Based on the diversity happening in the IT world, connecting the dots in terms of integration is becoming more prudent, because any second saved in connectivity makes a huge difference in today’s digital era.

With more than 18,000 customers, Boomi Inc., recently sold by parent company Dell Technologies Inc., is crafting a name for itself in the intelligent connectivity and automation arena, given that “go faster” is one of its policies. 

SiliconANGLE Media’s livestreaming studio, theCUBE, provided in-depth coverage of the Boomi: Hyperautomation & the Future of Connectivity event, featuring interviews with company executives, who discussed the firm’s key trends in connectivity and automation and where its heading. 

Here are five insights you might have missed from theCUBE’s exclusive Boomi coverage. (* Disclosure below.)

1. ‘Go Boomi It’ is the new norm post COVID-19

With the onset of COVID-19 in early 2020, it was a race against time for the world to incorporate effective solutions to stop the pandemic from continuously wreaking havoc on enterprises — not to mention the world at large. 

Moderna Inc. is an example of an organization using technology to take the bull by the horns during the pandemic, because by December 2020, its vaccine had been approved by the FDA for emergency public use, playing an instrumental role in curbing COVID-19 — based on its efficacy of nearly 94.1%. This feat wouldn’t have been achieved without notable players behind the scenes, including Boomi, which helped seamlessly onboard new employees needed to ramp up the vaccine production. 

“They couldn’t bring them on fast enough; they couldn’t onboard these people,” said Mandy Dhaliwal, chief marketing officer at Boomi, during an interview with theCUBE. “We were able to accelerate that onboarding and cut the time in half so they could focus on what mattered.”

Therefore, “Go Boom It” took a new turn as the firm’s customers such as Moderna were looking for solutions to tackle the pandemic. As a result, this slogan cemented the pervasiveness and capability of the Boomi platform, according to Dhaliwal. 

2. Boomi integration helps orgs tired of swiveling between applications and systems

Boomi acknowledges that time is money, and its human-centric solutions provide a stepping stone toward faster integration in the digital ecosystem for optimal returns. For instance, Boomi helps the American Cancer Society with its cancer-fighting objective by integrating key applications, such as NetSuite and Salesforce, to increase the connection between patients and volunteers by 39%. 

Before adopting Boomi solutions, ACS was grappling with integration challenges, including inconsistent data across crucial platforms and improper data sync. To combat these issues, the ACS integrated more than 120 external systems, data stores, and applications using Boomi’s platform. Now, 250,000 transactions are processed daily. 

Boomi seeks to take its integration prowess a notch higher through Boomi Event Streams, an embedded event-driven architecture service that integrates event-based data to maximize scalability, flexibility and speed in digital ecosystems. 

“We’ve connected over 189,000 different devices, application points, data endpoints to people, and we’re seeing that grow 44% year-on-year,” Ed Macosky, senior vice president and head of products at Boomi, told theCUBE. 

3. Intelligent connectivity and automation should be at the epicenter of integrated experiences

With connected devices expected to reach 25 billion by 2025, a data-driven integrated experience will be vital when boosting trust and loyalty among key players.

Boomi’s integration platform as a service has already set the ball in motion by addressing the critical need for automation and intelligent connectivity to prompt integrated experiences. For instance, Boomi’s iPaaS service enables customers’ data to be easily and rapidly connected across ecosystems and applications regardless of location. 

“When we got started, things used to take months and months; it came down to weeks, it came down to days, it’s down to hours, and we’re looking at seconds to define connectivity,” said Chris McNabb, chief executive officer at Boomi, during an interview with theCUBE. “That’s our vision for intelligent connectivity.” 

Boomi AtomSphere also makes integrated experiences a reality, because it’s a 100% secure, scalable, cloud native, artificial intelligence-powered and low-code platform. Therefore, the automation deployed simplifies and accelerates the ability to unify people, processes, applications, systems and data globally.

Automation is also emerging as a prerequisite to digital transformation because autonomous operations are seamlessly connecting digital interactions. 

With intelligent connectivity being the fusion of 5G, AI and internet of things, the benefits include low latency and high speed. Boomi is already using intelligent connectivity to optimize police officer and steward safety in Amsterdam, Netherlands. 

Watch theCUBE’s complete video interview with McNabb and Macosky below:

4. Boomi’s hyperautomation is on the horizon

Boomi intends to go a notch higher by offering automation “all under one roof” in its hyperautomation vision. 

“It’s no longer about named connections and having fixed parts connected to applications,” McNabb said during his interview with theCUBE. “You need to be able to react intelligently, pick the next endpoint, connect very quickly, and bring that into your ecosystem.” 

Given that hyperautomation surpasses traditional workflow automation to incorporate robot process automation, AI, event-driven automation, machine learning and structured process orchestration, Boomi is making significant steps toward this realization through its Event Streams and AtomSphere platforms. In fact, AtomSphere has enabled the connection of more than 189,000 unique endpoints while processing at least 4.8 billion integrations monthly. 

Boomi’s automation is revolutionizing the future of higher education by modernizing campus experiences of more than 150 schools and universities, including the University of Canberra, the University of Sussex, Barry University and Cornell University, through unprecedented agility and speed to streamline operational efficiency and remote learning transitions. 

5. Welcome to the Discover catalog and Boomiverse, the home of ready-made solutions

Boomi provides more than 26 million maps developed by clients to ease connecting different applications. This is in line with its solutions objective to offer a smooth transition and save time, which has prompted a 95% customer satisfaction and retention rate. 

To scale user experience through simplified connection setups, Boomi revealed a new Discover catalog, a library of solutions that offers a look at how more than 18,000 customers utilize the platform daily. 

“It’s not only connecting systems, apps, databases and clouds … you’re connecting people, processes and devices,” McNabb told theCUBE.

The Discover catalog offers seamless searches, because solutions can be browsed based on app, category or function — for instance, connecting NetSuite with Shopify or connecting with Amazon Simple Queue Service. 

Boomiverse is a solution-based platform that enables users to build apps and explore ideas while learning from one another. 

“The Boomiverse is so vibrant now; it’s a force multiplier for Boomi in terms of our reach and how customers are learning from each other every day,” said Chris Port, chief operating officer at Boomi, during an interview with theCUBE. “We now have over 100,000 members as part of our community. That brings the knowledge base to bear with all of their experience.”

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

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