Boomi

Boomi is an integration platform that lets teams connect applications and data through low-code drag-and-drop flows.

How to use Boomi

1. Sign up at Boomi’s website and open the AtomSphere interface.
2. Create connections for each system you plan to link, selecting the built-in connectors or adding an EDI profile when required.
3. Drag components onto the canvas to build a process, reusing any existing steps from your shared component library.
4. Configure filters, maps and business rules, then run the visual test mode to check each path.
5. Choose a runtime atom, deploy the package and let the managed cloud update itself in the background.
6. Watch the execution dashboard, set alerts and tweak versions as your requirements change.

Our Experience With Boomi

What we liked

• Learning curve stays gentle; several colleagues with no prior integration background were productive after a single afternoon thanks to the clear UI.
• Reusable parts cut build time dramatically, letting us roll out changes across many flows without hunting through code.
• EDI comes ready to go, and the module handled AS2 certificates with less manual work than the tools we’ve used previously.
• The platform team hosts, patches and versions everything, removing the weekend upgrade chores that used to eat into project hours.
• Web service support felt solid: REST and SOAP endpoints were up quickly, and testing them inside the same window saved context switching.

Where it could improve

• While the drag-and-drop canvas stays friendly, the colour palette and icon set look dated after long sessions, and the dashboard widgets offer limited customisation.
• Performance dipped on a few high-volume nights; a manual restart fixed it, yet automated scaling would have helped.
• The shared AS2 service works, though logging is sparse and advanced routing options are thin.
• Complex ETL workloads still need an external tool; the mapping engine copes with straightforward transforms but struggles with heavy aggregation logic.
• Handling nested loops demands more clicks than seems necessary, and that slows down intricate process design.

After several months in production, the balance stays positive: configuration wins over coding for the majority of daily tasks, community answers land quickly, and minor rough edges rarely outweigh the time saved during each release cycle.