October 22, 2009 08:45 ET
Boomi Announces Integration Widget Challenge for Dreamforce '09, Salesforce.com's User and Developer Conference
Contest Will Determine "Dream Widget" to Be Built and Offered to Cloud Computing Community for Free
BERWYN, PA--(Marketwire - October 22, 2009) - Boomi (www.boomi.com), the market and technology
leader for cloud-computing integration, kicked off a contest today that
invites salesforce.com customers to contribute and vote
(http://dream.boomi.com) for their "dream widget" -- the integration they
would most like between any third-party application and Salesforce CRM.
Boomi is opening up the selection process to the salesforce.com community
to decide which integration would be the most useful in today's business
environment. Ideas may include anything from social media applications to
enterprise software. Boomi will rapidly build the most popular selection
and offer it for free to any salesforce.com customer who visits the Boomi
booth (#409) at Dreamforce 2009. The contest will run from now until Oct.
30, 2009.
"We're soliciting input from the salesforce.com community to deliver the
integration they feel will unleash the most potential from the Salesforce
CRM for their business," said Rick Nucci, Co-Founder and CTO, Boomi. "This
initiative highlights Boomi's commitment to community driven innovation,
and allows us to showcase the power of our AtomSphere platform by
delivering an out-of-the-box integration that solves a real business
problem and can be setup in minutes."
Boomi Widgets are pre-built, easy-to-use, on-demand connections between
popular business applications. The company announced the availability of
its Widgets product in late July and has since enabled its partners to
build and deliver integrations to applications including ADP, Ascent,
Coupa, Glovia, Intuit Partner Platform, Marketo, Microsoft Dynamics GP,
NetSuite, QuickBooks, Salesforce CRM, Saasu, Taleo and Zuora.
For the contest, voters can either contribute a suggested integration
widget or choose between these candidates:
-- Salesforce CRM to LinkedIn -- Augment your account data by
automatically cross-referencing your LinkedIn connections.
-- Salesforce CRM to Crunchbase -- Enrich information about your leads by
retrieving company-specified information directly from Crunchbase.
-- Salesforce CRM to WebEx -- Automatically import webinar attendees as
leads into the Sales Cloud.
Boomi has already delivered cloud-based integration that is available on
salesforce.com's AppExchange. For more information about Boomi's Salesforce
CRM integration solutions, visit: http://boomi.com/solutions/salesforce
and vote for the Dream Widget (http://dream.boomi.com) by October 30, 2009.
About the Force.com Platform and AppExchange
Force.com is the only proven enterprise platform for building and running
business applications in the cloud. The Force.com platform powers the
Salesforce CRM applications, more than 800 ISV partner applications like
those from CODA and Fujitsu, and more than 120,000 custom applications used
by salesforce.com's 63,200 customers such as Japan Post, Kaiser Permanente,
KONE and Sprint Nextel.
Applications built on the Force.com platform can be easily distributed to
the entire cloud computing community through the Force.com AppExchange
marketplace at http://www.salesforce.com/appexchange/.
About Boomi
Boomi is the market-leading provider of on-demand integration technology
and the creator of AtomSphere, the industry's first integration
platform-as-a-service. AtomSphere connects providers and consumers of SaaS
and
on-premise applications via a pure SaaS integration platform that does not
require software or appliances. ISVs and businesses alike benefit by
connecting to the industry's largest network of SaaS, PaaS, on-premise and
cloud computing environments in a seamless and fully self-service model.
Leading SaaS players such as salesforce.com, Marketo, NetSuite, Intuit,
RightNow, Taleo, and Zuora rely on AtomSphere to accelerate time to market,
increase sales, and eliminate the headaches associated with integration.
Recent Boomi awards include the SIIA CODiE for Best On-Demand Platform; the
AlwaysOn East 100; the AlwaysOn Global 250; and the JMP Securities Hot 100.
For more information about Boomi, visit www.boomi.com.