New Zealand’s HEB Construction chose Boomi™ to enable the delivery of an enterprise resource planning (ERP) modernisation project.
“With New Zealand’s regulatory and functional requirements contrasting previously deployed markets, it became clear a ‘digital transplant’ wouldn’t be suitable – HEB required a different approach,” said Mircel Van Der Walt, Enterprise Architect at HEB Construction. “Instead, my team considered a hybrid integration approach. This decision was driven, not only by the necessity for a compliant governance system but also by our imperative to uphold our existing expertise in local systems like HR.”
iPaaS
To establish hub and spoke integration patterns between its local applications, HEB implemented Boomi’s integration platform as a service (iPaaS). The services included payroll, timesheet, inventory management, and equipment maintenance systems.
The construction company mirrored its local patterns with the global ERP stack to form hub-to-hub connectivity, establishing seamless communication and reusable integration patterns.
Boomi Master Data Hub
HEB also implemented Boomi Master Data Hub (MDH) to manage its digital assets through people, projects, and equipment.
“By establishing boundaries between the three data archetypes, ERP data accurately feeds through and lands where it should locally, and vice versa. For example, new hire information now pulls in our Boomi ‘people’ bucket and trickles up to the ERP when minimum data completeness is reached,” added Van Der Walt.
“This is a true representation of local innovation born out of a global company’s recognition of unique requirements needed in-region. HEB used Boomi to create a crossbreed of top-performing systems, and by doing so, established a mutual understanding that there are no camps – rather, both organisations used their respective systems and tools to create an integrated outcome serving a common goal,” said Nathan Gower, senior director for Enterprise, APAC at Boomi.
