Oracle NetSuite’s partnership with Boomi Inc. goes all the way back to 2008, before Boomi was ultimately acquired by Dell EMC. The alliance began at a time when Boomi was making a big bet on single instance, multi-tenant architecture, even though the business world’s significant migration to the cloud was only a gleam in a technologist’s eye.

“It was not a foregone conclusion that the world was going to shift to the cloud,” said Jayson Maynard (pictured), senior vice president of global field operations at Oracle NetSuite. “There were a lot of server huggers out there and still are.”

Maynard spoke with John Furrier (@furrier) and Lisa Martin (@LisaMartinTV), co-hosts of theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s mobile livestreaming studio, during the Boomi World event in Washington, D.C. They discussed the persistent need to support legacy systems and a new resource NetSuite has developed from anonymized customer data (see the full interview with transcript here). (* Disclosure below.)

On-premises here to stay

While there may always be a segment of the information-technology world embracing their servers, NetSuite and Boomi are realistic about the need to support both on-premises and cloud-oriented environments. Customers will often have 15 to 20 legacy systems, according to Maynard.

“In the technology industry, we never go from 100 to zero in terms of what’s deployed in legacy,” Maynard noted. “We sort of layer and compost technology, and I think that’s what’s happening. There are a lot of on-prem technologies that will never go away.”

Regardless of which side to choose, plenty of data still resides in both environments. To maximize the value of its customer-generated information, NetSuite created Brainyard, a resource that takes available anonymized usage, survey, and third-party research data and translates that into articles, videos and reports.

“It’s my ‘not-so-secret anymore’ pet project,” Maynard said. “We had trapped inside of NetSuite all of these brains, all of this information. We decided to crack the hood open and open-source all of that information, put it on the website.”

Watch the complete video interview below, and be sure to check out more of SiliconANGLE’s and theCUBE’s coverage of the Boomi World event. (* Disclosure: TheCUBE is a paid media partner for Boomi World 2019. Neither Boomi Inc., the sponsor of theCUBE’s event coverage, nor other sponsors have editorial control over content on theCUBE or SiliconANGLE.)

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