As VMware Inc. provides platform virtualization software and services to more than 500,000 customers, it needs a modern integration platform that effectively manages API connections across any combination of cloud or on-premises integrations.

To do so, VMware is using Dell Boomi, a distribution architecture of containers that can run anywhere, integrate everything, and move data around as needed — and is boasting over 8,000 customers to date. So why is Boomi so successful in this space?

“The goal of the platform is to solve really tough technical challenges that you often meet in order to get to a business outcome of some kind,” said Steve Wood (pictured), chief product officer of Dell Boomi. “Its main goal is actually making it super easy to integrate your assets across cloud and on-prem.”

Wood spoke with Dave Vellante (@dvellante) and John Furrier (@furrier), co-hosts of theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s mobile livestreaming studio, during the VMworld event in San Francisco. They discussed the problems Boomi’s is trying to solve, the way they’re working closely with VMware, and why they’ve been successful (see the full interview with transcript here). (* Disclosure below.)

Boomi offers low-code, constant modernization, unlocking data

The biggest issue that customers are facing is the key concept of unlocking one’s data in the fastest way possible, according to Wood. Boomi helps companies make this possible.

“We bring you a journey to the cloud, not a cloud-only picture,” Wood said. “We’re not looking on-prem trying to be retrofitted to the cloud. So what customers experience is they get the agility that they expect so they get the value very, very fast.”

VMware offers Workspace ONE, a digital workspace platform that helps employees onboard within the organization and connect them to endpoint applications. Boomi is working with VMware on a similar low-code platform onboarding solution to help employees onboard faster, boosting productivity — not just ease of use for users, but also productivity for the developer, Wood explained.

“We … solve all of that so you can focus on … the true innovation,” Wood said. “It’s unlike, say, coded solutions, where … they’re a snapshot of that point in time, and if you leave them alone, they kind of slowly fade away. Whereas Boomi is constantly modernizing what you build on our platform.”

Watch the complete video interview below, and be sure to check out more of SiliconANGLE’s and theCUBE’s coverage of the VMworld event. (* Disclosure: Dell Boomi sponsored this segment of theCUBE. Neither Dell Boomi nor other sponsors have editorial control over content on theCUBE or SiliconANGLE.)

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