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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 Enterprise Platform
Our 2023 roadmap mission continues to be focused on:
- Productivity and Time-to-Value: being the fastest and easiest way to get meaningful outcomes done.
- Continue to Innovate: solve incumbent problems using new and innovative approaches,
- Be Open & Neutral: ensuring our platform is easy to deliver within an ecosystem of partners and applications
- Be Market Focused: proactively track market and solicit feedback as a key driver to roadmap decisions
We also had three major announcements this past quarter that you will want to check out.
- Integration Quick Start: With this all-new wizard you can get started creating your integration processes with just a few simple questions. This feature is available to all accounts and we’ll be continuing to enhance, bringing even more intelligence and recommendations to make it easier than ever before.
- Bridge Mode: A new process mode has been introduced for Integrations called Bridge. This mode of execution provides low latency-like performance with more granular process logging.
- Flow Co-Design: This feature allows you to collaborate in real-time with other users on the same flow. A shared cursor view lets you know when and where other users are in a flow. This helps reduce overwriting errors and promotes collaboration across your teams.
Below are the service specific roadmaps and recent delivery highlights. Thank you for your continued support and partnership.
Platform
With the July release, we’re excited to announce the launches of Spaces and Boomi Labs! Spaces is designed to help customers manage their Boomi Enterprise platform usage at scale by creating a simplified portal where users can interact with managed integrations. Boomi Labs is a workbench for Boomi developers to access products used to build, manage, share, and publish Boomi assets. To learn more about Spaces and Boomi Labs, go to this page.
Boomi is engaging with select customers and partners for an Early Access program for Bundles—where users can create and package multi-product solutions in an easy-to-use UI. From there, users can also share Bundles to any account on the Platform. If you are interested in joining the program, you can sign up here.
To further our customers’ operational security, we have launched a temporary elevated access feature. While in the past Boomi support personnel could only be granted access across the board, support access can now be granted on a temporary basis to only the support staff necessary to carry out a task. Under this model, even if access is not manually revoked, it will expire in a configurable amount of time. For more information, see the documentation.
Recent Delivery Highlights:
- Boomi Labs
- Spaces
- Bundles (Early Access)
- Temporary Elevated Access for support
Integration
Within the Integration service, we continue to focus efforts around two key areas of investment: delivering an awesome user experience and providing robust lifecycle management to help teams scale their use of Boomi.
Last quarter we released our new quick start concept, to help novice users quickly create integrations in a matter of clicks. We have continued to enhance this new offering and recently added support for Boomi suggest for auto mapping, so that quick start users have one less thing to worry about. We also continue to infuse quick start with additional recommendations, enabling the system with automatic suggestions on connection, and related record types. These two enhancements provide subtle but highly useful functionality to help quick start users attain value as fast as possible.
To help with lifecycle management, we’re continuing our efforts to provide robust APIs in an effort to provide customers with the tools necessary for additional automation. We are continuing to work with our early access customers on refining APIs for component creation, as we prepare for general availability. Additionally, we continue work on new APIs that will enable you to easily find the differences of what changed between versions of processes and components. We’re excited to get these capabilities into your hands soon!
Recent Delivery Highlights
- Based on your feedback, we increased the default account library storage limit to 200MB for all accounts.
- In an improvement to user self-service, we added a new option in account settings to allow administrators to enable/disable component locking without having to contact Boomi support.
Have a product or technical question? Want to share a tip? Check out the Integration Product Forum.
API Management
We are delighted to share some exciting updates and improvements to our platform, all designed to make your API management tasks easier and more efficient. To begin with, our team has been working diligently on a significant leap forward – the ability to configure query parameters on an API endpoint. This enhancement will provide you with a new level of control over your API requests, enabling you to tailor your endpoint queries to your exact requirements.
In response to your feedback, we have also introduced the ability to customize the event file rollover time for Gateways and Atoms. Instead of the previous static one-day setting, you can now set it for 24 hours or less, with the new default time set at six hours. This change offers you additional flexibility and precision in managing your event files.
On top of these new features, we have upgraded the DeployedApiCallSummary API to facilitate better analysis and tracking of your API usage over time. This enhancement supports querying by month and year, making it much easier for you to monitor and manage your API usage trends.
Further enhancing our platform, we have added new Gateway and Atom container properties: ‘com.boomi.container.apigateway.metrics.reportNotFound’ and ‘com.boomi.container.sharedServer.http.metrics.reportNotFound’. These new additions will allow you to specify whether 404 errors are captured for metrics. By default, this behavior is set to false, providing you more control over your metrics data.
As always, your valuable feedback is the driving force behind our improvements. We look forward to your continued journey in API management with us. If you have any questions or wish to share some insights, feel free to visit our API Management Product Forum. For early access to future enhancements, consider joining our APIM Early Access Forum at https://boomi.to/apimearlyaccess.
Have a product or technical question? Want to share a tip? Check out the API Management Product Forum.
Atom Runtime
We continue to invest in providing you the most scalable and secure Atom runtime platform possible.
Support for running in containerized infrastructure continues with the ability for integration process executions within Atom clouds to scale up and down leveraging Kubernetes controllers. These enhancements will first be enabled in Boomi’s hosted public Atom Clouds, which will enable those clouds to scale more efficiently and handle increased execution traffic. Subsequently the elastic execution capabilities, Helm charts, and reference architectures will be made available for private Atom clouds, so you can take advantage of Kubernetes-based scaling as well for your self-managed runtimes.
We’re also continuing improvements to optimize the use of the shared file system for clustered Molecule and private cloud runtimes, to eliminate any potential bottlenecks to performance and scaling.
Regarding security, starting this quarter, we’re making some foundational improvements to be able to decouple shared third party libraries in the Atom runtime from connectors and custom scripts running within integration processes. This separation will enable Boomi to update those libraries and apply security patches without version dependencies that could interfere with integration processes. Look for more details on this in the coming months.
For those of you running your Boomi Atoms in a Kubernetes environment (or thinking about it), we’ll be releasing an updated version of our Redhat Docker image to support the latest versions of Redhat OS and Kubenetes cgroups. This update will also support the SAP JCo connector.
Recent Delivery Highlights:
- Bridge Mode is now generally available. This is a new process execution mode option that provides low latency-like performance while still capturing process logs for high volume transactions.
Have a product or technical question? Want to share a tip? Check out the Atom, Molecule, Cloud Runtime Product Forum.
B2B/EDI
The B2B/EDI product continues to evolve, and this past quarter is no exception. With a specific focus on healthcare with HL7 and MLLP, we have made various enhancements to improve the overall experience and close any gaps encountered by our customers. With respect to HL7, we have exposed additional information to various properties and tracked fields from these transactions. MLLP saw new enhancements to allow greater levels of security with client/server side SSL.
While healthcare remains an area of key focus for Boomi, and upcoming enhancements to address HL7 composites and repeating elements are in flight, we have also made strides in expanding our B2B/EDI effering into new markets. With our support for ODETTE via OFTP2, filling a need for new and existing customers that need to exchange data in the automotive industry. As the year progresses we will continue to strengthen our healthcare capabilities, and make key enhancements to the core infrastructure to better support customer use cases.
Recent Delivery Highlights:
- Exposed payload acknowledgements via document properties and tracked fields.
- Achieved Drummond group AS2 certification Q2 2023.
- MLLP multi-port configuration support.
- AS2 updated to support binary attachments.
Have a product or technical question? Want to share a tip? Check out the B2B, Trading Partners, EDI Product Forum.
Connectivity
Madhav SBSS / Lavanya Sambasivan
Connectivity efforts are focused on two main areas—Connectors, which focuses on the development and maintenance of our broad connector ecosystem, and Connectivity Services, which focuses on our SDK and connector developer tooling and enablement.
Recent Delivery Highlights:
REST Client Connector was in tech preview and has been our most widely used tech preview connector. It is generally available to all customers now, please visit https://help.boomi.com/bundle/connectors/page/int-REST_Client_connector.html for more details on the connector functionality.
We have also added a brand new help documentation section for developers to assist in OpenAPI connector development, you can find more details about this in this link https://help.boomi.com/bundle/connectors/page/int-Building_OpenAPI_connector_Gradle_DSL.html.
We completed our NetSuite certification for 2023.1 and updated Google Ad Manager to the 2023-05 API version, addressed several key defects in Database connector and updated Shopify connector to use FulfillmentOrder APIs.
Connector and Connectivity Services Updates
We have completed development of IAM Role support in Amazon S3, SNS and SQS connectors, we are working on enhancements to Kafka, AVRO to JSON and JSON to AVRO, dynamic topics are some of the features being considered. We are updating Database V2 connector to address issues around NULL support, doing analysis to support Rollback and Commit. SAP JCo V2 we are considering updating the JCo library to 3.1 version and X.509 authentication. We are also wrapping up testing on Oracle Fusion extensions support.
In Connectivity services, we are making UI enhancements to the connector operation creation experience that would allow users to easily import profile objects when applicable. We are going to release a new API that would allow connector developers to submit name change requests for their connectors. We are also continuing to invest in the open api framework and to that extent, making enhancements to the library to increase coverage and support for a broader set of specifications out there.
Up next, we plan to release JMS V2 in general availability, and release a new connector Amazon SP. We plan to make enhancements to SFTP V2 to support the latest version of JSCH lib, and support additional tracked properties. In ASB, we plan to enhance MCE and introduce dynamic queue/topics, update to the latest libraries and improve performance. In ABS we plan to add listening support among others. In MongoDB, support for $where with $expr, updating the underlying library to version 6. We plan to update the MQTT connector to support dynamic topics and finally update NetSuite to 2023.2 SuiteTalk API.
In Connectivity Services, we will be enhancing our oAuth framework to support environment extensions for access token parameters. We will additionally work on addressing some gaps in our current connector release scheduling logic as well as some existing limitations in the listener framework.
Later, We plan to work on ServiceNow REST connector, updates to Dynamics CE and FO, CRM connectors to support custom headers, better handling of 429 errors etc.
In Connectivity Services, We are committed to further enhancing our listener framework in order to optimize the user experience for our event-driven connectors. As part of this, we will introduce the functionality of defining start properties for listeners. This feature will allow users to establish operation properties that can be modified during process deployment.
Have a product or technical question? Want to share a tip? Check out the Custom Connector Development Product Forum.
Master Data Hub
Our primary focus this year is on enterprise performance and scalability enhancements to support our customers that are synchronizing larger domains with Hub. Phase 1 of this enterprise initiative will be centered on improving golden record query performance and responsiveness.
We are also strengthening our security capabilities by providing user authentication options and privilege assignment directly at the repository level. Up next, we are looking to build on these new access management options by supporting data masking for sensitive field data within the model configuration and ensuring improved throughput along with new Master Data Hub connectivity options.
We are also working on providing more data profiling experiences per deployed model. This will provide statistical profiling of golden records and enterprise business glossary associations so you can accelerate model deployments and can continue building trust into golden record definitions.
In addition, we will augment our data stewardship & discovery capabilities for quarantined record management, golden record merging and integrated metadata management in the native UI and relative Hub APIs.
Have a product or technical question? Want to share a tip? Check out the Master Data Hub Product Forum.
Flow
We are thrilled to announce the latest updates and upcoming features in Flow, following a successful Q2. Our focus has been on enhancing the user experience, strengthening cohesive platform efforts, and expanding Flow’s functionality.
One of our additions is the “Edit and Continue” feature, allowing users to make real-time edits to a flow during the design phase. This feature saves time and improves the rapid prototyping build experience.
In response to customer feedback, we have made significant improvements to the Flow Auditing page. This includes the ability to archive system audit trails, displaying deprecated users’ email addresses, first names, and last names, providing better context. Additionally, event types have been refined for more natural language reading, and quick filtering options have been introduced for more efficient auditing.
The Connectors page now features a list view, aligning with the UX consistency of the Flow home page.
We also introduced the “Relative Date Operation” feature, allowing users to perform operations based on relative dates rather than specific calendar dates. This eliminates the need for manual code computation and enhances workflow efficiency.
Looking ahead, we have exciting features in progress. We are working on grid support in pages, which will allow for easier row editing, improved filtering, and more. Soon, you will be able to run flows in your preferred language with our Flow Translation GUI. Additionally, we are developing a component suggestion feature that recommends the most suitable component based on the value you are working with, making the build experience faster and easier.
We are committed to continuously improving Flow to exceed your expectations. Stay tuned for these exciting updates and features that will enhance your Flow experience.
Have a product or technical question? Want to share a tip? Check out the Flow Product Forum.
Event Streams
In case you missed it, our new message queueing and streaming service Event Streams is now generally available and was launched in our June release.. Simply navigate to the Services menu and select Event Streams to activate the free Starter Tier. We also have a new Training Course & Certification available so you can get up to speed quickly. For more information, check out last month’s blog post.
We are currently busy working on providing an Administrative GraphQL API so users can manage event streams components like topics and subscriptions as well as view metrics about their usage. This will enable customers to build advanced dashboards and monitoring capabilities on top of Event Streams.
Up next we will be adding Message Management features so users have more control over managing backlog and dead letter backlog messages allowing them to delete and view message payloads in a simple and intuitive user interface. We are also actively working on opening up Event Streams to additional regions like EMEA and APJ.
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 & Certification
- Event Streams Recipes & 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
- Q4: October 12, 2023 @ 5:00pm ET
- Q1: January 18, 2023 @ 11am ET
- Q2: April 11, 2023 @ 5:00pm ET
- Q3: July 11, 2023 @ 11am ET
- Q4: October 10,2023 @ 5:00pm ET
We are looking for your feedback! Have ideas on how we can improve future product roadmap webinars? Take our brief survey.
Webinar Q&A
Thanks so much for your questions! While we weren’t able to respond to them during the webinar, we wanted to answer them here.
| Questions | Boomi Response | Assigned to |
| Regarding the planned enhancements for the Microsoft Dynamics CRM 365 connector. Will the improvements include the capability to set Environment Extensions for all the OAuth 2.0 parameters? Currently the extensible OAuth 2.0 properties are limited, for example, with respect to the HTTP Connector. | A roadmap deliverable this year is enhancements to the OAuth framework to support environment extensions for OAuth 2.0 parameters. Once that is available the Dynamics CRM 365 connector can leverage it. | Madhav SBSS |
| Does Flow have any capabilities around Push Notifications? From Enterprise Systems to the Front End ? | No, not yet but welcome to share this idea in Boomiverse community: community.boomi.com/s/ideas | Carolyn Musa |
| What’s the timeline to support JDK 17? | No definitive timeline at this time. We are planning a deep evaluation toward the end of this year, and will map out a timeline from there. However we are anticipating some major, non-backward compatible changes, perhaps most notably to the custom scripting engines such as Javascript. | Adam Arrowsmith |
| Two-way pip RosettaNet ( ex 3A4 transaction) : Will Boomi enable Two-way PIP in future. Currently it is implemented and MDNs are failing at the Trading Partner end. | We do support two-way PIP. We would love to connect with you to further understand your request and address this issue. | Joel Alonzo |
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.