Boomi Integration & Automation in Action – Discover How We Helped Our Client Cut Manual Work by Over 70%
In our previous post Why Boomi?, we looked at what makes Boomi a leading choice among integration platforms. Now, we’re diving deeper into the first of Boomi’s four core service areas – Integration & Automation – and showing how we’ve used it in practice to deliver major process improvements for a global client.
Spoiler alert: one of our clients saved over 34,000 hours annually after implementing these capabilities.
What Is Boomi Integration & Automation?
Boomi Integration & Automation is all about connecting systems and automating workflows across your business – from cloud apps to legacy systems. It allows organizations to move away from manual data entry, reduce operational silos, and unlock real-time visibility.
The Boomi integration platform supports:
- Huge number of prebuilt connectors for popular systems like SAP, IFS, Veeva, MS Dynamics, Salesforce, Coupa, Workday, and more
- Multiple integration patterns – including B2B/EDI, pub-sub, APIs, streaming, event-driven workflows
- Visual low-code development, reusable process components, and crowdsourced mapping suggestions
- Workflow orchestration for both technical and business processes
With Boomi, integrations aren’t a bottleneck – they’re an accelerator.
📌 Here’s a quick overview of key benefits offered by Boomi Integration & Automation:
Real-World Impact: Global Pharma Company Saves 34,000+ Hours Annually
Let’s walk through a real project we delivered using Boomi Integration & Automation, for a global pharmaceutical company operating in over 50 countries.
The Challenge
The client faced mounting complexity in their master data and procurement processes, working across multiple legal entities, systems, and countries. Their landscape included:
- Different ERPs (SAP and IFS)
- Procurement tool (Coupa)
- HR systems, finance tools, and internal apps
- Over 50 systems in total requiring data alignment
Key problems included:
- No single source of truth for critical data (employees, suppliers, cost centers…)
- Manual entry across 6–11 systems for every master data object
- Decentralized procurement workflows requiring manual effort for every requisition, order, and confirmation
- Inconsistent data, delays, and constant troubleshooting
Let’s look at the numbers.
⏱ Manual Workload (Before Boomi)
- Employee data management:
- Avg. 3 minutes per system × 11 systems × 60 employees/month
- → ~396 hours annually spent manually updating employee records
- Business Partner data:
- 2 minutes × 6 systems × 40,000 records × (let’s use 1 update/year, but it’s more)
- → ~8,000 hours annually on supplier/customer data maintenance
- Procurement operations:
- Avg. 30 minutes to create/update a Purchase Requisition, PO, invoice, receipt
- 208 PRs per day × 250 workdays
- → ~26,000 hours annually in procurement admin
Total manual workload: over 34,000 hours per year.
The Solution – Powered by Boomi
With the Boomi integration platform, we designed and implemented integrations that automate all key flows:
🔁 Master Data Automation
- Defined sources of truth for each data object
- Standardized business processes for onboarding, offboarding, and updates
- Built integrations to automatically sync employee and business partner data from source systems to all consumers
- Enabled role-based provisioning, access control, and approvals using centralized employee data
🛒 Procurement Process Automation
- Automated transfer of purchase requisitions from ERP to Coupa
- Integrated HR and procurement systems to support approval chains
- Sent approved POs back from Coupa to ERP
- Connected goods receipt data from ERP back into Coupa
- Integrated OCR tools for invoice processing and automated ingestion into ERPs
- Handled unit conversions, country-specific logic, and material enrichment through dynamic mappings
The Results
With Boomi in place, the impact was immediate and measurable:
✅ 70% reduction in manual data entry time
✅ 8,000+ hours saved annually in master data management
✅ 26,000+ hours saved in procurement process handling
✅ Data consistency across all legal entities and systems
✅ Procurement cycle time significantly reduced
✅ Error rates and rework dropped sharply
✅ Users now interact with only the tools they need – Boomi takes care of the rest behind the scenes
From day-to-day operations to compliance and reporting, the company gained back valuable time, reduced operational friction, and finally got control over its data.
What’s even more important: the cost of implementing Boomi integrations is significantly lower. In most cases, it’s way more than ten times cheaper compared to the manual effort it replaces. Boomi’s no-code environment means that once your processes are clearly defined and you know what needs to be connected, integrations can be delivered quickly and efficiently, without months of development.
Why This Matters
Every growing company eventually hits the same wall: too many systems, too many processes, and too many teams working in silos. Boomi Integration & Automation isn’t just about connecting tools – it’s about enabling faster decisions, cleaner data, and scalable operations.
In the case we described above, the client saved over 34,000 hours annually by automating manual, repetitive activities.
To put that into perspective:
- That’s over 4,250 man-days per year (based on a standard 8-hour workday)
- Or the equivalent of 20 employees working full time, all year long (assuming 1,700 productive hours per employee annually when excluding vacations, holidays, sick leaves…)
- And yes – all that time was previously spent on tasks like copying data between systems, updating records manually, and troubleshooting mismatched entries
Considering that the client operates in the DACH region, it’s easy to estimate the financial impact. Multiply those hours by the average labor cost per hour – and you’re easily looking at high six-figure or even seven-figure savings per year.
Now imagine what your teams could do with that time if it weren’t lost on repetitive, non-value-adding tasks.
What if those same people could focus on process improvement, analytics, innovation, or customer experience instead?
And the best part?
The implementation cost was just a fraction of those savings as previously mentioned, but The real game-changer is speed. Thanks to Boomi’s no-code environment, automated documentation, and streamlined deployment, integrations can go live in a fraction of the time compared to traditional approaches. When your business already knows what needs to be connected, results come fast, with minimal effort and zero code.
What About Your Business?
If you’re reading this and already have a sense of which processes in your company are repetitive, fragmented, or overly manual – you can probably do the math for yourself.
How many hours are lost each year on things like master data updates, invoice entry, or copy-pasting data between tools?
And if you’re not sure where to start – that’s where we come in.
We’ll help you:
- Map your current workflows
- Identify time-wasting bottlenecks
- Estimate the real ROI of integration and automation
- And build a concrete, actionable plan using Boomi
✅ Ready to simplify your integrations and automate your workflows?
Let’s talk. One conversation could unlock thousands of hours – and unlock time for what actually drives value in your business.
📩 Reach out at sales@getbgd.com.
🗓️ Or book a quick discovery call — we’ll ask a few questions and suggest where smart integration could make a difference.