Tried doing some Proof of Concept with Dell Boomi and just jotted down my experience.

1. My Take on Dell Boomi
Anil Kurnool

2. DISCLAIMER
Al l the opinions presented in this presentation are purely personal and in no way
represent that of my employer, current or past!
I claim no responsibility for any damage that happens due to some decisions you
might take post going through this presentation.
Would highly recommend you going through Dell Boomi’s documentation or
consultation from their representatives for any technical advise for your
organization.

4. Access and installation
 Boomi allows Trail users a 30-day period, where they
can do some “Hello World” programs.
 During installation of Atom (Run-Time of Boomi) you
are shown two options, one an on-cloud runtime and
another a local (on your machine) runtime.
However, the on-cloud runtime is disabled.
 You have to either download a 32-bit version or 64-
bit version, based on your machine.
 In my case, I used a 64-bit version.

5. Installation Success
 Once you download the
install4j based
installer, it is intuitive
installer.
 Presto! You have Atom
on your machine!!

6. Create a Process
 Creating a process is
simple, if you are
familiar with any of the
SOA/EAI tools in the
market today.
 The IDE is web-based
and simple. Mostly it is
intuitive with “help” and
samples at a click away.
 Then go the deploy
tab?!?!? 

8. Deployment
 Here is the place where Dell puts a break on your
journey. You cannot deploy it on your local atom and
can only deploy it on the Atom-Cloud.
 The catch-22 is
 You cannot create a Cloud based Atom as a Trail User as
you are forced to use the local atom.
 You cannot deploy your process on your local atom.
In Simple words:
You can only play around with the IDE – with no real
Proof of Concept; Taste of a pudding, is eating it, not
smelling it, isn't it?? 

9. My Take
 Go in for Dell Boomi, if you are looking at only
moving data across applications. In most of the
cases, the major EAI/SOA tools end up as “million
dollar FTP tools”, as most of the times, no value-add
is done by interchange of data.
 You will save millions in form of license fees, SI fees and
O&M expense, CAPEX for the “server racks” etc.
 Not that is a fashion to have some XaaS in your
landscape, it makes sense only when you really
need “only” data movement….
 You can argue that you have ETL tools for that –
yes, once again the argument of “cost”….

10. Thank you very much!
If you have come so far, you may as well give a feedback or
your opinion about this presentation.
Please feel free to reach to me at Anil (at) AnilKurnool (dot) com