The main Component in Boomi is the Process. A Process represents a business process- or transaction-level interface between two systems. Examples of a Process might be "Salesforce Account Synchronization to a legacy accounting system" or "Sales Orders from Company ABC to QuickBooks." Processes contain a left-to-right series of Shapes connected together like a flow chart to illustrate the steps required to transform, route, and otherwise manipulate the data from source to destination.
Processes use Connectors to get and send data. Every Process begins with the Start Shape (containing the inbound Connector) on the left, any number of Execution and Logic shapes in the middle, and typically ends with one or more outbound Connectors on the right.
The structure and format of the source and destination data are represented by Profiles. There are three basic categories of profiles: Flat File, XML, and Database. A Process will typically contain one or more Maps along the way that transform the source Profile into the destination Profile.
When a Process is executed, the inbound Connector in the Start Shape retrieves its data (for example: performs an FTP GET, executes a database SELECT query, or invokes a web service call) and passes the resulting data into the Process as one or more Documents. Documents move through the Process steps sequentially where each step performs a specific task on the data and then passes it on to the next step.
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