What do you like best about the product?

The best as per Gartner - https://www.informatica.com/sg/ipaas-magic-quadrant.html
Easy to use for Novice user also.
Simple and lightweight still can fulfill all complex integration needs.
Availability of inbuilt connectors (Not many iPaaS vendors provides connectors for Anaplan, Workday etc.(only SoftwareAG has it as of today.)
Very reasonable pricing and no need to buy unnecessary add-on as bundle
No bugs in product

What do you dislike about the product?

Though there is a workaround for RosettaNet requests, Its good to have connector for it like EDI.

Process logs can be fine tuned. Also, User should have option to store process logs in file as well as database to the user.

User need to have option to view transaction table data for detailed analysis.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

Cloud to Cloud Integration
Cloud to Ground Integration
Ground to Cloud Integration

Recommendations to others considering the product:

Highly recommended for integration needs of small to middle level data/process integration. You will end up saving a lot.

What do you like best about the product?

I wrote a blog article on it. Please read : http://sfcg.com/first-impressions-using-dell-boomi-atomsphere-like-a-pro/

I am integration developer with over 20+ years using the Data Junction framework (also known as Pervasive Business Integrator or Actian DataConnect). I had some familiarity with Boomi back in 2009 and liked it enough to inquire about open positions, unfortunately during a hiring freeze because they were being courted by Dell for acquisition.

Currently, I am working at SFCG, using various tools to build integrations into Oracle CX products. When we started kicking the tires on Boomi and in the training and development since that time, I’ve tried a series of processes out that have given me trouble in other tools. Below is a brief recap of my experience and growing admiration for the way in which this tool has made my job easier.

My first goal with using Boomi was to connect to an instance of CRM On-Demand (a task that can on other platforms be a time-consuming endeavor). What I found was a useful wizard, pictured below, with a series of pop-up steps to follow.

As you can see it easily built out the whole CRM Account schema giving you choices on the Request or Response XML Profiles, from the Account record, as shown in the screenshot below:

Including Child objects….. like List of Address :

This was all done within the span of 10 minutes. In other tools, I have spent more time in trying to define the schemas, than actually completing the maps that use them. Boomi reduced that time from my process. This is one small example of many demonstrating how my teammates and I feel as if we were working in black and white and are now working in color with Boomi AtomSphere. Tasks I’ve taken for granted are complex, time-consuming and meticulous are simplified, streamlined and transformed with powerful features like Boomi Suggest – a handy feature that leverages the collective intelligence of the Boomi community to suggest which fields should be mapped in a Data Map.

You don’t need to take my word for it, another member of our team, Li Mo started building out an integration to Oracle Sales Cloud, using the SOAP API Connector. He was able to do a complete integration to insert a record into the Account entity, and it took about an hour and half. Li Mo’s impression of using Boomi is ”这个平台太好用了!” which translates to “This tool is so handy!”.

Note: it had been about 1 month since we both actually took the training courses. I believe we choose an additional tool that plays to the inner strengths of working in the cloud, and I can no0t wait until I start full blown to continue development on new integration projects using Dell Boomi AtomSphere.

These are some initial impressions of our increased effectiveness with the Boomi platform, as we continue to grow in our knowledge and solution development, you can see here for more tips, tricks and success stories of a partner converted to a new way of developing.

What do you dislike about the product?

There are a few things you have to do repetitively, where a clone tool would be really great. I actually posted an idea : https://community.boomi.com/ideas/2192

There is also a similar request at : https://community.boomi.com/ideas/1314

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

integration of cloud data
rapid repeatablility

Recommendations to others considering the product:

Great tool -- just evaluate it for your needs.

What do you like best about the product?

The number of out of the box third party integration connectors are very helpful and reduce the custom development effort a lot. Continuous enhancements and more additions to these connectors is commendable case in point Amazon S3 and Slack connectors.
The ease with which an API can be setup and deployed is unmatched. Providing various options to configure SSL certificates, use authentication types and support for third party signed client and server certificates gives the client flexibility to mold the solution according to their requirements.
By providing groovy and java scripting options, it gives developers more options to go beyond out of the box mapping functions and transformation rules along with using a mix and match of the two. Introduction of queues and support for queue server makes it compatible with existing predominantly message based architectures.

What do you dislike about the product?

No out of the box connection support for databases like postgresql
Limited API monitoring and statistics
No version control for multiple deployments of same process at a single point of time

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

AWS Databases

Salesforce

SFTP

HTTPS

Custom API's

What do you like best about the product?

Dell Boomi is a wonderful tool to automate your entire eco-system at ease. The User interface is simply awesome and easy to learn. We are able to automate many interfaces. For example - Our HRMS is not capable of sending reminder notifications based on certain events, or based on certain days. With Dell Boomi integration we are able to automate many of our existing processes, which used to be performed manually earlier.
We have got lot of success internally and greater satisfaction from our center of excellence teams.

What do you dislike about the product?

There is nothing as such which can be put as dislikes :) However I personally felt that cost wise Dell Boomi training is little on the expensive side. And the Training content also can be improved. At last the weekly updates should also be considered during weekends and not weekdays.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

Automation of various processes, Building real time integrations,

Recommendations to others considering the product:

All Successfactors customers must use Dell Boomi for greater experience. The Dell Boomi support is simply awesome.

What do you like best about the product?

There are actually many things that I like about Dell Boomi. One thing that I like the most is the immediate response of the Dell team. We can provide our suggestions which we feel is necessary and they will review it and immediately start working on it.

As it is cloud based, we can access it from anywhere and the UI of this software is very user friendly and we can implement our logic without any confusion or hindrances.

What do you dislike about the product?

1. We had a scenario where large volumes of data had to be migrated. Finally we ran to issues and couldn't do that successful with Boomi. The reason is that the memory allotted for an atom is required to execute large volume. The alternate way which Boomi suggesting is to use many different process. So that reason you have to manual split your process to many to handle the large volume.
2. Another reason is that it is not providing the basic need for roll back the transaction. There is no option to execute with a transaction . For eg: we had scenarios where it had to communicate between two systems. When it fails for one system it had to revert back for the entire case. Currently it is not possible with Boomi.
3. Since Boomi made the tool more custamizable it become not that much user friendly. If you want to quickly visit an error for a process, you have to go for many clicks.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

What business problems are you solving? What benefits have you realized?
I was able to automate several processes which involves integration with Salesforce, Salesforce Analytics, NetSuite, and many more third party vendors which otherwise would have caused a lot of manual effort and would have been more error prone.

Recommendations to others considering the product:

I recommend every Organization and Business Units who has lot of trouble with application Integration weather it may be On-premise or Cloud and the cost of application i strongly recommend them to use Dell Boomi.

What do you like best about the product?

Capable of complex data transformations and is capable of a wide berth of use cases. Support can be very helpful and responsive. There have been several instances where we've had mission critical breakdowns and support has been awesome in putting in the hours until we got it figured out.

Their Revision History is great, especially when you're first learning the platform or want extreme version control. There's a lot of little places where you can do some major damage and having great version control mitigates development time. It's not listed as a connector, but it will work with Microsoft Dynamics Great Plains 2015 and eConnect 2014 which was nice (they do need to update the documentation for this connection though).

We had a mission critical integration that used a scripting component to sort data that would break every time there was a major update. Eventually, Boomi gave us a resource to help re-engineer the process so that it worked more in line with their development...

What do you dislike about the product?

Sometimes seemingly simple needs turn out to be very complex problems, eg sorting line item detail records on the header master record. Editing and creating custom XML profiles can be tricky, fortunately the Revision History component is fantastic. Connector management could be better, the same connector with a different ID won't deploy if you're at your cap, a problem which happens more often than you would imagine due to the strange and dangerous ways you copy processes and components

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

The primary intent of getting on the Boomi platform was to create a bi-directional sync between our Salesforce org and our instance of Great Plains which runs on a dedicated hosted server. With the some of the automation we've been able to realize using Boomi and various other applications has been profound, but when platform stability threatens that it can be harmful to our organization.

What do you like best about the product?

The simple and easy to use UI really helps to speed up the development

What do you dislike about the product?

Memory hunger UI when there are a lot of components or complex xml profile to be loaded.

It does not allow us to upload custom library when using cloud atom.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

Most of our customer has a very tight dateline yet complicated projects. And, Boomi comes in handy because it allows us to achieve the goals. It has shorten the development time greatly compares to the legacy tools (not to mention the name here :D).

What do you like best about the product?

I would recommend to people who require data management, and API management, In Boomi There are many functionalities which make you to easily process the data, the connectors make u to connect to specific customer. the best thing is api management ,where we can trigger the processes as wished.the community really helps the customers and consultants to gain the knowledge easily, and the customer support really helpful, when we ask any thing to them they will give support to us , and they will put a track on it, and they will be in touch with you till the problem is solved.

What do you dislike about the product?

To learn boomi easily there are less resources , It is good if they can add some functionalities rich working with high data. and they show add som tools like filtering the data , sorting the data so that, the process in can be more easily done by the developer.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

for payroll kind of data , we can able to send the data daily, or by using api management , we can able to send the data in daily or hourly basis, the main business problems lies with working with big data , some times while processes we gets java heap error. it will be good if they can give accesses to manage the cloud heap space for process to process.

Recommendations to others considering the product:

compared to other tools , boomi is easy to implement,it is partnered with many customers.

What do you like best about the product?

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.
1. Instead of "writing a program" to do the data movement, you might want to look at a commercial product that can accomplish this task is Dell Boomi .
2. Syncing data between databases
3. Error tracking
4. It would allow you to specify your requirements using a simple GUI interface and run the actual integration process "in the cloud."
5. Best of breed IaaS providers offer a single, seamless solution for Prior to selecting a Systems Integrator.
6. Compatibility of Applications & Systems:develop custom connectors quickly and easily via visual, drag- and Workflow.
7. Many connections available OOTB Database or HTTP client are rather trivial example but connectors available for Salesforce, NetSuite, JIRA and such many systems – which enables quicker development .
8. Boomi provides all the visuals to accurately map, and transform, data from one system to another.
9. Easy to set up a completely isolated test environment to put the integrations through their paces before deploying to production.
10. Compared to CastIron, the solution was much simpler to configure.

What do you dislike about the product?

Tutorials
Error alerts via email
EXTREMELY poor debugging capabilities.
For coding where your beginner/typical/average programmer would find useful.
Better instructional documentation would help with several tasks. Often the documentation is more of a summary format and not a "Usage" guideline.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

Success factor
Database
SFTP
Developing and maintaining API and web services
Querying, Insert/Upsert/Update/Merge/Delete

Recommendations to others considering the product:

Boomi is exceptional when you need to integrate disparate systems in a comprehensive way. It is also very good when you have a lot of data that is synced overnight (not real time). It allows you to handle a lot of data, schedule it for when you need it to run, and alert you if there are any problems. It might not be a perfect fit if your integration needs to be real time, although the APIs do exist to allow this to be done if needed.

What do you like best about the product?

The thing i liked the best in dell boomi is that the process canavas is user friendly. The shapes are easy to select and the best part is the drag and drop option. The process is easy to run in the test mode and the results observed is user friendly.It is easily understandable to the users. The document provided by the dell boomi is also an easy way to get access to the dell boomi.Its easy to work with the connectors as well.

What do you dislike about the product?

The main part which i didnt like in dell boomi is that the groovy scripting which is being used in map shape and the data process shape. The coding part is quite difficult for me to understand.Their should be a small change in the scripting side coding that should be minimised. The document provided by dell boomi should be in detailed with the examples.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

I am working with salesforce updation for practice .I felt more easy working with it. The connection and operation of the sales force is easily upgraded. The another best thing which i felt is working with the API's is also very user understandable way. By using mail connectors to send mails to multiple mails using a single connector.

Recommendations to others considering the product:

I would strongly recommend to use dell boomi as a platform its quite simple and easy to use its user friendly too.