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Dell today unveiled the Summer 12 Release of Boomi , the company's cloud integration service. Along with security andETL enhancements, Dell is now offering a testing service calledBoomi Assure that automatically tests a customer's integrationprocesses each time Boomi is updated to ensure they still functionproperly. Boomi enables users to design cloud-based integration processes,drawing on various data and services, using a library of connectorsand maps. Companies can then deploy those processes -- called Atoms-- as an SaaS or a PaaS, either as part of a broader cloudintegration or as a firewall-protected on-premise application. According to Dell Boomi general manager Rick Nucci, Dell isscheduled to roll out major updates to Boomi four times per year,and that frequent update cycle was the impetus for the Boomi Assurefeature. Rather than foisting a new version on customers and makingthem reactively perform necessary compatibility tests, Dell isinviting customers to submit their integrations to be testedautomatically. Those integrations are then retested each time a newversion of Boomi emerges. "If you think about the on-premise days, the end customer is takingon the burden of installing whatever software they might bemanaging and doing the upgrades and testing themselves," Nuccisaid. "In the cloud world, the vendor, the cloud provider, does theupgrade, not the end customer." As such, he said, it makes sense for the provider -- in this case,Dell -- to perform the testing to ensure that customer's existingintegration configurations still work. Beyond the Boomi Assure feature, Summer 12 Release includes anumber of ETL (extract, transform, and load) enhancements. Amongthem is a document cache feature that lets users join multiple datasource in a single integration process and keep it in-memory forfaster access. Dell also has added a bulk copy feature forefficiently loading large volumes of data into a database. Further,Dell added support for Hadoop , giving companies a way to run big data analytics on their Boomi integrations. In an effort to boost Boomi's security pedigree, Dell introducednew types of roles to limit which users can have full access tosensitive data. What's more, Dell has added SAML-based singlesign-on and centralized password-policy management. Finally, Boomi Summer 12 Release includes features aimed at SOAworkers. Among them, users can now reserve in advance cloudresources for real-time data transfer. The benefit, according toDell, is that it helps service providers deliver more predictableperformance levels. This story, " Latest Dell Boomi release automates cloud integration testing ," was originally published at InfoWorld.com . Get the first word on what the important tech news really meanswith the InfoWorld Tech Watch blog . For the latest developments in business technology news, follow InfoWorld.com on Twitter . We are high quality suppliers, our products such as China Handheld RFID Readers , Rugged Industrial Computer Manufacturer for oversee buyer. To know more, please visits Mobile POS Terminals.
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