Articles and guides on system integration, APIs, automation and iPaaS platforms.
AI & agents7 min read
A practical guide to AI agents for integration teams: agents vs chatbots vs workflows, tools and MCP, grounding, guardrails, human approval, cost, and how to compare platforms.
API management6 min read
A practical guide to API management: the building blocks, the signs you need it, common mistakes and how to compare tools such as Boomi, Azure, Apigee and Kong.
Application integration7 min read
A practical guide to application integration: the building blocks, when you need a platform, common mistakes and how to compare tools such as Boomi, Logic Apps, MuleSoft and Workato.
B2B & EDI8 min read
A practical guide to EDI: X12 vs EDIFACT, AS2, SFTP and VANs, partner onboarding, acknowledgements, EDI vs APIs, e-invoicing context in Greece and the EU, and how to compare tools.
AI & agents6 min read
Design a narrow, useful AI agent: an order-status assistant for customer service with read-only tools backed by integration processes, built and tested in Boomi Agentstudio.
API management5 min read
How to identify each API consumer, limit their traffic with throttles and quotas, and set it all up with packages, plans and keys in Boomi Cloud API Management.
B2B & EDI6 min read
How AS2 works (signing, encryption, MDNs), what to exchange with a trading partner, and how to configure, test and go live with an AS2 connection in Boomi, with a checklist.
Architecture & patterns5 min read
Stop writing a mapping for every pair of systems: design a small canonical order model and implement source, canonical and target mappings with shared profiles and maps in Boomi.
Data mapping & formats6 min read
VAT categories, payment methods and warehouse codes differ in every system. How to translate them with Boomi Cross Reference Tables instead of hardcoding, and keep them right per environment.
Data integration6 min read
Stop reloading whole tables: watermark columns vs log-based change data capture, handling deletes and safe backfills, built step by step with Boomi Data Integration.
Data integration5 min read
The ELT pattern step by step: land raw ERP and e-shop data in Snowflake or BigQuery with Boomi Data Integration rivers, schedule them, then transform in the warehouse.
Master data management6 min read
The hub-and-spoke pattern for customer master data: model a golden record, connect ERP, CRM and e-shop as sources, and feed and sync it with Boomi DataHub.
Master data management6 min read
How to match customer records safely: exact vs fuzzy rules, quarantine for uncertain cases, stewardship to resolve them, and source ranking, built in Boomi DataHub.
B2B & EDI6 min read
Turn a retailer's EDIFACT ORDERS or X12 850 into a validated sales order in your ERP, with trading partners, EDI profiles and automatic functional acknowledgements in Boomi.
Application integration6 min read
Transient vs permanent errors, retries with backoff, a review queue for what needs a human, and alerts: a practical error-handling design, built step by step in Boomi Integration.
Application integration6 min read
Incremental polling with a watermark and idempotent creates: how to move e-shop orders into the ERP without missing or duplicating any, built step by step in Boomi Integration.
Event-driven integration7 min read
Why one bad event can block a consumer, how limited retries and a dead-letter topic fix it, and how to build, monitor and replay failed events with Boomi Event Streams.
Event-driven integration6 min read
Publish an order.created event once and let warehouse, invoicing and CRM each react on their own, using topics, subscriptions and the Boomi Event Streams connector.
API management5 min read
The API facade pattern in practice: design a clean REST contract for your ERP, then build, deploy and test it with Boomi API Management.
Workflow & low-code apps6 min read
Why approvals by email fail, the request-review-approve pattern that works, and how to build a purchase-request app with threshold-based manager approval in Boomi Flow.
Workflow & low-code apps6 min read
How a workflow app should talk to the ERP: keep system logic in integration processes, call them as services, and build it with a Flow Service in Boomi Flow and Boomi Integration.
Data mapping & formats6 min read
Turn an e-shop JSON order into an ERP XML order: profiles from samples, a Map with date, concatenate and lookup functions, and testing the result step by step in Boomi.
AI & agents6 min read
How to expose ERP and CRM operations to AI agents as MCP tools without handing over the keys: least-privilege tool design, read vs write tools, approvals and audit, with Boomi.
DevOps & operations6 min read
Execution history, runtime health, email alerts and events in Boomi, how to feed errors into your central monitoring, and which conditions are actually worth an alert.
Security & identity6 min read
Choose the right OAuth 2.0 grant type for a SaaS API, configure it on a Boomi HTTP Client connection, handle token refresh and scopes, and fix the most common errors.
DevOps & operations5 min read
Versioned releases for integrations: packaged components, deploying to test and production, release notes, rollback, and automating it all from a CI pipeline with the Boomi Platform API.
Testing & quality6 min read
How to test integration flows while you build them: fixed sample inputs, Boomi Test mode on a test runtime, inspecting documents shape by shape and deliberately testing error paths.
Testing & quality6 min read
A test-harness pattern for integration flows: fixed inputs, expected outputs and automatic comparison, run against a test environment and triggered from a pipeline via the Boomi Platform API.
Security & identity5 min read
Keep passwords, client secrets and certificates out of your processes: per-environment values with Boomi environment extensions, Certificate components, rotation and expiry tracking.
Architecture & patterns6 min read
When to wait for the answer and when to accept a request and process it later: the same order API built both ways in Boomi, with a 202 response and a queue.
Data integration7 min read
How data pipelines into warehouses and lakes work: ETL vs ELT, batch vs incremental and CDC, schema drift, orchestration and data quality, plus how to compare tools.
Data mapping & formats8 min read
JSON, XML, CSV, flat files and EDI, schemas, field mapping and lookups, plus the pitfalls that break integrations: encodings, decimal commas, dates and time zones.
Event-driven integration8 min read
Events vs commands, pub/sub, topics and queues, delivery guarantees, ordering and idempotent consumers, plus when batch or request-reply is the better choice.
DevOps & operations6 min read
Environments, versioning, CI/CD, per-environment configuration, approvals, monitoring and runbooks: how to build, release and operate integrations reliably.
Architecture & patterns7 min read
Point-to-point vs hub, sync vs async, request-reply, pub/sub, batch vs real-time, canonical models and idempotency: the patterns behind reliable integrations, and when to use each.
Security & identity8 min read
How to secure system-to-system integrations: service identities, OAuth 2.0, certificates, secrets rotation, encryption, safe logging, GDPR and network controls.
Testing & quality7 min read
Why integrations are hard to test, the levels of testing, test data and masking, mocking external systems, contract and regression testing, and how to compare testing tools.
Master data management7 min read
What master data is, how golden records, matching and survivorship work, the four MDM styles, when an SME does not need full MDM, and how to compare tools.
Workflow & low-code apps7 min read
What workflow automation is, how it differs from integration and RPA, when low-code apps make sense, how to govern citizen developers, and how to compare tools.
Application integration1 min read
A practical introduction to integration platforms (iPaaS): what they solve, when they are worth it and what to check before choosing one.