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Boomi, an on-demand integration vendor, announced that it has partnered with Zuora to enable Software-as-a-Service integration for Zuora's on-demand billing application with financial and customer relationship management (CRM) applications.

 

Zuora is embedding the Boomi On Demand offering to provide its on-demand Z-Billing users with what company officials describe as "the ability to integrate with any SaaS (News - Alert) or on-premise application directly from the Web without the burden of installing integration software packages or hardware appliances."

 

Using Boomi On Demand, Zuora's customers can integrate Z-Billing with QuickBooks, for example, by selecting the prepackaged integration from a menu, and the integration is complete — no data mapping, coding, software downloads or hardware purchases. If the end customer wants to integrate Z-Billing with other applications, the integrations are built, deployed and managed by Boomi On Demand using only a browser.

 

Tien Tzuo, Zuora's CEO, said the subscription model is advancing in many industries and the Zuora team "has been working in this paradigm since its inception."

 

In May Boomi announced a partnership with CRM manager to help integrate Salesforce.com (News - Alert) implementation projects.

 

CRM manager sells implementation and consulting services for Salesforce.com clients. It's using Boomi On Demand for integrating Salesforce.com with other software-as-a-service and on-premise applications.

 

In addition, CRM manager is using Boomi On Demand to integrate its own financial applications with Salesforce.com. Boomi On Demand is designed to remove the integration barrier to SaaS adoption. It's an SaaS application itself, and integrations are built and deployed on the Web with drag-and-drop.

 

Also in May Boomi and StrikeIron, which sells products for delivering data over the Internet, announced a partnership "focused on driving Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) adoption by enabling integration of StrikeIron's Marketplace Web services into Boomi On Demand," Boomi officials said.

 

Boomi users can now use business intelligence, CRM, e-commerce and financial products that StrikeIron offers with no additional coding required.