Announcing the Dream Widget Challenge

Back in late July we announced the latest addition to our cloud integration platform - the ability for our users (such our ecosystem of partners) to build and embed Boomi Widgets.  A Boomi Widget is an integration, or connection, between 2 or more applications.  This integration allows information to be shared automatically between the connected apps, eliminating the need for re-keying data.  The Boomi Widget contains in it the "rules" of the integration, as well as a wizard to step through the setup process of the integration.

It is just as important to understand what a Boomi Widget is not as well.  A Boomi Widget is not a sample process, it is not a guide or quick start; it is a fully functioning application purpose built to integrate 2 or more specific applications.  The Widget user does not log into the AtomSphere platform and see process models and have to look at Data Maps, this work is already done.  They simply extend these base process for their buinsess needs, and deploy it; either onto a desktop/server of their own, or into Boomi's cloud.

Today we are excited to announce our Dream Widget Challenge.  In short, the Challenge enables the salesforce.com community to vote for the next Boomi Widget to be built.  Leading candidates are defined for you, and if you don't like any of those you can add your own!  And just to spice things up, not only are we committing to build the winning widget, but we will build it in time for Dreamforce, and give it away for free.  It's our commitment to community-driven innovation.

So please head over to dream.boomi.com and vote today, and be sure to share this site with your colleagues!