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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.

Q&A with Dell Boomi Master Data Management (MDM) Product Manager Rob Moyer

As Dell Boomi announces Cloud Master Data Management (MDM), we took a few minutes to chat with Dell Boomi MDM product manager Rob Moyer about the challenges inherent in traditional MDM solutions; why Dell Boomi MDM can be a good fit for midmarket companies; and how it’s different from other solutions on the market.

What’s driving the demand for cloud MDM solutions?

As companies adopt IT solutions to fuel and support their growth, they are finding themselves with a growing combination of on-premise and SaaS applications. The result is decentralized, hybrid IT environments that are causing CIO’s real challenges to aggregating and reconciling distributed data. IT departments are finding themselves unable to provide timely, accurate information to their stakeholders and are looking to MDM solutions for help.

Why is cloud MDM a good fit for mid-sized companies?

Given this scenario, mid-sized companies have MDM problems. Unfortunately, they don’t have the resources or budget to address them. Before cloud MDM, the solutions available to these companies, while impressive in scale and capabilities, were costly to purchase, often over $1M, and required sophisticated IT resources to implement and maintain. Cloud MDM helps level the playing field, by making enterprise-class technology affordable through cloud economics and by removing the IT burden so companies with mid-sized budgets and limited IT resources can realize the value of MDM.

How is Dell Boomi MDM different from other Cloud MDM providers?

Dell Boomi MDM is the first cloud-based platform for integration, master data management and data quality services with a consistent look and feel, seamless navigation, user management and no need for systems integration.

Another difference is Dell Boomi MDM provides significant support for next-generation MDM. Data validation, cleansing, enrichment and matching establish a single version of the truth across the organization. Whether in a cloud CRM application or an on-premise finance application, users immediately see updated information, regardless of where the change was initiated.

Dell Boomi MDM customers also experience faster time to value. With Boomi Suggest, our crowd-sourced suggestion engine, customers can rapidly design and implement domain models. Self-service acquisition allows customers to start using the MDM suite immediately.  With Dell Boomi, customers gain a powerful, flexible and adaptive MDM infrastructure that is able to meet their continually evolving needs at an affordable price point.

Learn More about Dell Boomi MDM

Join Rob Moyer for an exclusive live webinar, featuring an introduction to Dell Boomi MDM and highlighting how to assure data integrity across multiple applications and systems, while retaining data security with next-generation MDM. Registration details can be found here and replay information can be found here.

Enterprise Community Partners' CIO Snags a Computerworld Premier 100 Honor!

Congratulations to Pradip Sitaram, senior vice president and CIO of Enterprise Community Partners for being honored as a Computerworld 2013 Premier 100!

Enterprise Community Partners, Inc, is a 501(c)(3) that provides expertise for affordable housing and sustainable communities. Their objective was to modernize their internal applications and infrastructure, leverage the Cloud and focus their IT on streamlining business processes and gaining efficiencies with Salesforce.com. Dell Boomi AtomSphere® integration supported their IT modernization efforts and saved them 90% in costs and sped their time to value by 88%!

Learn more about Enterprise Community Partners’ IT modernization project in their case study and in InformationWeek and watch Pradip below as he shares the story of their success.

Best wishes and hearty congratulations to Pradip and his team!

 

Master Data Management, the Cloud, and You: Free Live Webinar

Want to learn more about master data management in the cloud and how easy it is to improve data management across your organization?

We welcome you to join Chris McNabb and Rob Moyer of Dell Boomi for a free live webinar featuring an introduction to Dell Boomi MDM—a simple, cost-effective and scalable way to create and manage master data. We’ll show you how to assure data integrity across multiple applications and systems and take advantage of the economics of the cloud. We'll show you how easy it is to implement next-generation master data management (MDM) in a cloud near you.

Cloud-Managed Master Data Management
Date: March 12, 2013
Time: 1:00pm ET/ 10:00am PT
Duration: 60 minutes
Register Now

Dell Boomi “Strong Thought Leader in the Hybrid Cloud-Integration Market” says 451 Group

Industry analyst Carl Lehmann responds to Dell Boomi news last week that we consistently reach 1M integrations, stating,

Its one-million-per-day milestone heralds the dawn of the hybrid cloud-integration market and will become recognized as a wakeup call for systems integrators, cloud hosts and all manner of integration technology and services rivals to step up their efforts to enhance hybrid integration architecture as part of datacenter and cloud operating environments.

The report also shares a good overview of our approach and the market, and if this is indeed a wake-up call for you, check out the full report and then let’s talk, over coffee.