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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.
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What is Boomi?
Boomi is an integration platform that can be implemented in the cloud, on-premise, or in a hybrid environment. It offers functionality for low-code/no-code connectors between apps and systems, as well as greater customizability for more code-savvy users. Boomi also has the capacity for limited data transformation automation within the platform.
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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.
Skyvia are common alternatives for Boomi.
Reviewers rate Pre-built connectors and Support for real-time and batch integration and Data quality services highest, with a score of 9.
The most common users of Boomi are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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Dell Boomi has been widely utilized by organizations to address a range of integration requirements. SFCG, for example, has successfully used Dell Boomi to develop integrations in Boomi, enabling their customers to efficiently get data in and out of Oracle Cloud Applications. The applications teams at SFCG have also leveraged Dell Boomi to build real-time applications and batch processes, resulting in significant improvements in their business operations. Moreover, Dell Boomi has played an integral role in increasing the capabilities of SFCG's business by allowing them to connect their IBM mainframe to outside systems and utilize middleware tools.
Furthermore, Dell Boomi has proven to be a valuable tool for creating APIs that can be easily consumed by external clients, enhancing integration mechanisms for SFCG. They have also used Boomi to integrate with semiconductor suppliers, enabling them to manage and track semiconductor production in real-time. Additionally, SFCG has successfully integrated Namely with NetSuite for custom employee data requirements and Concur with NetSuite for expense reporting needs using Boomi. The flexibility of Boomi has allowed SFCG to connect Salesforce, Workfront, ZenDesk, and other systems with NetSuite throughout the organization.
In addition to these use cases, Dell Boomi has been utilized by various teams within organizations for smooth integration across multiple systems. For instance, the IT team at SFCG has leveraged Boomi for integrating various systems including eCommerce websites, ERP/CRM systems, and reporting platforms. Dell Boomi also plays a critical role in integrating SAP backend with web and mobile applications, providing a reliable and cost-effective solution.
Overall, Dell Boomi is highly regarded as an effective cloud-based enterprise integration platform that allows organizations to seamlessly integrate various systems across different industries. It offers flexibility and ease of use in developing integrations between systems while providing control over older EAI tools. However, some users have noted that the cost of professional services can be a downside. Despite this, Dell Boomi has consistently demonstrated its value by streamlining processes, reducing manual work, and empowering organizations to achieve seamless communication between different departments and systems.
User-Friendly and Intuitive Platform: Many users have praised Boomi for being a user-friendly and intuitive platform that can be easily used by both expert and novice users. The low learning curve, availability of tutorials, and documentation on Boomi's website have been highly appreciated.
Seamless Integration with Any System: A significant number of reviewers have highlighted Boomi's ability to integrate with any system as a huge plus point. Users appreciate the wide range of pre-implemented connectors and the built-in integration feature to nearly every platform, providing flexibility and convenience.
Efficient Data Mapping and Transformation: Several users value Boomi's visual capabilities in accurately mapping and transforming data between systems. They find it highly valuable in creating efficient and effective processes, thanks to its robust flow for development.
Difficult to Use: Several users have found Boomi to be difficult to use, especially for new staff members who find it less intuitive compared to other tools. This has made training new staff slightly more challenging.
Limitations on Connectors: Users have expressed frustration with the limitations on connectors in Boomi. This restricts the reusability of processes and requires rebuilding similar processes for different servers, which can be time-consuming and inefficient.
Lack of Documentation: Many users feel that the documentation provided by Boomi could be more instructional and provide more examples. The current format tends to be more of a summary, leaving users wanting clearer guidance on how to use the platform effectively.
Based on user reviews, the three most common recommendations for Boomi are as follows:
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Explore all available options and use existing integration packages from the process library. Consider Boomi if you are new to the integration field as it offers multiple ways to solve integration issues and is easy to implement, saving a lot of manual effort.
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Schedule a demo and conduct a proof of concept before making a decision. Spend time having all users go through the training and planning from the start around architecture and development approaches. Make sure to understand how Boomi is meant to be used.
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Try Boomi out and schedule a quick proof of concept to see the results. It is extremely easy to develop a process or web service with Boomi. Talk to Boomi's consulting team to ensure that it can meet your requirements.
Overall, users highly recommend Dell Boomi for various integration needs, mentioning its ease of use, reliability, and support team as key strengths. However, some users note that the price can be high for smaller companies and highlight the learning curve associated with using the software.
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March 01, 2017
Boomi - Integrate, evolve and succeed
We use Boomi for the integration need between legacy systems. My organization uses iPaaS for all integration related problems. Currently Boomi is used to address the problem we face sending data to another cloud platform. That is where Boomi plays a major role. Boomi integrates these systems by sending data in a format the destination system understands. And also Boomi does apply certain business logic to deal with certain business problems.
- Boomi is a wonderful cloud integration tool. It is easy to code or develop. And this is the easiest tool I have ever used for installation and deployment.
- Boomi also is a near real time data processing tool. Its atomsphere makes it easy for light weighted data processing.
- Boomi has lots of built in functions therefore eliminates the need for coding 90%.
- Boomi licensing is very cost effective. You do not have to buy the whole features of Boomi. Based your business need you can select features. This helps reduce cost and be more productive of the tool.
- Boomi does have room for improvement. Mainly in the areas of using connectors. I do encounter [issues] with a few connectors like SFTP, missing certain wild card filters while processing different types of files.
- There are a few functionalities also missing like processing large amounts of data. I very often see data getting lost when large amounts of data processed or it gets suspended without any specific failures.
- Look and feel could be improved in terms of moving or selecting a shape.
- Process report logs could provide more filter options.
July 27, 2016
Best of Boomi
Boomi is used for two way integration between our Salesforce and SQL databases.
- Creating XML files using SQL data
- Syncing data between databases
- Error tracking
- Tutorials
- Error alerts via email
December 21, 2015
Difficult integrations are a snap with Boomi.
We are using Boomi to integrate an on-premise legacy system with a cloud system. Two very different databases and we are able to successfully move critical data between the two for critical business processes.
- Boomi provides all the visuals to accurately map, and transform, data from one system to another.
- Easy to set up a completely isolated test environment to put the integrations through their paces before deploying to production.
- Compared to CastIron, the solution was much simpler to configure.
- Haven't run across anything that we can't yet accomplish with Boomi.
- Having a "test run" feature. If there is no test environment to test against, having a "what would be the result if I ran it" feature would be great.
December 18, 2015
Boomi product review by Cloud Integrator
Boomi is our top pick for our customers integrating cloud applications. Boomi primarily address the integration challenges between various cloud applications.
- It's unimaginably simple to use and I call the development "assembly".
- Has various proven cloud applicaton connectors.
- Ease of use, ease of deployment, ease of monitoring, on demand licensing, out of queue support, cloud development etc.
- The product is evolving day after day. There were several weaknesses two years ago but not any more. for example WS-Security was introduced recentlyy to enable end point communication security.
November 19, 2015
Best for Small to Medium level integration
We used Dell Boomi API Management to develop integration jobs between our different systems, such as our POS and inventory systems along with our product catalog such as NetSuite and MS SQL Server. The goal of synchronizing various systems and populating the data warehouse was nicely achieved. Learning Dell Boomi API Management was a fun and quick, and deployment was never difficult. We faced couple of small issues which we figured out.
- Can integrate multiple sources: REST, SOAP, RDBM.
- Cloud based so always easy to maintain.
- Training new resources is always easy.
- Easy to use UI which lets you create orchestrations nicely.
- Debugging/loggin can be improved.
- Cache components were not very friendly.
November 06, 2015
Highly recommend Dell Boomi
Boomi makes system integration easy by providing pre-defined objects and connectors.
- Provides a ton of built-in connectors.
- Provides very strong revisioning/object history.
- User friendly UI.
- It should have a way to encapsulate or hide code from other users (ex. compiling into DLL file).
- Keyword search for large projects would be great.
November 03, 2015
Boomi
Boomi is currently being used for developing integrations between SuccessFactors Employee Central and SAP On-Premise. It is also being used for replicating data down for payroll processes.
- Simple user interface.
- Easily deployed.
- Easily managed.
- Very difficult to use in complex scenarios.
- EXTREEEEEEEMLY poor debugging capabilities.
- No Room for coding where your beginner/typical/average programmer would find useful.
- Having to code (drag and drop) through the website makes it very time consuming rather then using a downloaded development software.
- Minimal ability to manipulate data in some scenarios.
- Difficulty determining exact process data and details of the run when running in a production environment.
November 03, 2015
Easy to use, but not recommended for complex integrations.
We wanted to be able to create/maintain integration jobs between different systems easily and not necessarily use a professional database administrator (DBA) to do so. This goal was achieved. I would like to mention that I received outstanding, good service from Anton Damiani. He was our trainer and we also bought some consulting services from Boomi with him as a resource. He definitely goes above and beyond to give help when needed.
- Visual interface. An inexperienced user can figure out what the job does in a simple look.
- Quick to get a simple integration going. Some of our integrations took just few hours to build are are still running after 2 years.
- Out of the box connectors to Salesforce, Taleo and other common SAAS.
- Not easy to troubleshoot failures. Unable to easily access payloads and components.
- Dev mode is painful with a limit of 10 records.
- Running processes even on dev mode takes a long time. Takes at least 20 seconds before starting to process.
July 25, 2014
Boomi Review
Enterprise middleware solution to synchronize between our custom e-commerce storefront, email marketing system, Salesforce CRM system, and custom product license key systems.
- Prebuilt connection types makes integration work easy.
- Table and field mappings were easy to define.
- Data transformation between systems was easy to implement.
- Licensing was confusing at times.
- Management software was buggy at times.
July 23, 2014
Boomi Review
It is being used to integrate enterprise business systems with business systems in the cloud.
- Best thing about Boomi Atom, is you don't have to worry about netowrk security ports. The Atom iniside firewall initiates the request
- Intuitive user interface.
- Maintainance can be done in cloud, so you can maintain it from anywhere. There is nothing to install on a PC.
- Top product but fair price.
July 18, 2014
Boomi - The road to fast implementations.
We utilize Boomi to interface between various systems and processes ranging from high end CRM and ERP systems to every day shopping carts. Boomi is used and managed by the IT department and provides the flexibility and agility we need to complete our integrations quickly and efficiently.
- Document and File translation and modification - every day systems need to communicate, however rarely do they speak the same language or format. Boomi allows us to modify data, translate data, format data into the proper needs for various systems.
- Provides an avenue that both the expert user and novice user can succeed with.
- Reduces the complexity of tasks
- Provides more lower "Time to Production" in comparison with stand alone software development.
- Boomi needs some additional / essential file types. Example: Microsoft Excel, currently Boomi can not read and parse an excel document. While it can be achieved through more advanced coding within Boomi using open source applications this is such a prevalent format that it should be part of the base capabilities.
- Better instructional documentation would help with several tasks. Often the documentation is more of a summary format and not a "Usage" guideline.
July 17, 2014
Integrate your way to a better place
Boomi is used by the IT team to integrate numerous systems. Without Boomi we would have to write a lot of custom software that would not be as robust. Because of Boomi, we are able to smoothly integrate our eCommerce websites, other websites, ERP/CRM system, and reporting platform. Additionally, we are able to integrate our data with our partners' data.
- Boomi allows us to quickly integrate existing or new systems with a point and click user interface. We have integrated our ERP/CRM system (Netsuite) with our eCommerce sites built in Magento Commerce and WebSphere Commerce, along with custom websites written in ColdFusion. We switched from WebSphere to Magento 1-2 years ago, and it was a seemless transition.
- Boomi is constantly upgraded and improved. In the time I have used it, I have been impressed by the number of changes and improvements made.
- Boomi handles large amounts of data quickly and provides exceptional tools for testing and debugging issues.
- Boomi provides a way to script using Groovy and JavaScript that allows the user to extend the system to fit business needs.
- One area for improvement is in handling XML with complicated schemas. We have had a few times where it was impossible or very difficult to handle XML when the schema was complicated. We found workarounds in each scenario, but sometimes that workaround was outside of Boomi.
- Make it easier to test a process using test systems instead of production ones. Although testing and debugging are exceptional overall, it is very difficult to do that testing in test systems instead of the production ones.
- The community could be improved to allow you to find pointers and suggestions by other users instead of having to rely on your first line of support. Without this, there is a lot of trial and error.
July 16, 2014
Boomi review
Boomi is currently our middleware solution. We have a webpage, member management application, and a front end that communicates through Boomi to our payment processor and database backend.
- Boomi has a very intuitive front end for users to easily build processes.
- Boomi makes it easy and fast to build simple flows.
- Boomi is not the best at a reliable cloud based solution. Simply put if the service is not accessible then nothing works and the business flows stop. Boomi can improve in reliability, portability, and maintainability.
- Boomi could also improve on moving from SOAP to RESTful services as they are lighter and easier to use.
- Also improvements could be made in testability working with SmartBear and its tools for fast and easy use of testing processes and web services.
July 16, 2014
Boomi
I think Boomi is a wonderful tool. It easily helps with integrating with many systems. The components that the tool has provide the flexibility to add various logic. A simple process can also be built by someone with a non engineer background, which is a great plus. The only downside is the cost of the professional service of Boomi. I would definitely recommend this product.
- Non Engineer Team can mange the Boomi Process.
- It can integrate easily with any system which is a huge Plus Point.
- The Various Components provides a robust flow to be developed.
- The XML Split casues Issues. Thats needs to be educated well during training.
- Boomi is very sensitive about the data type and format that it accepts. This also needs to be addresses during the training sessions.
July 15, 2014
Boomi - A User's Perspective
We use Boomi company wide as an integration hub, primarily between our CRM (Salesforce) and our ERP (Oracle Applications R12) systems. Integration to Oracle Applications required the purchase of the Oracle (enterprise) connector as an add-on to our professional license type. Boomi has been instrumental in mending the systems within our lead-to-cash process.
- Excellent library of connectors
- The Visual Integration Designer is fantastically intuitive
- The integration deployment process is quick and painless
- The process reporting functionality is excellent
- User Management - It's possible for users to overwrite a shared resource.
- Support is off-shore which makes collaboration difficult.
- Process alerting - It is possible to configure integration process failures and the account level but not at the integration job level