Glossary of Terms

Application Programming Interface (API) - programming instructions and standards for accessing web-based software applications or web tools.

Boomi Atom - a lightweight, dynamic runtime engine. Once an integration process have been deployed to the atom, the atom will contain all the components required to execute processes from beginning to end, including connectors, transformation rules, decision handling, and processing logic.

Boomi Atomsphere - allows for the integration of data directly from the web without installing software or hardware. Users can securely build, deploy and manage integrations using only a web browser. Boomi Atomsphere handles any combinations of software-as-a-service (SaaS) and on-premise application integration.

Connector - used in Boomi, connectors get data into and send data out of processes. They enable communication with the applications or data sources between which data needs to move, or in other words, the "end points" of the process. If working with a customer who wants to load a file from the SFTP site, the SFTP Connector would be used. To load data from a data load process in Boomi into Planful, a Web Services Connector would be used.

Web Services - a method of communication between two electronic devices over the web. Allows different applications from different sources to communicate with each other without time-consuming custom coding, and because all communication is in XML, web services are not tied to any one operating system or programming language.