Boomi has partnered with Innotas to enable Software-as-a-Service integration for Innotas' on-demand project portfolio management products. The Boomi On Demand offering provides Innotas' PPM (News - Alert) users with the ability to integrate the Innotas product with any other SaaS or on-premise applications.

 

Integrations are built and deployed directly from the Web "without installing and maintaining software packages or hardware appliances," the Boomians said. Innotas is using Boomi On Demand to integrate its own PPM application with Salesforce.com (News - Alert).     

 

Using Boomi On Demand, Innotas' customers can integrate the PPM product with applications for human resources, help desk, finance, time management and customer relationship management, to name a few. Customers can build, deploy and manage integrations directly from the Web using only a browser.

 

"One of the biggest challenges we've faced as a SaaS (News - Alert) vendor is the perception that integrating a SaaS offering with other applications is complex and costly. Ironically, the companies most attracted to the benefits of the SaaS model -- small and mid-size businesses -- were exactly the companies most impacted by this problem," said Chad Haftorson, vice president of products at Innotas.

 

Companies can pay by connection, not for an entire integration suite or appliance, and can employ the capabilities and functionality of enterprise integration service "at a fraction of the cost of conventional integration offerings," Boomi officials said. 

 

Boomi's patent-pending technology lets any combination of SaaS and on-premise integration be accomplished directly from the Web.

 

Early this month, Boomi announced it has raised $4 million in its first institutional round of financing.

 

The investment will be used to "accelerate Boomi's go-to-market strategy" and work on the company's position in cloud-based data and application integration services, the Boomies say.

 

Boomi On Demand is an on-demand integration service that connects any combination of Software-as-a-Service and on-premise applications without the burden of installing and maintaining software packages or hardware appliances.

 

With its "connect once, integrate everywhere" approach, Boomi On Demand is pitched to major SaaS vendors and other service providers.

 

Once an application is connected to Boomi On Demand, company officials say, it has "instant interoperability with the hundreds of other SaaS and on-premise applications that Boomi supports."

 

The firm plans to open its platform to the developer community this fall with a software development kit that will allow for the creation of specialized connectors by the community to support additional applications and vertical products.