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October 6, 2016 Cesar Cordero
Cloud Services, Custom Software Development, Dell Boomi, Enterprise &
System Integration, IT Strategy, T-Connect

Dell Boomi provides the concept and implementation of extensions

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to allow developers and administrators to have distinct values for
di erent environments without having to use multiple connectors of
the same type.
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As an example in a given scenario where a Dell Boomi Process uses a
disk connector to read a le but the le location changes from
environment to environment.
Categories
EG:
1. Test Server le folder location: C:\TEST\Inbound BizTalk
2. QA Server le folder location: C:\QA\Inbound
Cloud Services
3. Production Server le folder location: C:\PROD\Inbound
Company
If there is no good understanding of extensions by the
implementation team they may have a separate connector for each Custom Software
environment and deploy each connection thereby consuming a Development
license in your Dell Boomi AtomSphere. This will most likely look Data & Analytics
something like this:
Dell Boomi

Ecommerce

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Enterprise &
System Integration

Government
Solutions

Healthcare

IT Strategy
To be very clear: this approach does work but will consume three
Mobile Solutions
connections/licenses and does not leverage the best practice of the
usage of extensions for variable runtime-set environment O ce 365 Licensing
con guration parameters. & Support

The disk speci c le folder con gurations would be contained in each Portals &
Disk Connection as shown below here: Collaboration

SQL Server 2016

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When using the best practices approach for Dell Boomi the disk
connections should only be created once generically and might look
something like this in the Atoms artifact explorer:

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The point being there only needs to be one disk Connection that is
con gurable in the process as Extended with con guration values
assigned at the time of deployment or at any time after deployment
during run time.

Lets create a very simple process that uses our Disk1 Connector and
demonstrate how to con gure the same disk connector for three
environments.

The process might look something like this:

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Dell Boomi AtomSphere

The Dell Boomi AtomSphere integration platform is a shared-

everything, multi-tenant platform that supports cloud-to-cloud, SaaS-
to-SaaS, cloud-to-on-premises, on-premises-to-on-premises and B2B
integration. Boomi AtomSphere supports real-time integration and
elastically scales to meet high-volume needs in mobile, batch (ETL)
and EDI environments. Easily accessed via a browser, it delivers an
impressive range of integration, master data management (MDM)
and platform extension capabilities.

Tallan IntegrationSolutions forDell BoomiTallan is a certi ed Dell

Boomi Partner specializing in iPaaS platform integrations. Leverage
Tallans vast integration experience for your AtomSphere
platformneeds. Our certi edarchitects and developers provide the

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expertise, best practices, and guidance to deliver a successful

integration solution.

We hope this blogwill help you in your use of AtomSphere. If you

have any questions or comments, or need assistance with any
Integrations or development questions, please contact us at
integrations@tallan.com.

Thank you,

The Tallan Integrations Team

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