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Loqate Data Quality Services Extends Dell Boomi MDM Capabilities

More than 130 different address formats are used around the world, with some countries using more than one. There are even parts of the world where geographic proximity, such as “the third house on the left past the red barn”, is a legitimate address format. The same address may also be represented in several different ways, even within one country. For instance, “10 N. First Street,” “Ten North First St.” and “10 N. 1^st St” are just three ways in which the same address may be represented within a single database.

So as enterprises extend their global reach and collect massive amounts of data from multiple sources, tasks that from the outset seemed straightforward–like address verification–become a critical and expensive challenge. Inaccurate or inconsistent addresses can disrupt the delivery of materials, goods and services. Additionally, critical business processes related to master data management (MDM) such as CRM, fraud detection, insurance risk assessment, data analytics, store and territory planning – among others – are negatively impacted by these same data quality issues.

Data quality providers can help. That’s why Dell Boomi is proud to partner with Loqate, who announced today that its industry-leading address verification and geocoding technology is available to Dell Boomi MDM customers.

The partnership with Loqate is the next step in Dell Boomi’s strategy to provide a 100% cloud-based platform encompassing data integration, master data management and data quality services. Further, the inclusion of Loqate as a customer data quality service provider extends Dell Boomi MDM’s capabilities. Customers who use Loqate with Dell Boomi MDM can meet the address data verification challenge on a global scale with an affordable service that ensures data quality by validating, cleansing and enriching the address information as it flows through Dell Boomi MDM. With Loqate, only fully verified and consistent address information is synchronized across an organization’s various data platforms. Here's a screen shot of Loqate integrated in Dell Boomi MDM:

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The Loqate address verification and geocoding technology is currently available with Dell Boomi MDM and covers more than 248 countries. It can even convert addresses between different character sets, such as Chinese, Cyrillic, Hebrew and Japanese, so enterprise users, as well as their suppliers and customers, will always see accurate location information in their native language.

To learn more about how Dell Boomi MDM with Loqate can help resolve your data challenges, visit www.boomi.com/mdm or http://www.loqate.com.

All About the Cloud & Successful ISV Partnering in the Cloud

Dell Boomi was proud to sponsor SIIA’s All About the Cloud Conference in San Francisco again this year. One of the highlights was a case study presentation made by Warren Davidson of SuccessFactors along with Dell Boomi’s Founder and former General Manager, Rick Nucci. They presented a case study on partnering in the cloud. Specifically, Warren and Rick discussed why an OEM partnership between their two companies has accelerated growth for both organizations. Both of these cloud and partnership professionals also shared how to partner for success, what you can expect as a result of partnering with another ISV , and tips to ensure your own success in recruiting, securing and managing
partnerships in the future.  Watch the video of this presentation here.

We will soon be repeating this presentation in a live webinar where you can ask your own questions of our presenters. Be sure to check our webinar page, or you can subscribe to our newsletter, for updates on when this webinar will take place.  

SAP-certified connector for Boomi AtomSphere available now!

 

 

 

This newly certified connector enables customers to rapidly connect SAP’s cloud applications with other enterprise applications, whether on-premises or in the cloud. Customers can now find SAP-certified Dell Boomi Connector for SAP Cloud for Customer on http://www.boomi.com/solutions/sap.

The SAP Integration and Certification Center has certified that Dell Boomi AtomSphere integrates with SAP Cloud for Customer allowing customers to drive collaboration across their business. This SAP-certified connector supports current releases of SAP Cloud solutions. Dell Boomi integration enables the alignment of an organization around their customer, in a fraction of the time, cost and complexity of conventional integration products and appliances.

Also, since 2011, Dell Boomi is certified for connecting to the SAP NetWeaver technology platform and SAP Business Suite software, providing customers with an efficient, reliable and affordable gateway to the cloud. Customers gain greater enterprise efficiency within their organizations and support for existing connectivity for SAP solutions.

View the full list of Boomi connectors to help speed your on-premises and SaaS application integration. Learn more at www.boomi.com.

Prescription for middleware woes–as presented by Tom Barton of Novartis

Tom Barton, Head of Integration Services and Global Enterprise Architect, presented an “End-User Case Study: Using iPaaS to Expand Integration Capabilities—Lowering Costs and Complexity Through Retirement and Consolidation.” at Gartner’s Application, Architecture, Development and Integration (AADI) conference last week in London. Here’s a quick recap.

In 2012, Tom Barton was looking for a remedy. The enterprise middleware solutions in place were not meeting the organization’s integration needs. They were in limited use, with only a dozen or so interfaces that cost over $50K each to maintain. Integration and maintenance of these interfaces took too long and was too expensive, even with the use of offshore partners.

He also used a specialty middleware solution and maintained 120 interfaces, which was expensive and time-consuming. As part of an aging infrastructure, this solution also no longer met their cloud-enabled enterprise needs.

Tom’s objectives in finding a new solution were to meet their current integration needs, to be flexible and support cloud and mobile, to lower costs, and to speed development.

Tom consulted with Gartner analysts to learn more and determined that iPaaS was the ideal choice given its flexibility, agility, role-based administration, good for A2A and B2B integrations, was an excellent choice for cloud, and helps lower costs. Tom compiled a list of options and then evaluated five different solutions. He then chose to do a proof of concept (POC) with Dell Boomi—to update profile data Salesforce.com with internal Novartis data. The project took 25 hours to complete, the difficulty factor was low. Combining Boomi licensing fees and estimated labor costs, the integration cost savings was $18,275 over his traditional middleware approach.

Novartis benefits overall too, as this approach matches best in class middleware and SOA and grows as their business grows, Dell Boomi can be deployed anywhere around the globe, even with outsourced or near shore vendors.

In closing, Tom’s final question to the audience was “If you were building your business today, what would you do?”

Tom will be sharing his story again in June 18 at Cloud Slam ’13 in Santa Clara, CA.

SuiteWorld 2013 Recap

NetSuite’s annual user conference, SuiteWorld, was held at the San Jose Convention Center in California last week. Dell Boomi was a Platinum Sponsor again this year, with a large booth in the Expo Hall and a Breakout Session on May 15th. We were pleased to speak with many of the well over 5,000 people who attended this growing conference and trade show.

 Here are a few of the Dell Boomi highlights from SuiteWorld 2013:

• Dell Boomi was honored with the Enterprise Partner of the Year Award;
• NetSuite and Dell Boomi customer, Knowledge Universe, co-presented with us in our Breakout Session, Using Application Integration to Automate Business Processes with NetSuite. In that same session we shared uses cases from a few  of our other customers, including GoPro and Mindjet, and featured some of the business processes they enabled with Dell Boomi, such as
  EDI, HCM and Salesforce-to-NetSuite integrations;
• Two lucky SuiteWorld attendees won GoPro Hero3 Cameras after entering out SuiteWorld Sweepstakes – congratulations to both winners!

We thank NetSuite and their user community for a wonderful conference filled with exciting conversations about how they’re using Dell Boomi AtomSphere to automate business processes with, or how they hope to do so. 

NetSuite Names Dell Boomi SuiteCloud Enterprise Partner of the Year

In news announced at Suiteworld last week, Dell Boomi has been named SuiteCloud Enterprise Partner of the Year.

According to NetSuite's news release, "The Dell Boomi AtomSphere®, enterprise-grade NetSuite-to-SaaS and NetSuite-to-on-premise prebuilt connectors, and the Dell Boomi Integration for Human Capital Management, providing integration between NetSuite and providers of HR/HCM applications, has already netted 200 joint customers. This momentum with enterprise businesses earned it the SuiteCloud Enterprise Partner award."

Contact us to learn more about Dell Boomi partner opportunities.

Boomi Summer '13 Release: Q&A with Vadim Kovalyov, Integrations Lead at Anybill

We recently reached out to Vadim Kovalyov, Integrations Lead at Anybill, for a short Q&A on his experience with Integration Packs, a new capability announced this week for Dell Boomi AtomSphere Summer ’13.

Dell Boomi: What do you see as the benefits of Integration Packs over the previous technique?

Vadim:  I think the major benefit is the ability to reuse the same pieces of functionality (processes) across multiple accounts or customers. So we create the integration, then have one point of change and management at the master account level.

Vadim:  Another benefit is the fast deployment across multiple customers. This is very handy.

Dell Boomi: How quickly can you deploy Integration Packs to new customers?

Vadim:  The deployment is just few clicks. As soon as we made some changes, we can easily and quickly deploy it for EVERY customer that we set up using the Integration Pack.

Dell Boomi:  Can you provide more details on the data map extensions in your Integration Packs?

Vadim:  We integrate with QuickBooks Online. All of our clients categorize invoices in a different way—accounts or classes or customers—as some clients can categorize invoices by classes and some cannot. On the other end, in our system we have a set of categories as key-value pairs associated with every invoice. We use data map extensions to customize mapping of the key-value pairs to appropriate categories in QuickBooks. It allowed us to use one process (one Integration Pack) for all our QuickBooks Online clients with just one customization point.

Dell Boomi:  Thanks for your time and your perspective, Vadim. 

We invite you to visit Anybill.com, a leader in automated Accounts Payable payment processing. To learn more about Dell Boomi Integration Packs and our Dell Boomi Summer ’13 capabilities, click here. 

Novartis Uses Dell Boomi iPaaS to Phase out Integration Middleware and Expand Integration Capabilities, While Reducing Costs and Complexity

At Dell Boomi, we think integration Platform-as-a-Service (iPaaS) has the power and capabilities to help customers reduce their dependence on legacy middleware and benefit substantially through lowered operational costs and drastically reduced complexity.

As an example, in 2012, Novartis did a strategic evaluation of their middleware strategy which consisted of two traditional, full-featured, on-premise solutions supporting over 140 active integrations. Both were proving slow and expensive to develop and maintain, and the team was spending time and resources on upgrades and maintenance rather than business value.

An integration Platform-as-a-Service (iPaaS), Dell Boomi, was used in an initial proof of concept (POC) to connect internal Novartis data with Salesforce.com. The technical approach was to select endpoint interfaces from the iPaaS library and modify them to fit Novartis-specific data mappings. This project took about 25 hours to complete, and saw a 10x cost savings over the tools and process they had in place. As a result of this POC, Novartis invested in the Dell Boomi iPaaS solution and plans 600-700 integrations, 90% of which are on-premise to on-premise, or A2A, with 10% B2B integration. They are phasing out their legacy integration middleware and migrating these integrations to the iPaaS.

In 2013, they plan to migrate off their second on-premise middleware to address compliance risks and to match their cloud-enabled enterprise needs in the future. They realized that ETL, EDI, application integration and cloud integration are converging and an iPaaS solution can meet their requirements, now and into the future, quickly and at a low cost.

If you plan to be in London, May 16-17, we invite you to join us at Gartner’s Application, Architecture, Development and Integration Summit (AADI) to hear directly from Thomas Barton.

Are you considering phasing out integration middleware?

EMA: "Dell Boomi MDM is a strong option for those Mid-Sized and Large organizations wanting to implement master data management."

John Myers from EMA weighs in on Dell Boomi MDM and its value for growing companies:

"EMA believes the introduction of Dell Boomi MDM is key as an enabling technology in the important area of master data management for midsized organizations and large companies with distributed IT support. Dell Boomi MDM should be given strong consideration by mid-sized organizations with hybrid on-premise/cloud environments, and those large companies with distributed IT departments needing to increase business agility by providing “one view of the customer/product” domains and governance."

Download the full report and read more.

Dell Boomi: On the Road with LinkedIn

On April 30 at 11:20 am PT, LinkedIn will be talking about their experiences using Dell Boomi’s iPaaS solution to automate their lead-to-cash process by integrating Salesforce.com and Oracle eBusiness.

Come join us at Enterprise Data World, San Diego, April 29-May 2, 2013, where we’ll be showing our iPaaS cloud application integration and cloud-managed Master Data Management solutions.

Register here.