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Dell Boomi today announced the Fall 2016 update of its industry-leading integration platform-as-a-service (iPaaS).

Companies such as Facebook, Amazon, Google and Uber are renowned for pioneering digital transformation. These companies have revolutionized the ways billions of people share, shop, communicate, and move about.

How do NetSuite customers use the Dell Boomi cloud integration platform to unify their data and applications? Customer presentations at SuiteWorld in Las Vegas on April 24-27 offer a unique opportunity for you to find out.

Energy and utility companies are striving for cloud-first modernization and dramatic business transformation as large-scale changes disrupt these industries.

If you’ll be at SuiteWorld in Las Vegas on April 24-27, take the opportunity to explore how native-cloud integration can help you get the most from your NetSuite investment. With Dell Boomi, you can rapidly and flexibly connect NetSuite with best-of-breed applications, both in the cloud and on-premise.

When ecommerce was the new, new thing, many technology pundits—who now would probably like to modify their predictions—saw its emergence as the death knell of physical retail. Without a doubt, it had a major impact. But who would’ve thought when Amazon.com launched in 1995 that in November 2016 it would open its first physical bookstore?

Will “serverless” be the new way of computing? When we look at the evolution of computing, it’s clear that we’re moving rapidly towards greater abstraction between the application developer and the underlying hardware.

My clients want to launch new technology capabilities that will rapidly deliver a competitive edge. Unfortunately, project backlogs and multiple priorities often slow the pace of innovation. Overworked and understaffed IT teams often compound this problem, resulting in employee turnover that makes it even harder for businesses to retain the best and brightest IT staff.

Today, Dell Boomi’s parent company, Dell Technologies, announced an agreement with Salesforce that extends the long-standing relationship between the two companies. As part of the agreement, Dell Technologies will expand the use of Salesforce’s market-leading customer relationship management (CRM) platform to Dell, Dell EMC, Dell Boomi, and VMware employees worldwide.

With the current popularity of the terms “cloud washing,” it’s good to start off with a basic premise: You can’t migrate a traditional on-premise application to a hosted environment like Amazon or Microsoft Azure and call it a cloud service.

As respective leaders in cloud ERP and CRM, NetSuite and Salesforce co-exist at many organizations. So it was no surprise that many visitors to the Dell Boomi booth at the SuiteWorld user conference in late April were joint NetSuite and Salesforce customers with a need to integrate the two systems.

What happens when an immovable object meets an irresistible force? The old riddle is relevant for many IT organizations sorting through how they put in motion their application modernization strategy.

When the term “big data” first burst onto the scene about seven years ago, experts predicted that organizations could dramatically improve how they operate by capturing and analyzing vast arrays of rapidly growing information.

Every successful business has partners. Dell Boomi is no exception. And Kitepipe is a great example of that.

Organizations in virtually every industry are reaping rewards with NetSuite’s cloud business management platform. And in most cases, integration with best-of-breed applications is critical for bringing the full benefits of NetSuite to life.

In mapping out and implementing digital transformation strategies, organizations tend to focus on improving the front-end customer experience.

The  Boomi AtomSphere platform was designed and implemented from the ground up to be an elastic, multi-tenant, hosted platform. It is not a retro-fit of a traditional software solution where multi-tenancy is achieved via multiple installation instances.

Shadow IT is rampant and here to stay. The question is: How is your IT team adapting to it? In most sizable organizations, various business units have deployed cloud applications without IT’s knowledge and control. These shadow IT services range from simple document sharing apps like Dropbox or Google Drive to more sophisticated software for such functions as marketing or customer relationship management (CRM

Today we’re announcing the availability of the Spring 2017 release for Boomi, the industry’s most robust and comprehensive cloud-native, enterprise integration platform

The past two years have seen record-breaking merger and acquisition activity globally. Total M&A value in 2015 soared to an all-time high of $4.5 trillion, according to Thomson Reuters. In 2016 M&A activity covered 46,000 deals, accounting for the third highest annual transaction value in history. And the outlook for 2017 remains robust.

In its eBook on quote-to-cash (Q2C), Salesforce describes Q2C as covering everything from the offer, order, and billing through revenue recognition and renewals, plus analytics.

May and June were busy months here at Dell Boomi. We announced our Spring 2017 release, delivering over 150 new features and enhancements for Boomi customers. We also announced Boomi World 2017, our inaugural customer conference, which will take place in San Francisco in September.

In this age of smartphones, driverless cars, and artificial intelligence, it’s easy to think that EDI is old hat. The core technology is indeed quite old, dating back to the 1948 Berlin Air Lift, when suppliers and shippers needed to track deliveries of food and supplies to the parts of Berlin under Western control.

For high-growth companies, improving process efficiencies is critical. Manual processes and ad hoc work are viable with small, close-knit teams. But as an organization expands, poorly developed workflows quickly erode productivity and profits.

In Malcolm Gladwell’s book, The Tipping Point, Gladwell defines a tipping point as “the moment of critical mass, the threshold, the boiling point.” The tipping point can happen in virtually anything — spikes in crime, social migration, birth rates, product sales — and software integration complexity.

As long ago as 2008, 451 Research noted that “the heyday of the enterprise service bus may have come and gone.” Nine years later, it’s fair to ask whether legacy enterprise service bus (ESB) systems can possibly keep up with the data integration requirements of today’s enterprises.

At a recent banking roundtable hosted in London, participants were presented with two questions:

Business executives and chief information officers face more challenges than ever these days. They are dealing with a litany of issues as the pace of business accelerates and an ever-growing array of new competitors circle around them.

Chief information officers need to dramatically change their thinking, according to a recent article in The McKinsey Quarterly.

If a company has become a market leader by creating cloud-based business applications and services for demanding corporate clients, which approach do you think it should take when it wants to connect SaaS applications, automate workflows, and synchronize data across its own organization?

Digital innovation is disrupting industries at lightning speed and CEOs are feeling the pressure to deploy the right technologies as we enter the second half of 2017. While digital transformation (DT) stands at the forefront of many organizational priorities, it isn’t as simple as implementing one specific tool or technology. Each individual business has to determine its own pain points and priorities.

Have you noticed lately that virtually every new technology innovation, system, or application is “powered” by artificial intelligence (AI)? Is it really? Hmmm. I guess it depends on how much you want to water down the definition of AI.

Our CEO, Chris McNabb, recently wrote in a blog post that adopting a “cloud-first” strategy is a business imperative. Organizations must become experts in managing their cloud applications and data to compete in our hyperspeed and brutally competitive age of digital transformation.

Application integration is something that every company must eventually come to grips with. Maybe it’s pushing workloads to the cloud that brings integration to the top of the priority list. Sometimes it’s just the need to streamline internal processes and data flows. But one event is sure to create the need for integration — a merger or acquisition.

Meetings in space? Virtual assistants? Computers linked to our brains? This may sound far-fetched now, but in the future, these technologies could well be a reality — according to the next generation of workers.

SAP SuccessFactors customers have a great opportunity to learn how leading organizations use Dell Boomi for human capital management (HCM) integration at the upcoming SuccessConnect customer and partner conference, Aug. 29-31 in Las Vegas.

For all companies in the Dell family, giving back to the community is part of who we are. From my time at Dell Boomi, I have seen that employees throughout the company aim to be not just great partners to our customers. They also care about positively contributing to the communities around the world where we live

Salesforce integration remains a key challenge for most organizations. With more than 150,000 mid-sized businesses and larger corporations using Salesforce, the cloud-based customer relationship management platform is a both a treasure trove of useful data and a lynchpin for daily operations.

Digital transformation is getting a lot of attention around South East Asia these days, with many IT conferences, news articles, and industry analyst reports covering the topic and attempting to address its challenges. Many IT leaders around Asia see it both as a necessary evil and the unknown beast they don’t know how to tame.

Recently, a prospective Boomi customer asked me what I saw as the biggest change in the cloud integration space in the past couple of years. I didn’t have to think twice. The answer is creativity.

For the second year in a row, the Philadelphia Business Journal has named Dell Boomi as a Best Place to Work. To make its selection, the Business Journal partnered with Quantum Workplace to survey employees at companies across the region. The publication gathered anonymous responses to questions related to work environment, personal growth, professional development, people, and embracing change and new ideas.

If you’ve invested in SAP SuccessFactors, you’ve taken a big step toward modernizing your human resources systems with a leading cloud-based human capital management (HCM) application.

Best Practices. Two words that raise the hair on the back of your neck, and sometimes your blood pressure. Everyone wants to talk about “best practices.” But sometimes there really is a method to the madness. And when it comes to electronic data interchange (EDI), best practices are more important than with most integration technologies.

In the face of increasing globalization, rising customer expectations and greater choices, supply chain management is no longer just about matching supply to customer demands. It’s about differentiating a business and putting customer needs at the forefront of your operations.

Boomi World, Dell Boomi’s first-ever user conference, takes place September 20-22 in San Francisco at the Westin St. Francis hotel. It is bringing together the global Boomi community to learn and share best practices for using our low-code, cloud-native platform to build connected businesses.

One of the really cool things about long-term customer relationships is being able to see a company grow and evolve, knowing that you’ve been part of making that evolution successful. A great example of that is Kelly-Moore — one of the stalwarts of the paint industry. If you’ve painted your house recently, there’s a good chance you used Kelly-Moore paint.

If you’ve done any of these things lately: applied for a mortgage or a job, signed a contract, or needed to get multiple parties to sign an agreement, there’s a good chance you’ve used DocuSign. Thanks to DocuSign, there’s no more faxing, scanning and overnighting documents. Legal signatures are now transacted digitally, quickly and securely

Enterprises today face mounting pressure to deliver everything via digital channels: a better customer experience, increased customer retention, streamlined business operations, and just-in-time business intelligence. It’s an entirely new business model and to achieve it demands tight integration between business systems, processes and operations

The digital economy demands that enterprises consistently offer a superior customer experience across channels. To do this, integration becomes vital. But the integration environment is constantly evolving, adopting different technologies along the way. Some legacy implementations are often a byproduct of integration, which makes them inflexible.

Our first user conference is shaping up to be an excellent opportunity for our customers and partners to share their experiences and learn from each other. Boomi World is taking place September 20-22 in San Francisco at the Westin St. Francis hotel. It is bringing together the global Boomi community to learn best practices and gain insights for using our low-code, cloud-native platform to build connected businesses.

Deloitte Consulting LLP’s technology specialists draw on the strength of their company’s full suite of professional services and industry experience to help leading organizations around the globe address their toughest technology and business challenges

Cameron Cronin is a director of innovation and thought leadership at Accenture, helping lead its Cloud First Applications practice. He and his team work with global companies on critical technology strategy initiatives, including enterprise architecture, technical architecture governance, methodology and tooling modernization.

Though my official title at Dell Boomi is “chief operating officer,” my favorite role is being the company’s “chief customer success officer.” In that capacity, I would first just like to say a huge “Thank You!” to our customers. We view our customer relationships as partnerships. Thank you for being part of the Boomi family, and thank you for being great partners.

IT and business professionals descending on Boomi World in San Francisco this week have pressing concerns: How can they connect their systems faster and better? How can they strengthen engagement across their organizations and with their customers and partners?

It’s conventional wisdom that data and application integration results in better business. When systems are connected, organizations are more responsive to customer needs, more innovative, more efficient and more profitable.

Well, it’s over. Phew! Dell Boomi’s first-ever user conference took place Tuesday, Sept. 19th – Friday, Sept. 22 in San Francisco at the Westin St. Francis hotel. By all accounts, it was a great success.

It’s no secret that omnichannel B2B commerce is a must for small and mid-market manufacturers and distributors. They need to do everything they can to compete against larger rivals amid rising customer expectations. But barriers to entry have traditionally been high, requiring costly and complex legacy systems that are beyond the reach of many SMBs. Handshake, founded in 2010, is changing that equation.

This week at the annual Workday Rising customer and partner conference in Chicago Oct. 9-12, Dell Boomi is introducing a faster, more reliable way for organizations to onboard new staff and streamline the employee lifecycle.

For more than 30 years, businesses around the world have depended on EDI for their trading networks and ecommerce operations. EDI remains an indispensable technology, but many EDI products are showing their age. Some still require users to work with command-line or spreadsheet-like interfaces rather than modern low-code interfaces. And most are functioning as operational silos, disconnected from other key business applications and APIs.

For leaders of human resources departments, today’s number one challenge is building “the organization of the future” — one characterized by an agile, empowered workforce equipped with consumer-grade technology and information to fuel business innovation and growth.

In and of themselves, technologies like social, mobile and analytics are incremental advancements that offer organizations some interesting, but not game-changing, business opportunities, says Jeanne Ross, research director at MIT’s Center for Information Systems Research.

If you’ve paid any attention over the past few years, it’s that the buyer’s journey has become quite lonely. Whether it’s the new purchase of a computer or research around a particular cloud solution, both the internet and mobile devices now offer a plethora of search pathways

With the rise of ecommerce, traditional brick-and-mortar retail and distribution organizations have been challenged to adapt to new fulfillment methods. They need to leverage their existing assets and retail footprint to create true omnichannel customer experience.

Dreamforce is one of the cloud industry’s largest and most important annual conferences. And we’ll be there with plenty of customer and product sessions to help you create your connected business with Boomi’s cloud-native cloud integration platform as a service — iPaaS.

Salesforce is a revolutionary information platform. It is even better with integration. On its own, Salesforce can dramatically improve how companies run their sales operations, support their customers, and provide products and services to a market.

The Boomi World customer and partner conference in late September generated dozens of headlines across tech media publications. Journalists reported on Boomi’s rapid growth to 6,200 customers, the new Boomi Flow platform for workflow automation development, and a Boomi survey on the state and future of enterprise integration.

Today, the CIOs of healthcare payer organizations have a new mission: put member health front and center. And to do this, payer organizations need to transform their data and analytics efforts. Payers that have successful data strategies can achieve better healthcare outcomes for their members while lowering their claims costs. They can ensure standards of care and making a direct link between performance and reimbursements.

Legacy businesses can win against the latest generation of digital competition by building more connected, integrated businesses. The latest example of that is Accenture’s Intelligent Patient Service Exchange (IPEX). The platform helps life science companies transform their organizations. With best-of-breed, cloud-native applications, these organizations can revolutionize patient experiences across providers, payers and pharmacies.

As we approach Dreamforce 2017 (Nov. 6-9 in San Francisco), more and more Boomi customers are asking me the same question: “How is Boomi related to Salesforce Einstein AI?” Today, artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML) and deep learning (DL) are among the most used (and sometimes abused) words in the industry. Let’s explore the evolution of AI, why it’s relevant today, how Salesforce Einstein AI is enabling enterprises to use AI, and, most importantly, Boomi’s role in all of this.

Today nearly every enterprise needs to be a software-driven business to survive. And the enterprises that survive tend to thrive. Change is constant, failure rates are high, and when an enterprise genuinely meets the demands of its market, they often find themselves the only one left standing — or at least the only one with a sizable market share.

Slalom Consulting is a leading, purpose-driven company that helps organizations use technology to address business problems and build for the future. “Building for the future” often involves integrating with the legacy systems of the past. And the more entrenched those legacy systems are in your core business processes, the more likely you’ll need to adopt an iterative legacy modernization strategy that results in your data straddling two worlds, both legacy and the future.

Salesforce has become the world’s leading customer relationship management platform by equipping companies to better understand and serve customers. Now it’s applying those proven CRM principles to a uniquely complex industry on the brink of massive transformation — healthcare.

At the annual Dreamforce conference this week in San Francisco, Dell Boomi introduced a new integration connector that will help organizations make the most of new Salesforce Platform Events technology for accelerating business processes.

Many companies turn to integration to solve specific problems, such as connecting one business application to another. But Boomi integration platform as a service (iPaaS) offers much more than a low-code development environment for quickly building point-to-point connections.

IT modernization is on a fast track in Western Australia, backed by a AUD$3 billion investment by the state government that promises to digitally transform how government and businesses operate over the next 10 years

Dreamforce, Salesforce’s spectacular annual conference, was once again a showcase for how Boomi and Salesforce partner to bring intelligence to connected businesses.

If you Google the term “customer engagement,” you’ll get a lot of responses. Like over 10 million. Similarly, “customer delight” returns nearly four million. Marketers want to “engage” their customers so they can “delight” them.

Matt Rizai, the chairman and CEO of Workiva, puts it simply: “Better data drives better decisions.” More than 2,800 organizations, including more than 70 percent of the Fortune 500, rely on Workiva’s Wdesk enterprise management and productivity software for better decision-making and data visibility in finance, compliance, reporting, risk management and other areas

Moderna Therapeutics, a pioneer in messenger RNA (mRNA) technologies, drives biomedical innovation by harnessing the full power of the cloud. This approach required integration among a portfolio of applications, including SAP (ERP), Workday (HR), Solium (equity plan management), and Concur (expense reporting). For that, Moderna turned to Dell Boomi.

Today Boomi announced the availability of the Fall 2017 release for Boomi, the industry’s leading low-code, native-cloud integration platform. With Boomi teams can quickly and easily integrate virtually any of their applications, helping bring together their increasingly complex cloud and on-premise IT environments. Boomi integration helps companies work smarter, faster and better.

You’ve connected your most critical business applications to one another. Data — the lifeblood of any organization — is now moving easily from one system to another throughout your organization. And now you need a way of ensuring the integrity of that data.

The Boomi Community is the hub of our relationship with our customers. It is where they find answers to their questions, learn how to get the most from the Boomi platform, and engage with their peers to understand the best approaches to their integration challenges.

We’re living in an age of unprecedented digital and technological advancement. The pace of that advancement is astonishing and disruptive — whether at home or at work.

For companies interested in being “cloud-first,” most of the discussions out in the Googlesphere focus on managing the challenges of incrementally — to one degree or another — moving your organization to this ideal future state.

We’re living in the Age of the Customer. It’s an age without sales pitches. That’s a conclusion from Salesforce’s second annual “State of Sales” report, which was released last fall.

When a colleague suggested I read Perficient’s new guide on the Internet of Things, I was interested to see what one of Dell Boomi’s leading partners had to say on the topic. After all, guiding Boomi’s integration strategy for the IoT is part of my job.

As cloud technology and business practices evolve, it is important to capture the strategies that are working for chief information officers. To do this, I reached out to the followers of #CIOChat that I host on Twitter. I asked CIOs for their current thinking on public cloud, private cloud and hybrid cloud. We discussed how organizations can best take advantage of this fundamental technology shift. Hopefully, their insights prove valuable to you.

Laziness. Is that really a good habit for developers? Search the internet for advice on the virtues of successful developers, and you’ll find a wealth of observations, not all of which exactly square with one another. The differences shouldn’t be surprising. People vary, and successful people will vary in how they go about achieving success.

Across the globe extreme weather events and natural disasters routinely bring disruption, chaos and economic hardship to communities and businesses.

Coupa helps organizations gain greater visibility and control over how they spend money. Their cloud-based suite of business spend management applications provides a rich set of software for automating the workflows guiding procurement, expenses and accounts payable tasks

The Boomi Community is the hub of our relationship with our customers. It is where they find answers to their questions, learn how to get the most from the Boomi platform, and engage with peers to understand the best approaches to their integration challenges.

Trustworthy data that can help guide key business decisions is critical to any organization’s success. But today, putting the right tools and processes in place to ensure access to accurate information is more challenging than ever.

Trustworthy data that can help guide key business decisions is critical to any organization’s success. But today, putting the right tools and processes in place to ensure access to accurate information is more challenging than ever

Whether checking in a new patient, delivering vital clinical information at the point of care, or teaming with third-party services, healthcare providers and payers must integrate a diverse set of systems to operate effectively.

There’s a lot of research out there that says B2B integration can make or break your business. In fact, industry analysts have called out B2B integration as one of the top three critical integration scenarios that businesses face.

Steve Wood, Boomi’s new chief product officer, is a serial innovator. Previously a vice president at Salesforce, Wood founded the low-code workflow development platform vendor ManyWho, acquired by Boomi in 2017. That technology is now the foundation for Boomi Flow, a key part of Boomi’s unified platform for helping its customers build connected businesses.

The sales landscape has changed for independent software vendors (ISVs). Customers no longer buy applications based strictly on traditional characteristics such as functionality and scalability.

The bad news is right on top of our new infographic, The Case for the Connected Business: 89 percent of organizations suffer drawbacks from poor integration, and 59 percent of IT professionals say poor integration is their “Achilles heel.”

Companies doing business internationally, regardless of their size, have a business need for foreign exchange (FX) data. Reliable and timely currency information is key to maintaining accurate financial and accounting processes and pricing strategies. This is easier said than done.

What the healthcare marketplace needs now is a way to easily provide and share products and services that enable healthcare consumers, providers, payers, and third-party services to interact with greater ease. Such an open healthcare marketplace will push the boundaries of data transparency for healthcare consumers.

The hyper-competitive financial services market is continually evolving. Tweaks made to services today have the power to attract swathes of customers tomorrow.

On Wednesday, March 20, 2018, Salesforce announced the signing of a definitive agreement to acquire MuleSoft for approximately $6.5 billion. Salesforce indicates that MuleSoft will power what it is calling its new “Salesforce integration cloud.”

Financial Services is undergoing rapid change. Mobile banking and fintech systems are spurring the emergence of the European-led Open Banking initiative.

Pre-conference training is the perfect way to kick off your experience at Boomi World 2019, October 1-3 in Washington, D.C. — and another great reason not to miss our annual user conference.

Dell Boomi helps customers achieve some astonishing results, by quickly and easily uniting everything in their digital ecosystems. With Boomi, enterprises see IT productivity soar, realizing quantifiable results in less than a year.

My colleagues Josh Tabak and David Irecki have written recently about features and benefits of the Dell Boomi Platform that help organizations accelerate growth and digital transformation. In this post, I’ll continue that conversation, covering four more ways that Boomi delivers value and helps organizations move quickly to achieve their strategic goals.

At Slalom, we work with a lot of companies that are migrating from legacy on-premise applications to new applications running in the cloud. Over the years, many of these companies have built custom applications on top of their legacy applications.

We’re excited to roll out the Boomi World 2019 Session Catalog — a jam-packed agenda of diverse breakout sessions designed to give you insights and inspiration to get the most out of the Boomi Platform.

In recent years, the pace of mergers and acquisitions has accelerated at a record-breaking clip. Companies closed $2.5 trillion worth of M&A deals in the first half of 2018 alone, and that momentum seems to be carrying into 2019.

In today's technology-driven times, businesses rely on data to inform the right strategic and operational decisions. But making sense of data that is everywhere is not easy: Some data is old, some data is new. Some is red and some is blue.

It’s hard to believe that the first Boomi World conference was held just two years ago. The third edition of Boomi World promises to top them all.

Timing is everything — and that includes picking the right moment for a fast-growing company to integrate its enterprise resource planning system with data visualization. Start too soon, and you risk missing future opportunities. Wait too long, and the project becomes overly complicated.

The faster and more smoothly a company’s supply chain system can exchange data and manage trading partner relationships, the sooner the company can deliver products and get paid. It’s that simple.