a lot but the documentation isn't updated regularly so I feel it's lagging behind the most recent versions.
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Boomi
Boomi support was responsive and knowledgable, however being a closed cloud service, it doesn't have good community support. We found the learning curve to be steep and there aren't avenues like google, forums, or blogs that provide community driven insight into the product or how to go about designing solutions using the tool
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Alternatives Considered
Datawire, Inc., dba Ambassador
They both offer about the same in terms of end goal and purpose of use and scenarios. However, Ambassador does way better in terms of simplifying the syntax and makes offer a little bit more of control by adding the concepts of hosts, mappings while staying away from a hard to read single file configuration.
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Boomi
We decided to go with Dell Boomi because another department in our company was already using the software. We did not research competitor applications to use as our business solution. Dell Boomi was very easy and quick to set up, so once we decided to use Dell Boomi for systems integration, we had it set up and running within a few working days.
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Return on Investment
Datawire, Inc., dba Ambassador
  • Reduced downtime by redirecting traffic between DC.
  • Reduced engineering time, don't have to dedicate 1 person to manage it.
  • Increased training costs in the short term.
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Boomi
  • It has allowed us to scale significantly without having to add headcount, specifically those geared towards data entry. We went from a $10m ARR business to $200m ARR business with the same amount of Order Processors and 12x amount of transactions by leveraging Boomi to perform a lot of the work, and then having the Order Processing team to simply review that the transaction was processed successfully.
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