Boomi Reviews

I like the fact that its versatile and very easy to use and maintain.

The timeframe it took for us to implement wasnt the best

I love Boomi's Gentle learning curve;their most user friendly UI;most interactive community;very useful user guide and process library and LMS. I like the new features and functionalities they incorporate in every releases. Boomi is the best Integration and Cloud tool I have ever used.

Some things which needs their improvement like providing flexibility in running the same execution simultaneously with multiple extension values etc. But Very few cons. Their API Management should be improved.

I really like signing out of Boomi, going home and drinking a few pints of drain cleaner; just takes the edge off.

It's like buying a very expensive sports car, opening the hood and finding a clapped-out Trabant engine.

Ease of developing an integration. The product is self document there are a lot of options for connectors pre-built. There is a vast support network of resources help and training available to aid in understanding the development life cycle.

The product requires a lot of resources when running. Some development processes and methods are not as straight forward and take experience and trial and error to work around what should logically work 1 way but need to be handled in a less straight forward manner.

Boomi is very easy to set up and get started. It's easy to teach new employees and have them up and creating value for the company quickly. It's an intuitive product and makes creating integrations easy.

It seems like we're always running out of connectors. It takes careful management to not run out in our Non-Production environments. There's also no easy way to view queue management.

It is very easy to use. 80 percentage can be done without coding and the rest of the development can be done with limited Java Scrpting functionality.It integrates seamlessly with different systems (etl, ftp, webservices etc)

Customization is the biggest challenge and lack of thd documentation of the product

Simple to use, quick to develop. I was able to develop a workable process in one day!

Auto-names objects which can lead to confusion over which is the correct version.
Gives 4 levels of errors when setting up email notifications - but there still can be an error during a process execution which would NOT trigger the email, so the only way to discover this error is the go to the Execution console.

The software is easy to use. The low code approach is really low code. There fore it get's you uo and runnin in no time.

Sometimes it is hard to translate the user manual, to real practice.

Very easy to learn for a relatively experienced integration developer.
Best in the industry User Interface for an iPaaS.
Great set of features that covers most of the Integration patterns.
Good API Management features.
Good licensing model.

No possibility to export and save a process.

Boomi provides lot of out of the box connectors, comparable to its more popular competitor Mule. However, it is much cheaper and highly performant than Mule.

The only thing, I wish Boomi has worked more on is the cloud deployment and central maintenance of hybrid deployments.

Common development environment along with version control and revision history.
Development environment on cloud can enable a developer to become productive from day one.
Single place deployment and complete code life cycle management.
Common Dashboard to monitor the integer landscape components.
Automated housekeeping of logs and temporary files.

Memory management is a bit tricky, no option to allocate memory to specific integration processes.
Multi threading not very efficient and controllable.
Configuration Parameter management through process extentions is a bit complex and confusing.
Dependency on internet for development activity. In case of any network issue developer cannot continue with the development.

Boomi makes basic integrations extremely simple, non-technical staff are able to view and understand the integrations. There is a lot of power in the platform for complex integrations with the ability to expand using java. Ability to submit test cases is great and lowers the QA load for monthly releases.

Process reporting has a lot of information but it isnt always easy to view. When managing errors on a mobile device we must request the desktop version to even view the error specifics. Reporting on overall usage of the platform can be a challenge currently, technology is a data driven world and I would like to have more robust reporting to view runs/errors/platform stats/ and deployed processes all in one place.

Performance; the community; the smooth, all features included development platform.

A number of features take quite a lot of time to develop in the platform. The lack of XPath search and map functionality is tough to handle. Web service integrations (the core business of my company) feel rough and rudimentary, a lot of work still needs to be done on this field

Drag and drop canvas, easy to use.

Flexibility

Boomi is a tool that can be picked up easily by just about anyone and allows for very quick development.
Boomi makes prototyping integrations incredibly easy and quick and moving those solutions to production takes a few clicks.

As with most graphical programming languages there are limitations as to what the tool can do, and while there may be workarounds that can be done in the system sometimes those carry performance implications.

Easy to use, intuitive. Simple to set up schedules, deployments, tests. Changes are easy to make, test and rollback. Copying map functions that were recently added!

Limitations imposed by account features and cloud atom. Search can be slow, drop-down loading can also be slow for document properties for example. Adding identifier instance also collapses entire json tree which takes many clicks to reopen. Logs aren't the greatest, not always as detailed as it could be and are temporary.

Boomi makes integration development a simple easy way to connect to other applications. The ability to create patterns that can be used in other integrations within Boomi makes development simple and accessible for new projects.

Minor performance issues with large volumes of data. There are also instances where some component windows do not work as expected or have a poor usability due to limited visibility.

Easily able to integrate out of the box. Powerful enough to use for complex use cases.

There is nothing we do not like about Dell Boomi.

Dell Boomi is an component based drag and drop tool for different types of integration.

We can do the development in browser based cloud dell boomi UI with different set of components and adapters.

UI is very simple to develop and deployment is very friendly with inbuilt version control .

We can use Groovy and Javascript for custom logic business handling.

Components functionality avoid developers to spend much time on coding

The number connectors/adapters available for integration with heterogeneous application is limited.

Since development happens over browser in cloud, any dis-connectivity with internet will block the development.

Pros of Boomi -
- Easy to use interface
- Fast and reliable support guide and helpdesk operatives
- Powerful tool for non technical background individuals
- Deployment of dev process and roll back is very efficient and easy to do

Cons of Boomi
- Load can be an issue when transaction count exceeds a certain limit
- Reporting has to be compromised when dealing with load (turning low latency mode on but sacrificing process reporting)
- Moving to multiple molecules requires a separate license purchase. Existing package only allows a certain threshold

Dell is great for connecting disparate systems and helping us streamline our go-lives.

The biggest complaint with Boomi is the lack of built in monitoring and the level of knowledge within Support when calling in. Most of the time when relying on Support I have combed through the kbases, documentation and community forums. It can be frustrating getting kbases I already tried back from support.

What's not to like about Boomi. It's so easy to use, 0 coding required, the platform is on the cloud, it provides out of the box connectivity to most platforms/saas, easy to maintain and very active community. All these factors contribute to make this iPaaS the perfect solution to for any user with common logic.

The only downside that I can think of, is the cost. But you will realize it's worth it once you save time on developing.

Not much to manage in terms of the environment setup. i.e. the Java runtime aka "Atom" or "Molecule" (group of atoms) are managed for you. System upgrades are managed for you.
The development area is all web based (e.g. via use of Chrome).
Once you have past a bit of a learning curve, the approach is fairly straight forward and simple.
Forum is responsive with people helping.
Support tickets are addressed quickly.

Somewhat locked in to keep using the tool, once you start using Boomi.
The process documentation is via screen prints into word documents.
There isn't a way to export processes to keep a copy of process outside of the Boomi system.
Performance of larger scale ETL (say half million data rows) might be worse by factor of three compared to other ETL tools.
Development environment limits you to small tests (100 records/documents) .. Have to deploy to dev atom to test larger scale tests.

Boomi is the hub connecting all of our applications. We haven't found a system we can't connect into yet. It is extremely versatile.

The number of new ideas provided by the community can exceed the development pipeline capacity therefore resulting in longer than desired time to market for features

Boomi provided full function while still being easy to use and train others to use. We are a a multi-tenant Private Atom Cloud install so need our citizen developers to come up to speed quickly with the minimum amount of ramp up timre.

I wish Flow and MDH were more available to us.