Boomi’s data integration
platform offers next-level
connectivity to IFS customers
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“By adopting ‘switchboard thinking’,
where all business-critical applications
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are connected by one central point,
organisations can speed up supply
chains, improve service responses and
compete globally like never before,” said
Sakari Jorma, Senior Vice President of
IFS. “Businesses across all industries –
from aerospace and defence to power
generation – will be able to connect their
best-of-breed systems to their IFS core
through Boomi’s unified, cloud-native
platform. The partnership reaffirms
IFS’ commitment to offering customers
choice and freedom to leverage their
existing digital property to achieve faster
time to value.”
This new partnership means IFS
customers can now access a ‘digital
switchboard’ integrating the deep
functionality of IFS applications with
the dozens of others required to run
HR, Finance and other functions of their
choice today. Boomi brings over 200
pre-built connectors configured easily
via an ultra-modern real-time drag-and-
drop interface. IFS customers can build
integrations faster, typically reducing the
time spent on development by weeks or
months – an unheard-of step-change for
many legacy industries.
Commenting on the benefits of the
partnership, Derek Thompson, VP of
EMEA at Boomi, said: “The strength of this
partnership is in the different expertise
IFS and Boomi bring. The loyal customer
base of IFS deserves the most intelligent,
scalable and flexible platform and Boomi is
honoured to be chosen as the foundation
for the ERP solution of the future.”
IFS’ Chief Product Officer, Christian
Pedersen, said: “As one component in
our customers’ ecosystem of solutions,
technologies and data, we fully
understand the need to offer complete
openness and freedom of choice. By
partnering with Boomi, we are taking the
next logical step to empower businesses
with out-of-the-box connectivity to the
digital switchboard from our already open
and natively API-enabled platform.” ◊
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FS, the global enterprise applications
company, has announced its new
partnership with Boomi, a Dell
Technologies business. The resulting
technology stack combines best-in-class
Enterprise Resource Management (ERP),
Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) and
Field Service Management (FSM) into a
‘digital switchboard’ that unites industrial
process expertise with cloud agility. Over
the last three decades, the 4,000-strong
IFS team has built specialist enterprise
applications spanning manufacturing,
aerospace and defence, engineering,
construction and infrastructure, energy
and utilities, and service management. As
these core industries now digitise their
processes, they need to connect silos of
information, increasingly held in the cloud.
This requires increasingly agile ways to
connect, disconnect and reconnect large
and fast-changing pools of data. Boomi
was conceived to solve just these issues.