Boomi, a provider of on-demand integration technology and developer of the AtomSphere cloud integration solution, announced the release of AtomSphere Fall 11, the newest version of Dell Boomi's cloud integration technology. The new version is powered by the AtomSphere user community to reduce the complexity of cloud and software-as-a-service (SaaS) application integration. Dell Boomi's newest offering has been designed with capabilities which include: improved intelligence for recommending customer-validated data maps and functions, a series of proactive customer communication services, integrated functionality for business protocols and enhanced functionality for keeping track of integrations and service uptime. Medium and large enterprise customers leveraging the AtomSphere Fall 11 will benefit from ease in migration to cloud computing as the solution allows integration through customer dictated pathways as well as monitoring and maintenance tools.

AtomSphere easily connects new applications and existing applications even amid complex data connections. While AtomSphere's multi-tenant design makes it easy for Boomi to provide updates to customers faster it simultaneously supports reductions in time and costs for application and data integration.

• New Features Enhance Productivity and Collaboration Between Business and IT
• Accommodates Big Data Growth, Globalization and Business Analytics
• Wizards Simplify Integrations for Web Services, XML, Databases and Flat Files

Jitterbit, a leading provider of powerful, flexible and easy-to-use application and data integration solutions, today announced the availability of Jitterbit 4.0, the company's award-winning software for on-premise and cloud integration. Jitterbit 4.0 was designed to facilitate IT and Business collaboration, simplify cloud integration and accommodate big data requirements.

Connecting cloud, SaaS and other internal applications is a business and IT priority. Jitterbit offers a simplified approach to integration for IT and business analysts, offering easy, out-of-the-box integration to hundreds of enterprise applications and an intuitive drag-and-drop design. Its unique "no-coding" approach allows users to graphically configure and manage their cloud integration and on-premise application and data integration projects.

Integration Service Provides Orchestration Across Enterprise and Cloud, Solves Emerging "Cloud Silo" Problem

MuleSoft, the provider of web middleware built on leading open source projects Mule ESB and Apache Tomcat, has announced a private beta program for a new integration platform as a service (iPaaS) called Mule iON. Mule iON enables developers and application teams to integrate and orchestrate applications and services seamlessly across the enterprise and cloud. It also provides IT operations with the same runtime visibility and control they would expect from an on-premise integration platform, all without the need to install or manage middleware or hardware infrastructure.

Jitterbit, a leading provider of simplified, powerful, and flexible application and data integration solutions, today announced that Petzl, a manufacturer of climbing and outdoor sporting equipment, depends on Jitterbit for seamless integration between its on-premise and cloud business systems. The integration platform allows Petzl to be more efficient and effective across the board from the sales team to the IT department.

For more than 40 years, Petzl has developed innovative tools and techniques used by mountain climbers and cave explorers around the globe. Recently, Petzl implemented a number of new technologies to help streamline its processes and to help it keep up with increased customer demand. First, Petzl launched its innovative B2B customer facing Web portal, using Jitterbit to seamlessly integrate with its backend IBM ERP system. Jitterbit proved so powerful and easy to use that Petzl turned to the software again when they adopted Salesforce to optimize its sales processes. Using Jitterbit for its Salesforce integration, Petzl was able to provide its sales team a "one stop" view of all information related to a customer account including orders, inventory and payment status.

Informatica Corporation, the world's number one independent leader in data integration software, today launched Informatica Cloud Express, the first cloud data integration service with usage-based pricing.

Informatica Cloud Express pricing will start at only $99 US per month, opening the door for organizations of all sizes to leverage the industry-leading data integration capabilities of Informatica Cloud – voted the Best Integration Application of 2009 and 2008 by salesforce.com customers on AppExchange. Delivered as a true multi-tenant cloud service, Informatica Cloud Express will empower Salesforce administrators and operations staff to create, schedule and automate bi-directional cloud-to-on premise integration tasks without coding and without requiring a hardware appliance.

A blog post from Cloud Integration provider Boomi's co-founder Rick Nucci on this topic came across the tweet stream this morning and it really hit home.

Here's what Rick had to say about it:

It is surprising to still see articles like this where people question the fundamentals of SaaS, I mean even Lawson is now talking about a cloud edition, despite their CEO publicly proclaiming SaaS's death by August 2010 a few years back.  But what Lawson and others are doing, known as "cloud washing", helps me understand why people question the value of SaaS.

Informatica Corporation the world’s number one independent provider of enterprise data integration software, today announced the general availability of the Informatica Cloud Summer 2010 release. The new release significantly broadens the company’s award winning data integration Cloud Services with pre-packaged plug-ins that enable data quality and business-to-business (B2B) data transformation in the cloud.

With Informatica Cloud Summer 2010, customers and partners can also build and share custom plug-ins through the Informatica Marketplace and take advantage of pre-packaged connectivity for applications such as Salesforce, Oracle, SAP, Microsoft, Xactly, Right 90, Big Machines and numerous others.

A new Forrester Research survey of enterprise software buyers sheds light on SaaS's blind spots: troubling security concerns, hidden integration costs, and data migration challenges.

Just when you thought it was safe to jump into the SaaS waters, a new survey finds that IT and enterprise software decision-makers don't feel totally comfortable with SaaS—namely those nagging security, integration and data migration concerns.

That's the thrust of a new Forrester Research report: "As Adoption Grows, Vendor Managers Can Help Business Users Succeed with SaaS Deployments," by principal analyst Liz Hebert. (The results are from Forrester's Enterprise and SMB Software Survey, North America And Europe, Q4 2009; the data was fielded to 2,165 IT executives and technology decision-makers located in Canada, France, Germany, United Kingdom and United States.)