Boomi Announces 2024 APJ Customer Innovation Award Winners

SYDNEY--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov 21, 2024--

Boomi™, the intelligent integration and automation leader, announced today the winners of its 2024 Asia Pacific and Japan (APJ) Customer Innovation Awards, recognized at its 2024 Boomi World Tour stop in Sydney.

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The winners were honored for pioneering innovative solutions by integrating applications and data into transformative, business-enhancing systems using the Boomi Enterprise Platform. This year’s recipients were chosen for their outstanding performance in the following criteria: demonstrating business impact through exceptional, quantifiable results; digital transformation; innovative projects; social impact; modernization; integration excellence; and automation excellence.

This year’s winners include:

Uniting Care Queensland (UCQ) - Healthcare Excellence Award — Uniting Care Queensland delivered a reliable and scalable service across its four hospitals with Boomi. From radiology, pathology, and maternity wards to government claim services, statutory reporting, and food services, UCQ’s decision to replace its legacy integration platform with Boomi has enabled an uplift and further reuse across its sites. Among its 110 integrations, the Boomi Enterprise Platform also supports the financial processing across billing, claims, and recoveries.

Toyota Motors Corporation Australia (TMCA) - Innovation Award — TMCA used the Boomi platform to enhance connectivity across its corporate business systems, including integrations with certain systems at TMCA franchise network here in Australia, and also enabled certain digital products for Toyota customers. This helped the automotive group to establish a unified view of customer information and supports accurate record keeping for better governance and customer experience outcomes while promoting back-end reusability in integrations and API and async driven development.

“Over the past year, integration and automation have been the driving forces behind digital transformation, where our customers have taken the spotlight,” said Thomas Lai, Vice President and General Manager of APJ at Boomi. “The 2024 APJ award winners exemplify companies committed to a variety of business outcomes, from smarter decision-making to enhanced stakeholder engagement, and boosting productivity. We are immensely proud to be involved in driving transformative change within the innovative projects recognized this year.”

In response to the overwhelming number of highly qualified submissions for this year's APJ Customer Innovation Awards, Boomi is pleased to also recognize and honor all nominees. Each of the submitting customers demonstrated excellence and exceptional work using the Boomi Enterprise Platform.

"By connecting their digital investments with Boomi and improving their data visibility, our customers are making a notable impact in their industries, delivering tangible benefits in productivity and enhancing the experiences of stakeholders and their communities,” said Lai.

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SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea and Russia reached a new agreement for expanding economic cooperation following high-level talks in Pyongyang this week, the North’s state media said Thursday, as they continue to align in the face of their confrontations with Washington.

North Korea’s official Korean Central News Agency didn’t elaborate on the details of the agreement signed Wednesday between its senior trade officials and a Russian delegation led by Alexandr Kozlov, the country’s minister of natural resources and ecology. The Russian news agency Tass on Tuesday said officials following an earlier round of talks agreed to increase the number of charter flights between the countries to promote tourism.

Kozlov, who arrived in North Korea on Sunday, met with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and his top economic official, Premier Kim Tok Hun, before returning home on Wednesday, KCNA said. During Kozlov’s visit, Russian President Vladimir Putin’s gifted Pyongyang’s Central Zoo with more than 70 animals, including lions, bears and several species of birds, according to Tass, in another display of the countries’ growing ties.

Kim Jong Un in recent months has prioritized relations with Moscow as he attempts to break out of international isolation and strengthen his footing, actively supporting Putin’s war on Ukraine while portraying the North as a player in a united front against Washington.

Kim has yet to directly acknowledge that he has been providing military equipment and troops to Russia to support its fighting against Ukraine. South Korea’s National Intelligence Service told lawmakers in a closed-door briefing on Wednesday that an estimated 11,000 North Korean soldiers in late October were moved to Russia’s Kursk region, where Ukrainian troops seized parts of its territory this year, following their training in Russia’s northeast.

The spy agency believes the North Korean soldiers were assigned to Russia’s marine and airborne forces units and some of them have already begun fighting alongside the Russians on the frontlines, said Lee Seong Kweun, a lawmaker who attended the meeting. U.S., South Korean and Ukrainian officials have claimed that the North has also been supplying Russia with artillery systems, missiles and other equipment.

North Korea would be possibly getting anywhere between $320 million to $1.3 billion annually from Russia for sending its troops to Ukraine, considering the scale of the dispatch and the level of payments Russia has been providing to foreign mercenaries, according to a recent study by Lim Soo-ho, a South Korean analyst at an NIS-run think tank.

While that would be meaningful income for North Korea’s crippled and heavily sanctioned economy, it could be lower than the money the North earns from illicit coal exports or supplying military equipment to Russia, Lim said. This suggests that North Korea’s troop dispatch is less about money than acquiring key Russian technologies to further advance its nuclear weapons and missile program, which is a major concern in Seoul, Lim said.

Amid the stalemate in larger nuclear negotiations with Washington, Kim has been dialing up pressure on South Korea, abandoning his country’s long-standing goal of inter-Korean reconciliation and verbally threatening to attack the South with nukes if provoked. He has used Russia’s war on Ukraine as a distraction to accelerate the development of his nuclear-armed military, which now has various nuclear-capable systems targeting South Korea and intercontinental ballistic missiles that can potentially reach the U.S. mainland.

FILE - Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, and North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un pose for a photo during a signing ceremony of the new partnership in Pyongyang, North Korea, on June 19, 2024. (Kristina Kormilitsyna, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP, File)

FILE - Russia's natural resources minister Alexander Kozlov, right, is greeted by Yun Jong Ho, minister of External Economic Relations, as the Russian delegation leave Pyongyang Airport in Pyongyang, on Nov. 16, 2023. (AP Photo/Jon Chol Jin, File)