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This article recaps the Boomi Product Roadmap webinar and highlights some of the recently delivered product features as well as the upcoming roadmap. Have questions or feedback on what was presented? Drop us a note in the comment sections at the bottom of this post.
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Boomi Overview
Our 2024 roadmap mission continues to be focused on:
- True Freedom: We pride ourselves in being open and neutral without vendor lock in.
- Time-to-Value: Our solutions help you build quickly, deliver at scale, and ultimately accelerate your business outcomes
- Customer Obsessed: We listen to our customers and collaborate with them on how we can make our products better. When our customers win, we win.
- Innovation: Whether it’s new AI capabilities or a new way approach to an old problem – we are always pushing the boundaries of what iPaaS is each and every month during our product releases.
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Below are the service specific roadmaps and recent delivery highlights. Thank you for your continued support and partnership.
Ed Macosky, Chief Product and Technology Officer
Platform
For CY 2024 Boomi is working across the following themes for the platform:
- Security: We will continue to invest in more security products and services for our customers so they can do their business thru Boomi with high confidence. There are exciting new offerings on the docket like Key Management Service, Secrets Management, Revamped Audit Logging etc., planned throughout the year, for the security theme.
- Scalability: As we continue to offer more features for enterprises, we want to ensure that the Boomi platform is highly scalable and observable to meet the ever growing demand of our customers. There are exciting new offerings on the docket like Orchestration Service, Event/Notification Service etc., planned throughout the year, for the scalability theme.
- Ease of Use: As our customers spend more time on the Boomi products we want to reduce the friction points in accessing our customer offerings. This theme is geared towards making our customers more productive. Spend less time and get more done. We will continue to invest in Boomi discover products to ensure that customers have a handy catalog of recipes and accelerators available for their use cases.
Recent Delivery Highlights:
- Key Management Solution(KMS): This launch will give the ability for our customers to use a Boomi-managed KMS or self managed KMS(for on-prem installations) to secure environment extension based secrets. Highlights of the product release include:
- KMS to provide latest industry standard key size and encryption algorithms
- Runtime by default will use a data key to encrypt/decrypt secrets
- Will give on-prem customers ability to bring their own Hashicorp Vault (BYOV)
- Will allow Encryption of Environment Extensions Secrets in Transit Ability to rotate keys
All new Boomi customers will have access to KMS by default. We also plan to offer KMS to existing customers so they can also take advantage of this great new feature.
- Boomi Discover’s new UI: Boomi Discover is Boomi’s catalog of solutions, including Recipes and Accelerators. The new look and feel makes it easier to search, learn about, and install our solutions. Customers will now be able to easily access and use Boomi Discover directly from the platform’s main navigation, making it easier to use. Highlights of the product release include:
- Recipes are installable templates that help you save time when building in the platform
- Accelerators include a professional services engagement for a white glove solution experience
Head to discover.boomi.com to experience this refreshed look and feel today.
Boomi Labs
Boomi Labs is a recent addition to the platform, a central location for features available to manage and share Boomi assets across the platform and Boomi community. Within Boomi Labs you will see the newly released Bundles functionality as well as Boomi Spaces, process library publishing, and integration packs. The work we have planned for this year is focused on enhancing and simplifying Boomi asset sharing functionality and helping guide you along the way.
We recently delivered the aforementioned Boomi Bundles. Bundles are packages containing one or more Boomi assets that can be shared and installed. For example, a bundle could be an integration process you’ve created or an integration process paired with a workflow or app you’ve built via our Flow product. Bundles can also contain supporting materials that include documentation, images, or other resources for the Bundle consumer. Bundles can be accessed by all platform users from the Boomi Labs menu.
We are currently working on enhancing the Bundles UI based on customer feedback, simplifying the user experience as well as adding “Publisher” settings for public publishing.
Next we will be adding the ability to share bundles via account groups to make it easier for you to manage sharing at scale. Following that we will be providing the ability to create and maintain multiple versions of a bundle.
If you’re not familiar with Boomi Spaces it provides the ability to create portals where users can interact with templatized content. The experience for the end user is simplified, providing users who are not experts in integration with the ability to easily install, configure and run pre-built integrations while the more technical folks building them maintain control and oversight.
We are currently Enhancing the AtomSphere API Process Property response which will help guide consumers within Spaces. Next we will be enhancing the consumer UI to further guide end users in providing the appropriate values to enter and help ensure successful installation and execution. To further drive user productivity we will provide the ability to allow Spaces consumers to upload files that create a profile and the ability to map values.
We’re very excited about delivering these features to help simplify your experience and drive value and productivity. If you have any questions or feedback, or would like a further review please reach out.
Integration
Within the Integration service, we continue to focus efforts around two key themes for us in 2024. Developer and ease of use, as well as lifecycle management.
In building up to a major refresh of the build canvas coming February, we released a new refreshed component tree to provide a fresh modern look. We’re really excited to get your hands on our new build canvas, and can’t wait to get your feedback on it.
Focusing on lifecycle management, we started 2024 with a big splash with the release of our new component creation APIs to help you with our automation and migration use cases. See here to learn more about these APIs. Please remember to share your use cases with us, we’d love to learn how you all intend to use these APIs. Later this quarter, we will be releasing the component Diff APIs to all of our customers, these APIs will help you understand changes between two component versions. In parallel to this release, we will be starting our early access program for advanced versioning APIs which enable parallel development through branching and merging capabilities. We are super excited for this early access, and can’t wait to connect with our customers who join the program. If you haven’t done so already, please sign up today via http://boomi.to/adv-versioning-earlyaccess
Have a product or technical question? Want to share a tip? Check out the Integration Product Forum.
API Management
We continue to deliver key API Management capabilities across three themes: Provider Experience, Consumer Experience, and Policy and Security.
Provider Experience
The Provider Experience is all about providing API Implementers, Owners, or Product Managers a delightful user experience that accelerates the API creation and publication process from end-to-end, while providing insights on the adoption, health, and performance of those APIs to better inform your investments.
The API Policy Manager enables the configuration of reusable policies to be applied for runtime enforcement on the API Gateway. The API Lifecycle Manager allows you to bundle, deploy, test, and promote API Services and Processes between environments. And the API Dashboard provides feedback on adoption and operational metrics for your APIs. We are very interested in Early Access feedback on the Policy Manager and API Dashboard to continue to improve these exciting new experiences.
Moving forward, we’re enhancing the way we import and generate OpenAPI specifications for smoother transitions between API implementation and management, adding support for API Proxies to the Lifecycle Manager, and extending our catalog to enable importing and discovery of GraphQL endpoints and AsyncAPI event definitions.
Consumer Experience
The Consumer Experience focuses on enabling application developers coming to a developer portal to discover, learn about, subscribe to, and consume APIs, in order to drive adoption and build better engagement with your developers.
Moving forward, we’re introducing additional developer portal customization of navigation tabs, background images, and the login page, greatly enhancing the Portal look-and-feel. We’ll be enhancing our Developer Portal API for integration with third party or custom portal solutions, then introducing a full Portal refresh to fully address common customer requirements.
Policy and Security
The Policy and Security theme includes enhancements to the core gateway offering as well as additional policies and configuration options that provide more robust capabilities for secure runtime transaction management.
Moving forward, we’ll be introducing a major core gateway upgrade (v3), a host of new security and traffic management policies, and dedicated UIs for mTLS and CORS configuration. We’ll also be certifying a containerized gateway option for additional deployment flexibility.
Have a product or technical question? Want to try out the newest features? Check out the API Management Product Forum or join our APIM Early Access program.
Integration Runtime
As we kick off the new year, the Integration Runtime area continues to invest heavily in the performance, resiliency, and monitoring capabilities you need to be able to connect and automate your organization more than ever.
Our primary focus is optimizing the integration runtime to take advantage of Kubernetes’ native capabilities for auto-scaling and cluster management with a new feature called Elastic Executions. This will help you better scale integrations, reduce operational management, and make more efficient use of resources. We’ll be first rolling these enhancements out to Boomi’s public clouds, and then make it available to private cloud owners, along with reference architecture, deployment guides, and Kubernetes Helm charts to adopt for your self-managed runtimes.
We know that being able to move lots of data is only part of the battle: you need to be able to effectively manage and monitor that activity at scale too. That’s why we’ll be making it easier than ever to plug your Boomi runtimes into your third party application monitoring tools. Using the standard Open Telemetry protocol, you’ll be able to stream events, metrics, and logs into tools such as New Relic, Data Dog, Splunk, and more.
Recent Delivery Highlights
For those of you already with runtimes in a Docker environment, we published a major update to our RedHat image, with support for the latest versions of Red Hat OS (v9) and Kubenetes cgroups, as well as logging improvements, simplified installation permissions, and fixes for supporting the SAP JCo connector.
Additional Resources
B2B/EDI
In B2B/EDI we continue our focus on making quality of life improvements to existing standards to enable greater flexibility, as well as our focus on further enabling healthcare use cases. This quarter we released a major enhancement to our HL7, enhanced composites, to improve overall usability of HL7 profile configuration and usage downstream. This will be followed by enhancements to our MLLP server to enable support for multi-tenant environments.
We have a lot of exciting updates planned for MLLP in response to a number of our customers facing new requirements from their trading partners. Please stay tuned!
Have a product or technical question? Want to share a tip? Check out the B2B, Trading Partners, EDI Product Forum.
Connectivity
The connector roadmap generally revolves around three themes:
- The connector enhancements theme will include refining our existing connectors to address quality issues and close out feature gaps. The goal here is to focus on performance and scale and also our overall security and compliance needs
- The connector breadth theme will include creating new connectors to expand our connectivity footprint and meet the ever-evolving integration needs. This rolls up to the theme of performance and scale
- The connector enablement theme includes investments in tools and services to streamline and simplify connector development and enhance usability. The aligns with cohesive user experience strategy
Connector Enhancements
- The SFPE connector will be updated to support replay id as a listener start up property.
- Database V2 connector will be updated to support rollback and commit transactions.
- We are also addressing the backlog of defects and enhancements in many of our connectors like NetSuite, Oracle EBS v2, Google BigQuery, Snowflake, MongoDB, SAP Hana DB
- We will be enhancing the SFTP connector to update the SJCH library to support the modern ciphers and encryption algorithms.
- Amazon SQS and ASB connectors will be updated to support dynamic topics.
- Hubspot CRM and Google Drive connectors will be made generally available.
- The Azure Cosmos DB connector will be updated to support the NOSQL, MongoDB and Cassandra variants.
Connector Breadth
We will be building new connectors that offer connectivity to more applications and technologies to meet diverse integration requirements. We are releasing Salesforce REST and Veeva connectors in tech preview. We will be making them generally available soon. We will also be releasing a few new connectors this year like MQTT, Stripe and Amazon seller central. In the future, we do expect to have connectors for NetSuite REST and SAP Concur among many others.
Connector Enablement
We are launching a program enabling tech partners to build connectors for Boomi in exchange for exciting incentives. This program is geared towards creating more connectors by leveraging the SDK knowledge of our tech partners. More to come on this soon!
Next, we would be looking to enhance the user experience for connector catalog listings in the build canvas and the platform discover pages to offer a seamless browsing experience inside the platform or in public domains. In the future, we would like to offer our users the ability to manage their own connector versions and adopt newer versions at their own schedule and minimize any potential disruptions to their integrations from connector releases.
Have a product or technical question? Want to share a tip? Check out the Custom Connector Development Product Forum.
Master Data Hub
With Master Data Hub, our mission is to ensure that trusted and reliable data is consistent across systems and for Boomi to seamlessly adapt with you as your data environments change and grow. For us to communicate our strategy, we have two data categories to organize the amazing work from our team.
Enterprise: Ensuring enterprise-grade performance, security and extreme scalability with improved throughput
Management: Improving data stewardship and discovery capabilities
Delivery Highlights
As part of our security strategy, we’d first like to highlight an exciting new feature. Per our November 2023 release, you can now apply individual user permissions to Repository API requests. This JWT authentication enhancement brings additional security and governance to Master Data Hub repositories. Refer to our release notes to learn more.
Enterprise Roadmap
We are currently rolling out a major enhancement to the Data Stewardship Search Experience with a new golden record search engine to support improved query performance and responsiveness as you scale your record sets. Data reliability and consistency is vital here as we activate this infrastructure.
Now that we have rolled out enhancements to repository security including support for Boomi platform user credentials as a repository authentication option, we are excited to introduce field data masking also known as column level security with full or partial masking options. This unlocks more stewardship scenarios by keeping sensitive data hidden across all Master Data Hub UIs and APIs.
We are also working on rolling out a new Master Data Hub connector experience to support these new APIs and response profile generation for data models – to simplify and accelerate integration development for the core read and write actions against Hub.
For Enterprise Performance and Scalability, up next is a new concept called Early Delta Detection that will improve throughput seamlessly by prioritizing data requests with actual changes. This is especially helpful for high volume data loads where detecting or polling for field-level changes is difficult or not available at the Integration layer.
Also up next, we are planning more throughput performance improvements to harness our new query infrastructure and algorithms to improve record matching and incorporation time via parallel processing options. And finally, we are planning new methods to improve performance and decrease wait time for outbound synchronization to target systems.
Management Roadmap
An exciting new experience is In Progress to surface new golden record profiling capabilities directly within Master Data Hub. This will first provide statistical profiling of Boomi-managed golden records so you can better understand the shape of the core data to drive new modeling and data quality decisions.
Up next is repeatable field value management (you can think of these as repeatable data types or arrays within a golden record) ensuring critical edits to these fields are effectively delivered to the systems that need them. The same applies to record merging options and supporting comprehensive search and consolidation options at different phases of the data lifecycle.
In the future, we are working to support more quarantine record management options so you can readily analyze and steward high quarantine volumes. And as follow-up to our golden record profiling initiative, we are planning to support more entity metadata management options. Entities are the data types that contribute to the construction of a golden record in our Hub service. We plan to support new ways to better discover, monitor and standardize these entities so you can more easily plug them into data management and synchronization workflows.
New Golden Record Search Engine Early Access
We achieved a major milestone in our Master Data Hub service with the delivery of a new golden record search engine. This redesign of search marks a significant step towards achieving enterprise scalability goals and delivers a remarkable performance improvement (20-100x depending on the search cases) with large data sizes. We are excited to announce that this improved functionality is now available for private early access in Hub repositories dedicated to non-production scenarios. Activation requires no configuration changes. We invite you to participate in our sign-up program, where you can provide valuable feedback on the impact of the new engine within your Hub repository.
Have a product or technical question? Want to share a tip? Check out the Master Data Hub Product Forum.
Flow
We’re excited to announce the latest enhancements in your Flow experience with our recent quarterly release. These features are designed to streamline your connection with integration from Flow.
- Process Map Element – Simplifying Integration Connections:
- Connect to integrations seamlessly with the following short steps:
- One-time setup in your tenant settings.
- Add your integration account and match Flow environments to your integration environments effortlessly
- Drag the Process Map Shape onto the canvas to view all your processes from integration.
Say goodbye to configuring the Flow Services Server listener shape. It’s now quick and easy with the Process Map Element.
- Automapping – Intelligent Mapping Made Simple:
- Clicking the output button in the Process Map Shape while adding a process now triggers the Automapping feature.
- Intelligently assists when mapping to an existing type with return documents as lists or objects.
- Receive a compatibility score for the likelihood that a certain number of properties will be mapped from one value to the other based on the return document in Integration and the values in Flow.
- Import Profile Types – Effortless Type Creation:
- Introducing the Import Types feature on the Types page to assist in establishing a Type in Flow that corresponds to your Integration Profile for the input or output.
- Select “Import Profile”, choose the integration account from the dropdown, and effortlessly import JSON profiles.
- Enjoy a seamless process of creating corresponding Types in Flow based on your Integration Profile.
These updates simplify your experience when connecting Flow to your Integration processes. So, dive in and explore the simplicity and efficiency of the latest Flow features. Your Flow and Integration journey just got a whole lot better!
Have a product or technical question? Want to share a tip? Check out the Flow Product Forum.
Event Streams
We are thrilled to share the exciting developments in our 2024 Q1 roadmap, inviting you to join us on a journey that centers around three core themes: providing a Seamless Experience, delivering Innovative solutions, and enhancing Connectivity.
Recent expansions have propelled Event Streams into new geo-locations. Following the success of our November launch in the ANZ region, we are elated to announce the upcoming launch in the DEU (Germany) region this week.
Let’s dive into the roadmap highlights:
Seamless Experience:
Our current focus is on Message Management, allowing users to effortlessly view and delete backlog and dead letter backlog messages. This functionality, reminiscent of our Atom queue management, ensures a smooth transition for users moving from Atom queues to Event Streams. Up next is Token Management, offering users control over environment tokens for enhanced security. Looking ahead, we are planning Message Filtering, a feature similar to the Message Selector option in our Boomi JMS connector. This empowers users to define conditions based on message headers, ensuring precise message filtering within their Boomi processes.
Innovative Solutions:
The Schema Registry is in the pipeline, enabling users to apply profiles to a topic, enforcing data types. Importing schema into Integration through the Event Streams connector will become possible, fostering innovation in data management. Future plans include Topic Mapping, providing users the ability to perform custom mapping of topics and execute simple computations on messages before routing them to consumers.
Enhancing Connectivity:
Our next focus is on a Rest Interface, enabling users to publish messages via Event Streams using a REST interface for seamless connectivity. Looking even further, we plan to expand protocol support, incorporating AMQP, MQTT, Kafka, and Websocket protocols. This expansion ensures Event Streams can cater to an even wider range of third-party systems and IoT devices.
We firmly believe that these features will significantly assist more customers in their event-driven journey. Stay tuned for an exciting future with Event Streams!
Have ideas on ways we can improve Event Streams? Please continue to share ideas and feedback in the Product Feedback Forum.
Additional resources
- Event Streams Demo
- Documentation
- Training Course and Certification
- Event Streams Recipes and Community Articles
- Event Streams Website
Wrap Up
Thank you for your continued support and we look forward to seeing you at our next roadmap webinar. Check out the schedule below and visit our Product Roadmap Webinar Series website to register for upcoming events as well as access previously recorded sessions.
Upcoming Roadmap Webinar Schedule
- Q2: April 11, 2024 @ 5:00pm ET
- Q3: July 11, 2024 @ 11am ET
- Q4: October 10,2024 @ 5:00pm ET
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This article and presentation contain forward-looking statements based on current expectations, forecasts and assumptions that involve risks and uncertainties. As such, the dates and deliverables represented cannot be guaranteed and should not be viewed as commitments.