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Boomi to Simplify Legacy Application Integration!

07/06/2020

OpenLegacy, an API integration platform, announced on Monday (June 29, 2020) its alliance with Boomi, an arm of Dell Technologies that provides organizations with access to an integration platform-as-service (iPaaS).

Legacy’s core platform enables IT teams to convert legacy application processes into microservices that can be involved by tools such as Boomi using an API. Rather than merely providing access to an application, OpenLegacy is designed to capture all the business logic, metadata and associated middleware associated with a specific business process executing on an IMS or AS/400 platform.

The Boomi alliance extends that capability to include processes created by either citizen integrators or developers via the Boomi cloud service. That’s critical because most mission-critical applications in the enterprise still run on legacy platforms. Rather than having to rewrite those applications from scratch, OpenLegacy makes those applications more easily accessible to other applications and platforms via a software development kit (SDK) based on Java.

At a time when many organizations are looking to accelerate digital business transformation initiatives, being able to programmatically invoke an entire business process accelerates the rate at which those initiatives can be completed because business processes do not necessarily have to be re-engineered.

In the case of Boomi, that capability is now being extended all the way to end users to make it feasible to tap into existing business processes using a set of tools that already have been adopted by more than 11,000 organizations.

OpenLegacy is making a case for DevOps teams to think in terms of legacy business processes rather than individual applications. Historically, many organizations have relied on enterprise service bus (ESB) platforms to integrate applications. However, a DevOps team still has to manually integrate all the software components that make up a business process once application environments are connected.

In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, there is clearly a lot more interest in modernizing business processes. Many employees are working from home for the foreseeable future. Cloud services such as Boomi provide a means of enabling end users to craft workflows on their own. The challenge has always been finding a way to easily connect those workflows to transaction processing systems and other systems of record around which the business depends.

It’s unsure to what degree providing that level of access will drive a burst of business process innovation. However, DevOps teams that spend an inordinate amount of their time integrating new applications with legacy business processes might be keen to leverage an approach that promises to turn those business processes into a reusable microservice.

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