Boomi Inc., the Dell Technologies Inc. subsidiary that focuses on data integration and governance, is kicking off day two of its Boomi World event in Washington, D.C. today with a raft of product enhancements.

They include expanded functions for its application programming interface or API management and event-driven architecture or EDA features that expand developer options for consuming and exposing business information.

Boomi, which Dell acquired in 2009, positions itself as a platform for delivering insights about business operations that enable customers to operate more efficiently. The company saw 80% growth in the third quarter of 2018, according to Dell Chief Executive Michael Dell (pictured).

The company’s 9,000 customers use the integration platform-as-a-service to integrate data and apply metadata that enables them to better understand how data moves within the organization and what applications use it. That’s useful in optimizing business processes and getting a better understanding of an organization’s data assets.

“We look at the ability to connect applications, data, things and people, the ability to run anywhere and the ability to engage everywhere,” said Div Manickam, director of portfolio messaging. “We create a trusted golden record of your data.”

New features that permit organizations to track data movement are useful for guiding decisions such as the best times to deploy infrastructure to handle capacity needs, Manickam said.

Boomi now supports full lifecycle API management with three new functions: API Proxy, API Gateway and API Developer Portal. The features make it easier for organizations to expose services outside the company, control access to the services and understand who is using them. The API proxy feature governs consumption of API data behind the firewall. “Think of it as a demilitarized zone,” Manickam said.

This release also has a developer portal that enables organizations to create and expose APIs with full knowledge of how they are being consumed. A dashboard shows trending API data that can be used to better understand what features and functions are resonating with outsiders.

The portal can also discover available services and enable developers to self-administer applications, self-register and approve the use of APIs. The API proxy enables customers to incorporate third-party data and APIs across clouds. It now works on all of the major public cloud platforms.

A new event-driven architecture initiative provides a dedicated page where developers can experiment with applications that ingest streaming data. Boomi previously supported event-driven ingestion via message queuing platforms but is now adding support for open-source streaming services such as Apache Kafka and Pravega along with support for Solace Software Inc.’s Solace publish-and-subscribe technology. “Just like you would connect to an FTP or HTTP server, we are building connectors to support EDA,” Manickam said.

Boomi is delivered as software-as-a-service. The company publishes some pricing information here.

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