Boomi AtomSphere Spring '10 Extends Enterprise SOA to the Cloud
03/16/2010
Boomi, a cloud integration provider, announced the release of AtomSphere Spring '10, the newest version of its flagship integration platform, Boomi AtomSphere.
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AtomSphere Spring '10 features what the vendor calls "the industry's first" cloud-based, real-time integration broker and now supports both loosely-coupled and point-to-point integration architectures.
Real-time integration functionality is enabled through the connect.boomi.com integration broker and is accomplished with no changes required to firewall security. Enterprises can now extend their SOA to the cloud to integrate any combination of SaaS, cloud and on-premise applications in a real-time, loosely-coupled fashion, Boomi says.
This enhancement supports increased cloud services adoption by large enterprises and addresses a major requirement of Boomi's community, as well as the IT industry at large, by providing the missing link between SOA and cloud computing. "As enterprises continue to adopt cloud-based services, the ability to integrate data between applications in real-time, regardless of where that data originates, is a requirement for providing the value and return promised by cloud computing," said Rick Nucci, Boomi CTO. "This release addresses a major need in the marriage of SOA and cloud computing and reflects our continued commitment to lead innovation in the cloud integration space."
For those applications (either in the cloud or on-premise) that do not currently have a Web service, Boomi has included a new service with AtomSphere Spring '10 called Web Service Publishing, which enables customers to turn any integration process into a Web service that can then be deployed on premise or into Boomi's cloud. Web services deployed in Boomi's cloud can be dynamically invoked (either directly or in conjunction with popular API management tools such as Mashery) by any cloud or on-premise application through connect.boomi.com. All Web services, whether deployed on premise or in the cloud, are then managed from one central location in AtomSphere to help extend and strengthen existing governance policies.
Many of the updates and additions to this version of AtomSphere were based on input from the Boomi community. With AtomSphere's native multi-tenant architecture, requests and suggestions from the Boomi community can be rapidly implemented and deployed across the entire network, allowing community members to actively participate in the evolution of AtomSphere. Additional new features in AtomSphere Spring '10 include support for both SOAP and raw HTTP; enhancements to improve resiliency and error rate reduction; stronger process test and debug capabilities; improved/simplified schedule management for batch processes; and greatly improved visibility into status of long running/high volume processes.