Easy to use, but not recommended for complex integrations.
Overall Satisfaction with Boomi
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.
Pros
- 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.
Cons
- 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.
- (Negative) Ended up spending more time trying to get around the UI interface for more complex integration.
- (Negative) Licensing cost for Dev/QA/Staging and Prod makes this product very expensive even for simple stuff. Even a simple process that needs a DB connector, Http Connector and a Mail Connector, you would need 3 connector x 4 environments = 12 connectors at roughly $500 per month per connector.... $6000 per month for a very simple integration.
- (Positive) Simple integration can be built within few hours.
- Mule ESB and Apache Camel
Boomi seemed simpler to use and very promising. The existing connector to Salesforce and Taleo was definitely a factor in our decision. The pre-sale support from Boomi was exceptional, they never hesitated to jump on a virtual conference to show us how it is is done. Unfortunately, after few years, we realized that we could have a better ROI with a different platform. At this point we have already started to move the process out of Boomi to implement it in Mule ESB.
Boomi Feature Ratings
Using Boomi
5 - System Integrator, DBA, BI Analyst
1 - Deep understanding of system integration, SOA architecture, good SQL knowledge. Also need to be comfortable installing software, and access[ing] filesystem. Need to be very organized because the version control is quite confusing.
- Simple Integration [than can be] quickly implemented.
- Easy to understand user interface.
- Same process can easily be run in different environments.
- Able to upload file to an FTP server on a schedule without any complexity.
- Not planning to build anythign new in Boomi as we are moving to Mule ESB.
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