Articles and guides on system integration, APIs, automation and iPaaS platforms.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.