What Everyone Must Know About Boomi for IFS Applications ERP
In the last decade, the rapid adoption rate of technology and acceleration of in-cloud app use has caused a proliferation of data silos to spring up within organizations. The result is many powerful business on-premise and cloud applications, legacy systems and databases that generate an ocean of disparate data we can’t align to drive business results. This integration deficit means many enterprises today have enough horsepower to cruise but not enough to compete for long-term. One place businesses are turning to solve the integration dilemma is the iPaaS industry; this is where Boomi comes in. Boomi is a leading iPaaS provider that offers connectivity across all segments of a company’s digital ecosystem: Its people, its processes, its applications, its data, its devices, and its digital things (IoT).
What is Boomi?
Boomi is a Dell Technologies business that specializes in integration platform as a service (iPaaS), API management, Master Data Management and data preparation. It is an iPaaS pioneer that has been positioned as a market leader by Gartner in Enterprise Integration Platform as a service (EiPaaS) for six consecutive years. Boomi enables the quick and easy connection of everything in your digital ecosystem from applications, data sources, systems, IoT devices to people so that you can achieve better business outcomes, faster. It is a low-code development platform that supports flexibility and scalability.
What Does Boomi Do?
Boomi does a lot of things. First among many is the provision of advanced integration. Boomi enables users to integrate multiple SaaS applications or SaaS to on-premise systems or even applications hosted on different public or private clouds. The platform is designed to support diverse integration and communication patterns, including application-to-application, pub-sub, real-time and event-driven web services, streaming, batch, ETL integrations, and more. Perhaps the most exciting benefit is that users can easily build integrations without the cost and time of complex coding. Boomi has developed a series of common integration attributes that allows users to create end-to-end integration workflows easily. Its intuitive UI comprises drag-and-drop mapping tools, pre-built integration processes, reusable components, and a library of connectors.
What is Boomi for IFS Applications ERP about?
Recently – specifically in February 2020 – IFS, the global enterprise applications company, tied a new knot with Boomi. The expected result of this partnership is increased consumer experience and satisfaction as Boomi is set to solve the integration deficiency problems of IFS customers.
Over the years, the 4,000-strong IFS team has built enterprise software such as ERP, FSM and EAM for various companies in different industries ranging from manufacturing, aerospace & defence, engineering, construction & infrastructure, energy & utilities, to service management. As these core industries go digital, they need an agile way to connect applications, silos of information and large and fast-changing pools of data, increasingly held in the cloud. By offering IFS customers, it’s over 200 built-in connectors, Boomi resolves these issues and removes the complexity involved in applications and data sources integration. Hence, these iPaaS solutions support the seamlessly and faster connection of company data, applications and new technology with its IFS applications. Boomi acts as a digital switchboard which unifies industrial process expertise with cloud agility.
Conclusion
In a nutshell, deploying Boomi with IFS Applications makes building integrations simpler and faster by significantly reducing development time by weeks or months, enabling digital transformation. Also, by adopting ‘switchboard thinking’, where all business-critical applications are connected by one central point -the digital switchboard- you can accelerate your supply chains, improve service responses and compete globally like never before.
