With the purchase, the data integration specialist adds change data capture capabilities for AI and real-time analytics.
Boomi reached a definitive agreement to acquire Rivery.io, a move to add change data capture capabilities for trusted analysis at speed.
The acquisition, unveiled on Dec. 17, remains subject to customary closing conditions and is expected to be completed before the end of the year. Financial terms were not disclosed.
Based in Chesterbrook, Pa., Boomi is a data integration specialist. The vendor's integration platform as a service (iPaaS) portfolio is designed to enable customers to combine different types of data and data from different sources to prepare it for analysis. Rivery, a New York-based startup that raised $52.5 million in funding before its acquisition, likewise focuses on data integration.
While both vendors help users integrate data, they have different specialties. Boomi has historically focused on automation and integrating applications through tools such as data catalogs rather than individual data points. Rivery is an extract, transform and load specialist whose platform captures changes in data in real-time and delivers those changes to other systems.
Given that both AI-driven analysis and real-time analytics require up-to-date data be instantaneously available to inform data and AI products, change data capture (CDC) is gaining popularity, according to Doug Henschen, an analyst at Constellation Research.
"Low-latency requirements are showing up all over the place in modern applications and use cases, so change data capture is one of the low-latency technologies that are increasingly in demand," he said. "CDC offers a faster data-integration option than traditional batch or micro-batch extract, transform and load -- and extract, load and transform -- technologies."
AWS and Salesforce both use CDC capabilities for their low-latency data integration needs, Henschen continued. Databricks acquired Arcion in October 2023 to add CDC capabilities.