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Dreamforce ’12 Revisited

This year’s Dreamforce event was bigger than ever, and chock full of useful information to help Salesforce users improve their business processes.

Now that we’re a few months removed from Dreamforce, let’s reflect on some of the key learnings related to cloud integration.  For us, they include:

• If a company is using Salesforce, they inherently understand the value of cloud-based applications, and they’re probably using more than one application to enable their business processes.
• Companies that use more than one application have a need for scalable integration at some point in their growth curve.
• The need for a centralized view of all customer records is often a key driver for integration.
• Successful companies are rapidly adopting cloud integration.

Dell Boomi and some of our customers were proud to deliver break-out session presentations at Dreamforce ’12 that address the integration needs of Salesforce users.  Links to recordings of those sessions, and of one delivered by Salesforce, are posted below.

Integration sessions presented by Dell Boomi and/or Dell Boomi customers:

An SAP-Salesforce.com Integration Working Session

Application Integration Lessons Learned: Customer Share Their Stories

Service Cloud: One Version of Truth - Service Cloud and Force.com Automation

Integration session presented by Salesforce:

Choosing the Right Integration Strategy for Force.com

 

We hope to see you at an upcoming North American Cloudforce event, and at Dreamforce ’13.

 

Kelly-Moore Paints Adopts Dell Boomi for System Integration with Oracle E-Business Suite

This is re-posted from the Direct2Dell blog, by Stephen Spector

Kelly-Moore, one of the most recognized names and largest privately-held companies in the paint industry, needed to give their sales organization one view of all customer records and looked to Dell Boomi as the simplest and fastest integration tool in the market for Salesforce integration with their existing Oracle E-Business Suite and point-of-sale solutions. A complete case study of this project is now available for your review.

“A cost-effective way to jump start our usage and implementation of AtomSphere was using Professional Services and Training provided by Dell Boomi. With some help from their experienced team we were able to quickly implement our own integrations, and manage them with greater confidence.” Julius Mercado, Retail Applications Analyst, Kelly-Moore Paints

Dell Boomi provides Kelly-Moore Paints with some significant business advantages:

Ease of Use: Kelly-Moore quickly trained staff to now build, implement and manage their own integrations

Cost Savings

“At Kelly-Moore we want to focus our energy and resources on the quality of our paint and the quality of the interactions with our customers, not necessarily on IT infrastructure,” Grant Gouldon, Senior Applications Manager. “Dell Boomi allowed us to maximize the productivity of our IT team to quickly provide our Sales Reps with a tool to boost their effectiveness and gives them 360-degree view of their customers. The power and flexibility of Dell Boomi will enable us to keep a lid on the ongoing cost of ownership as our need evolve.”

Rapid Development & Implementation: Kelly-Moore easily met their project goals by completing integrations within the 2 to 3 month timeframe

Time to Value: Leveraging the experience and vast size of the Dell Boomi community, Kelly-Moore quickly consumed existing connectors to rapidly deploy the integrations

See the entire Kelly-Moore Paints case study.

Dell Boomi Named Value Leader in New EMA Radar for Integration Technologies for Hybrid Cloud

The EMA Radar for Integration Technologies for Hybrid Cloud: Q4 2012 is out, and I’m excited to report that Dell Boomi is recognized as a ‘value leader,’ the highest possible classification, and awarded “Best SaaS/PaaS Coverage and Support.”

According to the EMA Radar, Dell Boomi supports the broadest range of cloud use cases (such as cloud to cloud, on-premise to cloud, on-premise to on-premise and EDI/B2B) and public cloud providers (such as Salesforce.com, NetSuite, Workday and Success Factors) of any vendor in the study.

Specifically, Dell Boomi was recognized for:

• Functionality: the number of pre-built public cloud connectors and for breadth of security functions. In addition, the Boomi Suggest feature uses the intelligence power of the Dell Boomi community to recommend data mappings based on successful customer use cases, leading to much shorter time to value.
• Architecture: the breadth of cloud integration use cases, ability to scale, and volume of data flow, and very broad support for public SaaS and Iaas vendors.
• Deployment & Administration: the ability to deploy in an hour, plus the availability of extensive training and support.
• Cost Advantage: there is no annual maintenance fee, reducing the overall cost of ownership compared to competing products. Dell Boomi publishes pricing at www.boomi.com/products/editions/pricing

The world of cloud computing is maturing and enterprises are moving more of their business critical applications and data to the cloud. The growth that Dell Boomi is experiencing since being acquired in 2010 is a testament to enterprise trust of the cloud, and the recognition from EMA reinforces why Dell customers trust Boomi with their most important applications.