What do you like best about the product?

Boomi saves a lot of time when attempting to send or share data between multiple existing on-premise and cloud hosted applications. It's easy enough to get data from point A to point B with an acceptable amount of development effort. Also, Boomi makes it possible for non-developer types to create data integrations without too much learning or overhead.

What do you dislike about the product?

Boomi executions are slow and there seem to be issues with web server services process that only get executed occasionally being offline temporarily. Boomi is the typical enterprise solution to the common problem of too many applications. But instead of fixing that problem by refactoring code or consolidating applications, Boomi is a tool to use on top of everything and make all the legacy apps play (somewhat) nicely together.

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

We have way too many applications. Instead of refactoring and consolidating, the powers that be have decided to use Boomi to make sure we keep using every one of our outdated applications for a long time to come.

Recommendations to others considering the product:

Firstly, consider redesigning your architecture so that you don't need a path-tool like Boomi. If you absolutely can't spend the time or money to refactor, reconsider. Because Boomi still takes a lot of time and costs a lot of money. If you absolutely aren't allowed to change your in-house apps, then ya I suppose I'd recommend using Boomi to get your data back and forth. Or build something yourself if you're a competent developer, which I know you are ;)

What do you like best about the product?

Mapping objects to another objects are made very easy in boomi. All you need to do is drag a line from one name to another and your done. I do like that there are many connectors to choose from that allow you to quickly connect to different products without learning those products apis.

What do you dislike about the product?

As a developer I find this tool a hindrance.

Debugging is a nightmare as I am in the dark of what is happening in most of the steps.
Boomi goes quite a bit down on our dev boxes which causes lost time
I find also the documentation lacking.

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

We have many different system that need to share data between each other but with different names. We use boomi for it's mapping capabilities to map between these different objects and different systems(ie SalesForce)

Recommendations to others considering the product:

If you can't afford developers, or your developers are lacking skills or you need something done quickly or you have very complex objects that you need to map then boomi is a product to use.

What do you like best about the product?

It's really easy to develop complex integration processes with visual tools. The GUI really helps make sense of complex jobs.

What do you dislike about the product?

Performance problems and debugging can be more difficult due to abstraction from the lower layers...

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

Too many to list, we've done dozens of integrations between many different systems.

What do you like best about the product?

The ability to schedule and track the completion statuses of our integrations. Ability to audit processes for success and failure.

What do you dislike about the product?

Licensing for ftp seems excessive when many of our connections are simple file dumps.

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

Automation of EDI delivery and Invoice processing has save lots of manual work. The logging and documentation of these integrations has allowed for improved efficiencies and improved auditing.

Recommendations to others considering the product:

Review licensing of ftp connections.

What do you like best about the product?

-I usually like the way that Boomi handles data granularity, making it very easy to scrub fields and make decisions based on individual records. On the downside to this, it takes more advanced knowledge of boomi to do something like count the number of records returned by a query, or to merge documents if you don't want granular processing
-Scheduling is easy and it's nice that it is done in atom management as opposed to within the feed itself: so that no code changes/deploys are necessary to change scheduling
-Nice GUI interface
-Process reporting when paired with document tracking allows for strong troubleshooting

What do you dislike about the product?

-It's not as intuitive as other tools, which makes training new staff slightly more challenging.
-There are not easy ways for code migration from one environment to another, and it's a lot of manual work to separate in-work versions as opposed to versions deployed to sandboxes/production/etc
-Love the ability to re-run documents in test mode, but don't like how you can't choose what version of code to test it against

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

-We are integrating our CRM systems with our product data. We send data to our marketing system from our Data warehouse, our DB2/MySQL databases, and from our instance of Salesforce.

Recommendations to others considering the product:

Spend time evaluating whether you will use the Atom Cloud or local atoms, taking into account what kind of endpoints you want, what kind of alerts you'd like, and how much data you'll be sending on a monthly basis

What do you like best about the product?

Boomi initially attracted me with the ton of built in connectors which lowers the integration's complexity.
Process deployment and environment extensions are interesting.

What do you dislike about the product?

We are forced to limit the usage of connectors.
Limited built in mapping functions.

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

Iam working on integration cloud to cloud and cloud to on premise integrations.

What do you like best about the product?

Recently Dell added wildcards to Cross Reference Tables. * and ? (multiple and single placeholders) are supported. This is a very efficient way of doing string transformations in a CRT without building ancillary string functions.

What do you dislike about the product?

The Integration Packs should support on the fly creation of User Defined Functions in extensions.

Also would appreciate a user friendly way to sort Profile elements - especially in data maps that are extensible.

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

Developing Integration Packs that will meet most of our customer's interface needs in domains such as Time and Attendance to Pay Roll and Master HR Records to the Time and Attendance system.

Recommendations to others considering the product:

Do include all techinical and functional teams in your organization who touch interfaces evaluate the product

What do you like best about the product?

The GUI is very intuitive and easy to use.

What do you dislike about the product?

I would prefer it if other coding languages were available for the functions.

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

Benefit enrollment files created based on insurance carrier requirements. We are agile and able to implement new changes very quickly.

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?

Boomi is easy to use and develop with
I like the control and ease of putting together interfaces that are very strong
Connects to multiple vendors and outputs

What do you dislike about the product?

Some complex issues are hard to "code"
and it needs a sort shape

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

SuccessFactors HCM
quick and easy development and testing

Recommendations to others considering the product:

It connects to multiple outside vendors and can easily do the work
It is easy to develop and maintain