Looking Back 2010: Key Cloud Acquisitions
This is the final post in the Looking Back 2010 Series and, also, for the year 2010. After looking at the three key cloud events in this year (thanks to James Urquhart for kicking up the discussion on Twitter), I want to do a post talking about some of the key acquisitions in the cloud [...]
Is platform or provider lock-in the future of cloud services integration?
Yesterday, Dell bought Cloud Services integration provider Boomi and cloud punditry (including myself) started speculating on Dell’s strategy with this acquisition. My take on the acquisition is that Dell will put Boomi along with Perot Systems in its efforts to reposition the company as a consulting company a la IBM. Today Phil Wainewright wrote a [...]
Quick Thoughts: Dell Acquires Boomi
Boomi (see previous CloudAve coverage here), the Pennsylvania based cloud services integration provider, is acquired by Dell today. Ever since IBM acquired Cast Iron, there were speculations that Boomi could be the next in the block and it has come true today. Dell has been building up the speculation machine on a possible cloud acquisition [...]
Jitterbit Offers Deeper Integration With Salesforce
Image via CrunchBase Jitterbit (See previous CloudAve coverage), Oakland based integration provider, announced the availability of Jitterbit Connect for Salesforce so that organizations can seamlessly connect their data with Salesforce. I have been talking to some enterprise folks and every one of them is quite convinced about the value offered by Salesforce. By offering an [...]
T Shirt Friday #42 – Boomi
Everyone knows that professional conference goers like myself attend events not to listen to presentations, not to network but to collect schwag. Over the past couple of years I’ve done fairly well collecting tech t-shirts and I decided to create a weekly series critiquing tech companies t-shirt offerings in the expectation that a company with [...]
Boomi’s Spring Momentum: Enterprise SOA To Cloud And Rightnow Integration
Image via CrunchBase Boomi, the Pennsylvania based SaaS integration provider, is continuing the momentum they created with the Widget Challenge contest during Dreamforce ‘09 with a slew of new announcements this spring. Last week they announced the new release of their platform, AtomSphere Spring ‘10, that could extend the enterprise SOA to the cloud. Today, [...]
T-Shirt Friday #13 – Boomi
Everyone knows that professional conference goers like myself attend events not to listen to presentations, not to network but to collect schwag. Over the past couple of years I’ve done fairly well collecting tech t-shirts and I decided to create a weekly series critiquing tech companies t-shirt offerings in the expectation that a company with [...]
A 360 Degree View of Integration: Overcoming Glue Integration Challenges for ISVs and End Users
Rick Nucci is from Boomi a SaaS integration provider that sits in the middle of SaaS and cloud computing infrastructure players and “glues” them together. Generally integrations are hard, only accessible to specialized players and have a tendency to re-create the wheel over and over. It’s complex because of closed systems and vendor priorities making [...]
Platform Level Integration – The Post-API solution?
Late last year Yves Hiernaux guest posted here on CloudAve with a post that absolutely resonated for me. Given my lengthy background at the coalface of small business, it’s not surprising that I have a real affinity for solutions that facilitate the integration of discrete applications and, in doing so, make life a whole lot [...]
