Boomi Widgets Ease SaaS Integration

Written by Steven Walling / July 31, 2009 3:41 PM / 6 Comments

Boomi is a platform for on-demand integration of software as a service. Until recently, all their tools for migrating and manipulating data from SaaS applications were self-service: you built a custom pipeline from point A to point B every time.

Now, business users with little-to-no coding ability can create connections between their favorite apps with Boomi Widgets that are pre-built. Speed and ease of integration is a major concern for SaaS use in the enterprise, and these widgets show great potential for streamlining that process.

The regular version of Boomi supports a full range of standard business software, from Quickbooks to Oracle Database and SAP ERP. Boomi's widgets are basically browser-based GUI controllers for how information is ported from a SaaS application and either another software as a service or an on-premise solution. They make it easy for anyone with a little knowledge about how tables work to integrate enterprise software platforms and create a pipeline of information that is extensible.

Any Boomi customer can create one of these widgets from their integrations that already exist, and this should save businesses the time and energy usually invested in creating the same integrations over and over again.

Boomi also says that soon anyone will be able to create and sell a widget on their platform with a significant revenue share. However, it looks like currently only the Salesforce.com and Netsuite connections have been widgetized and offered on the site. Unless Boomi picks up the pace and gets a wider array of them out on the market, this isn't going to create any kind of significant marketplace.

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Great to see our pals at Boomi getting the template religion. With thousands of customer integrations under our belt, we led the market by launching an entire library of wizard based integration templates last year:

http://bit.ly/Y6VcO

With hundreds of downloads on a regular basis and more templates now contributed by our user community than by us, it's no wonder other vendors are trying so hard to replicate our model. For the next few things to expect other vendors to try, check out www.castiron.com. There's a reason the mega-brands like Google, salesforce.com, HP, Oracle... etc are partnering with us for integration :-)

Posted by: Simon Peel | July 31, 2009 7:19 PM

Boomi rocks

Posted by: Aida | July 31, 2009 10:29 PM

thanks for article very

Posted by: nusret | August 2, 2009 7:22 AM

I think there is every reason why any one has to get into the widget based integration solutions especially in the SaaS environment. My old Tibco days we used to do the pre-fab solutions to domain specific needs, and later Cast Iron has taken that to a new level setting the bar - combining the crowdsource effect - template generation using crowdsourcing. Rest falling in line and following - what I visualize and hope to see is "Taking the Integration to the new heights" - (what I call Integration Widgets 3.0) - where in integration widgets can be generated dynamically for any app, and can be distributed to any consumer-centric platform, in addition to the enterprises.

Posted by: Bharath | August 3, 2009 6:38 AM

LOL, nice comment CrapIron. Way to troll other people's publicity, that's why no one in the industry respects you.

Posted by: Adam | August 4, 2009 9:06 AM