Boomi Eases Data Mapping with Power of Cloud, Community 
Boomi’s latest upgrade to its AtomSphere cloud integration platform marries the power of cloud and community to make data mapping easier and more productive. IDN looks at Boomi’s Atmopshere Summer '10 release, which includes a ‘suggest’ feature to let customers tap the expertise of some 5,000 data mapping projects.
Boomi’s latest upgrade to its AtomSphere cloud integration platform marries the power of cloud and community to make data mapping easier and more productive. IDN looks at Boomi’s Atmopshere Summer '10 release, which includes a ‘suggest’ feature to let customers tap the expertise of some 5,000 data mapping projects.
AtomSphere Summer ‘10 features Boomi Suggest, the industry’s first and only “suggestion wizard” designed to take a lot of the hassle, uncertainty and expense out of data mapping – a crucial component to any cloud-based integration project.
“Companies know how painful, time-consuming and awful data mapping can be, so, we created the Boomi Suggest wizard to let customers take advantage of all the collective knowledge our Boomi users have amassed,” Rich Nucci, Boomi co-founder and CTO told Integration Developer News. “Simplifying the data mapping process of integration creates substantial efficiencies and dramatically speeds ROI,” he added.
Boomie Suggest is more than simply a library of formats. The wizard uses an algorithm to evaluate the most useful mappings based on what customers use and implement most for specific data fields, formats and application integration projects. “When customers saw the results from our wizard’s [data mapping] suggestions they told us, ‘Wow, this is awesome!,” Nucci told IDN.
“When customers saw the results from our wizard’s [data mapping] suggestions they told us, 'Wow, this is awesome!',”
Richard Nucci
CTO, Co-founder
Boomi
Boomi Suggest works like this:
As Boomi’s users build and deploy integrations, their data maps are anonymously indexed. Boomi Suggest reviews some 5,000 data maps already in the Boomi repository, and recommends mappings based on ranking algorithms that weigh suggestions based on similarity and relationships of the various data fields being integrated. After they receive Boomi Suggest recommendations, users can review and approve them. If users approve the suggestions, Boomi’s technology further automatically generates that data mapping, which typically can take care of as much as 80% of the required mappings.
Boomi AtomSphere connects providers and customers of SaaS, cloud and on-premise applications via a pure SaaS integration platform that does not require software or appliances in a seamless, self-service model. SaaS providers using Atmosphere include salesforce.com, NetSuite, SuccessFactors, RightNow, Marketo, Taleo, and Zuora, among others, Nucci added.
As to privacy, Boomi keeps all customers anonymous. “These data mappings are not published by user name, they are simply data mappings our customers have found most useable and most valuable.
Boomi’s AtomSphere Summer '10 also includes other features, based on specific requests from developers, customers and partners. These upgrades include:
- An updated user interface built using HTML5 which also incorporates numerous enhancement requests from the Boomi community.
- A new rollback feature for building integration processes, allowing users to roll back to any prior version of an integration process.
- Advanced user management capabilities with ability to create custom roles to support larger enterprises.
At least one cloud analyst also likes the Boomi’s approach to helping automate data mapping in the cloud, especially as the task can be complicated by on-premise / off-premise requirements.
“This issue of data mapping is made more difficult by the security and governance challenges of the cloud computing environment. Boomi appears to be taking a well thought out approach to this problem.” Judith Hurwitz, President and CEO of Hurwitz & Associates said in a statement.
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