Roularta
Belgium’s top media publisher used the Boomi Enterprise Platform to modernize legacy systems, improve error handling, and ensure a scalable, always-on architecture for critical publishing operations.
Business goals
Roularta Media Group, Belgium’s leading publisher, reaches 1.1 million weekly readers. After 20 years of in-house development, the company decided to modernize its fragmented applications without disrupting media production.
Roularta wanted to mitigate platform risks during major upgrades that included a new Customer Engagement Platform and SaaS transitions. Maintaining data flows for print deadlines during maintenance was vital.
The company decided to replace complex point-to-point connections with a centralized integration layer.
Integration Challenges
Roularta’s IT team encountered several obstacles complicating production cycles and infrastructure modernization:
- Integration Complexity: Decades of ad hoc, direct connections obscured dependencies, creating risks when updating core publishing software.
- Troubleshooting Delays: Fragmented integrations hinder the identification of where failures originate — editorial systems, printing, or connectivity.
- Single Points of Failure: A single runtime setup risked critical content publication deadlines during maintenance.
- Data Migration Hurdles: Moving Oracle ERP data to JSON required manual, repetitive updates across several teams without centralized coordination.
How Boomi Helped
Roularta partnered with Amista to implement the Boomi Enterprise Platform, enhance publishing speed and reliability by focusing on high-value tasks:
- High Availability Clustering: Transitioning to a clustered Boomi architecture allows for updates without downtime, ensuring consistent, timely publication across print environments.
- Low-Code Agility: Using Boomi’s pre-built templates and low-code environment, Amista migrated 120+ processes across 60 applications, enhancing scalability.
- Efficiency: Boomi consolidated updates from 20 teams into one integration point, turning a risky Oracle migration into a controlled success.
Results
Beyond accelerated publishing, Roularta gained end-to-end data visibility and control. Boomi’s centralized hub replaced fragmented connections, providing:
- Reliable Publishing: Clustered architecture maintains critical cycles during system updates and maintenance.
- Smart Error Handling: Rapidly identifies data vs. system issues, slashing incident routing from days to minutes.
- Scalable Foundation: Boomi’s low-code framework, ready for future SaaS and CEP expansion.
- Swift Resolution: Standardized reporting ensures technical issues reach the right teams immediately.
