Providing patient-centered care is essential in today’s healthcare world, but a significant hurdle exists: ensuring all healthcare providers have a complete picture of a patient’s health. This is where coordinated care comes in. It’s the deliberate organization of care activities among healthcare professionals, allowing them to deliver seamless and effective treatment.

Imagine a patient with diabetes. They see their primary care doctor regularly but also use a fitness tracker and a blood sugar monitoring app, which generate valuable health data. However, this data is often scattered across different systems. Without coordinated care, the doctor might have access to this information, leading to missed opportunities for better treatment decisions.

With the use of coordinated care, healthcare professionals can tackle this issue by:

• Enhancing Patient Safety: Complete medical records help prevent medication errors and ensure doctors are aware of potential complications.
• Improving Health Outcomes: Timely and accurate diagnoses lead to better treatment plans and overall patient well-being.
• Boosting Patient Engagement: When patients see their healthcare team working together, it builds trust and encourages them to be more involved in their care.
• Increasing Efficiency: Streamlined care processes reduce redundancies, saving both time and money for patients and providers.

An integration platform must be used to coordinate this. Boomi’s integration platform, AtomSphere, bridges the gap between disparate healthcare systems. It connects Electronic Health Records (EHRs), wearables, health apps, and other data sources, creating a unified platform for all patient information.

This approach offers several benefits:

• Doctors gain a deeper understanding of a patient’s health beyond the clinic walls, allowing for more informed decisions.
• Patients feel more in control by sharing data from their wearables and apps, fostering a collaborative care environment.
• With all relevant data accessible in one place, care teams can collaborate effectively, ensuring everyone is on the same page regarding the patient’s health and treatment plan.

Boomi’s Advantages:

• Connects Everything: Boomi integrates various healthcare systems and data sources, ensuring a complete patient picture.
• Real-Time Access: Boomi’s API Management allows immediate access to patient data, facilitating prompt interventions and accurate diagnoses.

• Scalability and Flexibility: Boomi’s platform suits healthcare organizations of all sizes, from small clinics to large hospital networks.
• Security and Compliance: Boomi ensures all data integration adheres to healthcare regulations like HIPAA, safeguarding patient privacy.

• Proven Credibility: Gartner® positioned Boomi highest for Ability to Execute in the Magic Quadrant for Integration Platform as a Service published in February 2024

By implementing Boomi, healthcare organizations can break down data silos, foster collaboration, and ultimately deliver the best possible care to their patients. Empower your healthcare journey. Learn more about Boomi with egforit Software. 

Azure Integration Services is a set of application integration services within the wider Microsoft Azure offering. Hosted purely in the cloud, Azure iPaaS consists of four core elements:

• Logic Apps: creates workflows and business processes between services in the cloud and on-premises
• Service Bus: connects on-premises and cloud-based apps and services for secure messaging workflows
• API Management: publishes APIs securely for internal and external developers to use when connecting to back-end systems
• Event Grid: connects Azure and third-party services with a managed event-routing service, for event-based app development

These four are not packaged together, giving you the freedom to pick the components required for your particular use cases.

You can use Azure to connect virtually any cloud or on-premises applications, Microsoft or not. But naturally, Microsoft has made it easy to connect Azure iPaaS to other services within the Microsoft Azure platform. And organisations with a strong technical investment in Microsoft software often prefer the relative familiarity of Azure.

Azure Logic Apps connectors are available for Microsoft software such as Power BI, Outlook, SharePoint, and SQL Server, as well as for Salesforce, SAP, IBM, and Oracle.

You can also benefit from connectors for industry-standard business-to-business (B2B) formats such as XML, EDIFACT, and AS2. The FTP and File System connectors provide access to files and folders online and on-premises. When connecting less common applications, you have the ability to create custom connectors within Azure.

While the core services above only deal with application integration, Azure also provides data integration capabilities. This is required if your application needs to store unstructured data, for example, or include custom code for specialised data transformations.

To achieve these, you simply connect the Azure iPaaS to a service such as Azure Data Lake Store or Azure Functions. To work with unstructured big data in a traditional extract, transform, load (ETL) process, you should use Azure Data Factory.

Below are a few of the benefits our clients have seen from Azure-based integration solutions.

• Consumption-based pricing: With Azure, you pay for only what you use. If you have an Office 365 connector that’s triggered when a file is modified, for example, you only pay for when that trigger occurs. This makes it easy to start with a small budget and ramp up as your business needs expand.
• Test for free: Because you only pay for live consumption, your developers can build and test integrations in Azure without paying a penny.
• Little coding required: Azure services are low-code, meaning you create integrations with a drag-and-drop interface. This speeds up development and mitigates the need for lengthy testing.
• Maintenance included: Microsoft takes care of all the computing infrastructure, such as scalability and virtual machines. It would be much more expensive to retain your own IT maintenance team.
• Professional security: Microsoft has a team of 3,500 cyber security experts protecting Azure from global threats, so your integrations are in safe hands.
• Environmental transparency: Those with environmental targets can use Microsoft Sustainability Calculator to calculate the impact of Azure services.

Given the over 300 connectors available, virtually any integration is achievable with Azure iPaaS. Our digital integration team has used Azure to connect systems such as SAP, Excel, Power BI, SQL Server, and Oracle HCM Cloud. A few of the business solutions we’ve achieved with Azure include:

• providing field workers with up-to-date stock inventory information
• enabling customers around the world to track their orders online
• unifying disparate HR, payroll, and pensions data into a single HR platform
• automating the transfer of warranty claims data into a central ERP

For a detailed understanding of what we can achieve with Azure integration, read our Tullis Russell Azure integration case study.

Boomi is one of the most highly-popular iPaaS, having been a leader in Gartner’s Enterprise iPaaS Magic Quadrant for many years. Boomi is an all-in-one integration platform consisting of five capabilities:

• integrating applications and data across the cloud and on-premises
• synchronising and enriching trusted data with master data management
• designing, securing, and scaling APIs with API management
• providing secure integration with partners through B2B/EDI management
• automating workflows and developing applications with low-code tools

Your level of access to these components depends on your chosen Boomi edition (Professional, Professional Plus, Enterprise, or Enterprise Plus).

Boomi offers two types of connector: application connectors, which connect to specific software, and technology connectors, which use standard data formats and drivers.

All in all, there are over 100 standard application connectors for Microsoft, SAP, Amazon, Oracle, Google, Salesforce, Workday, Sage, Jira, Quickbooks, and more. Combined with the technology connectors, it’s possible to connect almost any cloud or on-premises data and applications with Boomi.

Below are a few reasons why Boomi is the platform of choice for many of our clients.

• High customer satisfaction: Boomi has long been considered an iPaaS leader, and has a customer renewal rate of 97 percent.
• Established community: With over 10,000 customers globally, Boomi’s platform provides intelligent recommendations crowd-sourced from its large development community.
• Connection-based pricing: You only pay for the initial licence and the number of unique connections deployed. There is no additional charge for the number of application or technology connectors used in each connection.
• Flexible billing: Boomi users can choose between monthly or annual billing, to suit their financial preferences.
• Low-code development: An intuitive interface, with pre-made templates for the most common scenarios, allows you to create integrations in a fraction of the usual time.
• Frequent updates: Boomi updates its iPaaS with the latest features on a monthly basis, freeing up your IT team to focus on delivery.

Boomi’s connectors provide near-total flexibility for application and data integration. On top of the branded connectors, Boomi successfully connects to hundreds more applications via its standards-based technology connectors.

In our position as a Boomi Advanced Partner, we have achieved the following solutions with Boomi:

• eliminating manual data entry between sales, finance, and education software
• connecting a global payment platform with legacy databases through API-led connectivity
• integrating 22 disparate applications and databases for a national delivery company
• enabling targeted marketing by linking a travel booking system to a marketing platform

To learn more about what Boomi can achieve, take a look at our Boomi case study.

Since March 2020, business leaders have been pushing for digital transformation in almost every industry. In just a few short years we’ve seen decades worth of progress be delivered.

This progression is showing no signs of stopping; 2022 was the year of the metaverse, and 2023 is the year of artificial intelligence. SaaS companies focused on both businesses and consumers have been launching their own tools powered by AI with the intention of letting users focus on tasks which truly matter; creation and innovation.

With that in mind, it’s of no surprise that Boomi, a BI and automation leader, has launched their own generative AI tool to connect and integration applications, data, process, people, and more.

But why is Boomi AI causing such ripples?

Design connections

With the help of Boomi AI, you can design unique integration processes, application programming interfaces, and data models complete with best practices gathered from millions of success stories.

Optimise your operations

With Boomi AI’s automated insights, users have the ability to solve complicated issues, facilitate predictive maintenance, automate updates, and more.

Orchestrate new experiences

Boomi AI can interpret intent behind desired business outcomes and organise processes across several applications. Enhancing decision-making, removing mundane tasks, and improving employee engagement while providing audit history and prompts to help confirm intent so that decisions and outcomes are always explainable, encouraging synergy between IT and employee.

Modernise and thrive with Boomi AI

Organisations need to adopt more powerful tools in order to not just survive…but thrive. AI presents a new era of opportunity for all businesses looking to improve strategy management and plan for success.

SAP S/4HANA is a leading, modern ERP system used by many organisations around the world. The S/4HANA platform is subscription-based, efficient at multi-tasking, able to automate many processes, and is easily accessed through multiple channels.

As you may already know, SAP ERP Central Component (SAP ECC) support is due to cease in 2027. SAP users will be planning to upgrade to SAP S/4HANA very soon to ensure migration is seamless and painless.

For companies, data continuity will be important when migrating to SAP S/4HANA from SAP ECC, SAP R/3, or from a non-SAP ERP system. An iPaaS that natively works with SAP will be a useful tool. This is where Boomi aXis comes in.

What is Boomi aXis?

Boomi aXis brings enterprise-level, cloud-native iPaas to SAP customers. As the Boomi AtomSphere platform is low-code, teams will be able to build integrations much quicker than usual, at a lower cost. The Boomi SAP connector, aXis, is designed to be easy to use when unlocking SAP and non-SAP data.

Boomi aXis for SAP offers a low-ABAP code approach, event driven architectures (EDA), and the ability to expose custom SAP objects as RESTful API services. The advanced Boomi to SAP connector differs from other iPaaS solutions that integrate through SAP’s proprietary JCo middleware layer as it enables native integration with SAP ABAP stack. This results in lower development costs and more time savings by leveraging SAP’s security and event logic.

Benefits of Boomi aXis

• Officially SAP certified – Boomi holds the SAP certifications required for integration with SAP NetWeaver and SAP S/4HANA.
• Cut down on wasted time – Less ABAP Code results in simpler, faster, and easier to maintain integration and data pipelines
• No need for ABAP developers – traditionally expensive and difficult to find, the low-code platform helps avoid ABAP development
• Extract business data – easily populate external databases with your critical business data for self-service analytics and AI
• SAP ECC and SAP S/4HANA – two systems can co-exist and reduce the risk of phased business process cut-over and data synchronisation
• Employ EDA-driven implementation – enable distributed applications with event driven integration to leverage your digital ecosystem investments
• Faster time-to-market and migration to S/4HANA – Eliminate the need for ABAP coding, while reusing legacy custom logic for faster migration

Read more about the features and prerequisites over on Boomi’s documentation page.

The Boomi cloud migration process involves moving a company’s entire digital ecosystem from one cloud to another. This ecosystem is filled with all the essential data a business needs to thrive – think databases, applications, and services that are vital to day to day operations.

This is why, if you’re thinking of starting a cloud migration, you will want to be strategic about it.

By creating a cloud migration strategy, you’re establishing the process by which you execute the movement of critical business functions. Taking a data focused approach to cloud migration will maintain data integrity and accessibility, and also help you optimise your infrastructure to meet your business goals.

Define your cloud migration goals

Just like most things in life, knowing where you’re going is the most important part of the journey. So what’s driving your need to migrate? What business needs and goals are you trying to fulfil?

Above all else, make sure your goals are viable. Studies have shown that most cloud migration projects either don’t achieve the desired results or take far longer than expected. You may find you need to break your migration down into more manageable chunks.

Create a cloud architecture to meet your needs

You may find that the best solution combines cloud migration with other data services, such as data warehousing. Working with cloud migration specialists guarantees a better end solution – you map out your needs, and they map out the perfect structure.

Is it time to consider a multi-cloud strategy?

Some businesses benefit from using a multi-cloud strategy. Reasons to consider moving your data to more than one cloud service include:

• Different vendors have different applications and capabilities which might meet your business need.
• Other vendors might be able to provide lower costs
• Some vendors are better suited for handling high risk data than others
• Keeping data across several clouds can mitigate the impact of cloud downtime or security risks.

Spring clean your data

Before starting your cloud migration journey, make sure to remove discrepancies and duplicates in your data. Otherwise cloud migration will be more difficult, the monthly costs for storage can be higher.

Low-code platforms

Cloud migration requires a certain amount of one time coding. Boomi Integration platform as a service (iPaaS) is a low/no code option that reduces the burden on your IT department and allows your team to make changes daily, by themselves.

Boomi Cloud Migration: 7 strategies worth trying

Rehost

Otherwise known as the “lift and shift”. Rehosting is all about moving a direct copy of an organisation’s data infrastructure directly into the cloud.

Refactor

A step above rehosting. known as the “lift tinker and shift”. It’s all about moving a direct copy of an organisations data infrastructure directly into the cloud.

Revise

This method involves making architecture changes to a system before migrating it to the cloud. Businesses tend to opt for this when they need to optimise cloud services.

Rebuild

This is a ground-up approach to rebuilding data architecture. It allows you to take complete control.

Replace

Replacing involves scrapping the existing architecture and migrating to a prebuilt architecture.

Repurchase

The least complicated technique… just buying a new solution.

Replatform

If your primary goal is to improve data management without any other significant changes, replatforming might be the best strategy for you. It involves tinkering with your existing platform and creating a better way of working.

If your initial discovery phase and analysis show that now is not the time to conduct your migration to the cloud, it’s perfectly fine to hit pause and wait until there’s a valid reason to make the move.

Having collaborated for over a decade, Boomi and SuccessFactors are practically made for each other. The developer of Boomi’s SuccessFactors connector, Dave Hock, spent eight years at SuccessFactors before moving to Boomi. So it’s no exaggeration to say that Boomi’s speed, reliability, and cost-effectiveness with SuccessFactors are unmatched.

However, there are some key precepts to follow if you want to make sure that the low cost of ownership materialises for your business. As a leading Boomi Advanced Implementation Partner, we want to share these insights from our Boomi SuccessFactors integration projects.

1. Train your Boomi developers

Even experienced developers will benefit from learning how to make the most of Boomi’s special features. Conversely, a lack of training will drive up the cost of ownership across complex SuccessFactors integrations. The power and flexibility of Boomi can be used poorly, mitigating the benefits you would normally experience. Getting each member of your team trained up as a Boomi Professional Developer will pay off with better Boomi SuccessFactors integration results.

2. Govern Boomi effectively

Effective governance is essential to ensuring reliability and keeping Boomi’s cost of ownership low. As Boomi consultants, we will walk you through these processes to ensure everything is crystal clear. The major factors for keeping maintenance effort to a minimum are as follows:

• keeping integration flows clean, and avoiding over-complicated “spaghetti” processes
• planning processes and sub-processes to be intuitive and well-organised
• labelling the steps of processes clearly to describe their function
• placing comprehensive descriptions at the top of each process

Our Boomi experts are on-hand to assist with each of these points, as well as providing technical expertise as needed.

3. Build it the Boomi way

Boomi is designed to be low-code, with custom scripting there as an option to augment existing processes. Problems typically arise when inexperienced Boomi consultants start adding extensive scripting to Boomi projects. It’s much faster and more maintainable to learn “the Boomi way” and stick to that as much as possible. Boomi provides a graphical, easy-to-learn process that doesn’t require deep knowledge of any programming language.

Plan to succeed with Boomi and SuccessFactors

In case any doubt remains, let’s run through the core features of Boomi SuccessFactors integration:

• cloud-native architecture
• a fast and powerful connector SDK
• easy-to-use, built-in version controlSuccessFactors API connector for Boomi
• intelligent integration suggestions based on 30 terabytes of anonymous metadata
• a huge selection of product-specific connectors for ERP, CRM, payroll, benefits, and more
• a single development environment across integration, data management, and workflow automation

The benefit is fast and intuitive integration of SuccessFactors with any new cloud, legacy on-premises, or partner-run applications.

Does your organisation need the benefits of fast and simple integration?

Advantages in cost, productivity, and security make Microsoft Azure the cloud of choice for both large enterprises and midsize businesses. When adopting or migrating to Azure, you want to experience those benefits from day one.

That’s why your procedure for integrating Azure with pre-existing systems should be planned well in advance. Of course, you could take the time-intensive and expensive route of custom coding your integrations. But there is a faster, more flexible, and cost-effective alternative in the form of Dell Boomi Azure integration.

As both a Boomi Advanced Implementation Partner and a Microsoft Partner providing services for Azure, we are uniquely placed to guide your Azure integration with Boomi.

Here are the five most compelling benefits our customers have seen from their Boomi-Azure integration projects.

1. Cut integration cost and time

Boomi is a low-code, cloud-based integration platform that mitigates the cost and developer time of traditional middleware and custom coding. Our customers tell us that Boomi integrations are two to five times faster than custom coding or legacy middleware. And because Boomi is cloud-native, your team spends absolutely no time on upgrades, patches, hotfixes, regression testing, horizontal scaling, and so on.

2. Simplify usage with a cloud platform

Being a pure cloud iPaaS, Boomi has no hardware to install or maintain. All upgrades are automatic, meaning you get the latest features and fixes as soon as they’re released.

By leaving all the maintenance to Boomi, the only costs you need consider are predictable and usage-based. If you need to scale up, Boomi has the capacity. Or if your needs were less than expected, you’ll pay only for that. And Boomi’s single-instance, multi-tenant architecture is accessible from any browser—no special equipment required.

3. Use Azure connectors for a quick start

Boomi’s pre-made application connectors enable you to connect Azure to over 1,500 unique endpoints. Boomi platform includes connectors for Azure services including:

• Azure Blob Storage
• Azure SQL Data Warehouse
• Azure Service Bus
• MS Dynamics AX
• MS Dynamics CRM
• MS Dynamics GP
• MS SQL Server BCP
• Dynamics 365 (GP and CRM)

Using Boomi connectors, you can quickly integrate your enterprise applications with Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft SharePoint, Microsoft Cortana Intelligence Suite, and Microsoft Dynamics 365.

4. Increase productivity with intuitive tools

The simple Boomi drag-and-drop interface allows you to integrate Azure services to any number of cloud and on-premises systems without the complexity of code. It takes weeks, not months, to train a developer to build Boomi integrations. That makes your integration team more agile and resilient—if a developer leaves, it isn’t the end of the world.

5. Find the best strategy for your business

For all these reasons, Dell Boomi Azure integration is the best way to achieve fast returns on your Microsoft investment. The flexibility of these two platforms together—Azure and Boomi—offers rewards for businesses of all shapes and sizes.

To get the most out of both, it is advised to seek a consultancy that specialises in the Boomi-Azure crossover. As the Egypt , middle east’s leading Boomi Advanced Implementation Partner and an experienced Microsoft Partner for Azure, egforit Software is the IT consultancy of choice for this particular niche.