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Dell Boomi Adds COO and CMO to Executive Team

With the appointments of Dell Boomi’s first chief operating officer (COO) Christopher Port, and first chief marketing officer (CMO) Amede Hungerford, Dell Boomi reinforces its commitment to support growing global demand for its cloud-based solutions for integration platform as a service (iPaaS) market, API management, and master data management (MDM).

“With CIOs turning to us at record rates to solve their biggest hybrid IT challenges, we need the very best leaders to maintain our industry-leading customer success and retention,” said Chris McNabb, general manager at Dell Boomi. “By hiring Chris and Amede, we’re providing the leadership necessary to continue delivering excellent products, services and support. As we scale globally, Chris and Amede will ensure that Dell Boomi will continue its commitment to providing our customers the maximum value out of their purchase so they can better serve their own customers.”

Christopher Port has been a long-time key contributor at Dell, most recently serving as GM within Dell Software’s systems management group. Previously, he was director within Dell’s corporate
strategy group where he led the acquisition of Dell Boomi in 2011 and was responsible for Dell Boomi’s post-acquisition integration and growth. In his new role as Dell Boomi’s first COO, Port looks forward to helping Dell Boomi through its next phase of growth and positioning the company as the key enabler of a cloud-based world.

Amede brings more than two decades of experience in driving growth and innovation strategies across the enterprise market to his new position as Dell Boomi’s first CMO. Prior to joining Dell Boomi, Amede served as NetSuite’s vice president of global marketing where he was instrumental in the Cloud ERP company’s explosive growth. He has also held senior marketing leadership positions at Intuit, FICO, Sybase, and Hewlett Packard Company. Having come from another fast-growing SaaS leader, Amede is ready to
similarly scale Dell Boomi’s marketing team and create high-impact marketing programs that convey Dell Boomi’s story globally.

For details, read the press release.

New Dell Boomi Training Classes: Integration Architect II, Integration Administrator II, Master Data Management I

In response to customer feedback, Dell Boomi’s Education Services is introducing three new training classes launching in April and May: Integration Architect II, Integration Administrator II, and Master Data Management I.

Build on your knowledge with Integration Architect II

Launches April 21-22: Designed for integration architects and experienced developers, the Dell Boomi Integration Architect II class provides a deeper understanding of the AtomSphere platform’s behavior and best practices for designing and implementing robust, scalable solutions. You’ll learn to:

• Manage the development life cycle and environment
• Understand runtime mechanics considerations and their impact on implementation performance and success
• Understand Dell Boomi security concepts and develop an effective test strategy for your organization—and more!

Register for Integration Architect II training.

Expand your oversight with Integration Administrator II

Launches April 25-26: If you’re responsible for administration or management and not development of a Dell Boomi AtomSphere integration, and you want to increase your skills, this class is for you. You’ll learn to:

• Select the best runtime integration option for your organization
• Install local runtimes on both a Windows and Linux environment
• Configure user accounts within AtomSphere—and more!

Register for Integration Administrator II training.

Learn to be a Dell Boomi MDM I Developer

Launches May 2-3: Designed specifically for application architects, developers, administrators and data stewards, focusing on the Dell Boomi Master Data Management (MDM) product. You’ll build solutions that address common data management and governance use cases, learn Dell Boomi MDM best practices and establish a solid foundation for your integration knowledge so you can:

• Gain a high-level understanding of MDM technology and features
• Define Golden Record requirements using core MDM concepts
• Deploy your models into the MDM repository and identify which source systems will interact with them—and more!

Register for Master Data Management I training.

Other Training and Certification

Dell Boomi offers a variety of training courses, including virtual instructor-led classes, classroom training at Dell Boomi’s training facility or on-site at client locations, View the complete listing of all of Dell Boomi training classes.

Want to test your Dell Boomi knowledge? Get certified? Read more about our certification exams.

Dell Boomi Customer Genesys to Present at the Gartner Enterprise Information & MDM Summit in London

Genesys, a leading provider of omnichannel, customer experience, and contact center solutions, used a transformational cloud-first strategy to support its end-to-end integration and data management requirements. Attendees of the Gartner Enterprise Information and Master Data Management Summit in London on March 2 will have the opportunity to learn first-hand how Genesys accomplished that transformation, directly from Kris Krishan, VP of Corporate Applications for Genesys.

Make time to attend this session to hear how Genesys:

• gained up-to-date information company wide
• reinvented the economics of integration, governance and MDM
• extended its cloud ERP and CRM as a business-critical information repository

In his presentation, Kris will share how Genesys moved application architecture, integration and MDM to the cloud by working with Dell Boomi AtomSphere integration platform as a service (iPaaS) and Master Data Management solutions.

Session details:

• Title: Genesys Takes Application Architecture, Integration and MDM to the Cloud
• Date: Wednesday, March 2
• Time: 12:15 p.m. - 12:45 p.m.
• Location: Arora 17, Level 1, Intercontinental Hotel – The O2, London, UK

Visit the Dell Boomi stand

During the conference, you’ll have the opportunity to visit the Dell Boomi stand, (number PL1), and have your cloud-based master data management questions answered by Dell Boomi experts. 

In the evening on March 2, Dell Boomi will host a networking event at our stand, with entertainment provided by a magician and mind reader. Challenge the magician in some games for a chance to win a Tile gadget (1 of 50, while supplies last)!

Dell Boomi is proud to be a Platinum sponsor of the Gartner Enterprise Information and MDM Summit, so be sure to visit our stand to learn more about cloud-based MDM and integration.

Automating Data Integration, Quality & Governance: The Genesys Use Case [video]

A leading provider of multi-channel customer experience and contact center solutions, Genesys adopted a cloud-first IT strategy to support its end-to-end integration and data management requirements. Kris Krishan, vice president of Enterprise Applications at Genesys and a Salesforce.com customer, recently shared how the company was able to rapidly and cost-effectively ensure up-to-date information, as well as data quality and governance, across its organization using application integration and master data management.

 

In this video from Dreamforce ’15, Krishan discusses the Genesys transformation in detail, providing a clear road map for achieving business objectives, including:

• The integration of data from multiple systems (both on-premises and SaaS)
• Implementation of master data management (MDM) for both the customer and product domains
• Centralization of golden records using match and merge
• Consolidation and synchronization to create a single source of truth for consumption by users and systems

The Genesys use case involves multiple applications to support its global business, including Salesforce.com, Force.com, NetSuite, SAP and ADP, to name a few.

Find out how Genesys transformed its business with integration and MDM, and how your company can, too. Watch the video now.

On-demand Webinar: Mastering Your Cloud MDM Implementation

There are few challenges as daunting as consolidating, cleansing and synchronizing your data across multiple domains and data sources.

As your organization manages more information—from even more cloud and on-premises sources—it becomes increasingly important to ensure consistency and accuracy, without straining your already-limited resources.

In our new on-demand webinar, you’ll hear from Geoff Bockelmann, Product Manager for MDM at Dell Boomi, who’ll show you how cloud Master Data Management (MDM) can help your organization ensure data accuracy and consistency, as well as improve performance and reduce costs.

You’ll learn how to:

• Adopt cloud MDM deployment in a hybrid IT environment
• Model, match, synchronize, cleanse and enrich master data across domains
• Scale your MDM to accommodate growth in data varieties, business applications and user demands
• Implement comprehensive data-governance controls

Watch the webinar now.

For more information on Dell Boomi Master Data Management, visit our website, or download our MDM datasheet.

MDM Summit: CROSSMARK to Discuss How Cloud MDM Drives Integration, Execution and Analytics

If you’re attending the MDM & Data Governance Summit in New York City, you’ll have the opportunity to hear from Rob Saker, Chief Data Officer at CROSSMARK, who’ll discuss how the company built master data solutions with Salesforce and Dell Boomi Master Data Management (MDM). Saker’s case study session, “Applying Cloud MDM to Drive Integration, Execution & Analytics,” is scheduled for Monday, October 5 at 3:45 p.m.

During the presentation, you’ll hear how CROSSMARK built master data solutions with Salesforce and Dell Boomi MDM that are driving better integration and more precise execution, while enabling the next generation of analytic capabilities. Among the topics that will be addressed are:

• Rationalizing the infrastructure cost implications & benefits of implementing a production cloud-based MDM solution
• Applying integration platform as a service (iPaaS) services to provide cloud and on-premises data management
• Leveraging a multi-tenant architecture to enable enterprise scalability and elasticity.

Register now to attend MDM & Data Governance.

While at the conference, be sure to stop by the Dell Boomi booth (#120) to learn more about how Dell Boomi Master Data Management can help your organization.