Sumit Sakar

Sumit Sarkar

Technology researcher, thought leader and speaker working to enable enterprises to rapidly adopt new technologies that are adaptive, connected and cognitive. Sumit has been working in the data access infrastructure field for over 10 years servicing web/mobile developers, data engineers and data scientists. His primary areas of focus include cross platform app development, serverless architectures, and hybrid enterprise data management that supports open standards such as ODBC, JDBC, ADO.NET, GraphQL, OData/REST. He has presented dozens of technology sessions at conferences such as Dreamforce, Oracle OpenWorld, Strata Hadoop World, API World, Microstrategy World, MongoDB World, etc.

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Apache Solr ODBC over REST for OBIEE, Business Objects, Qlikview
Based on some recent projects, I am seeing a trend that continues to blur the lines between business intelligence (BI) and application development. It’s only fitting to blog about this topic since Progress Software is the worldwide leader in data connectivity and...
Sumit Sarkar February 06, 2014
The Evolution of Data Connectivity in 2014
It’s hard to believe that we’re about to wrap up 2013. The year really flew! In terms of technology trends, it was an eventful year in the world of application development and data connectivity. PaaS made a big splash, and we’ve seen a huge influx in Big Data platforms, which has forced providers to...
Sumit Sarkar December 23, 2013
SSIS Salesforce ODBC sources and targets for SQL Server Integration Services
Following my third Dreamforce presentation on SQL data connectivity to Salesforce, I'm hearing more projects loading data into the Salesforce Platform.  The sales ecosystem at...
Sumit Sarkar December 19, 2013
Become famous for taking control of Salesforce data at Dreamforce 13
My session sold out last year to a packed house at Moscone, and attendees hit the ground running post DF12 on amazing data driven...
Sumit Sarkar November 08, 2013
SaaS Data access API headache across SQL, SOQL, ROQL, SOAP, REST
With the proliferation of data silos in SaaS applications, a lot of data driven organizations and application developers are getting headaches.
Sumit Sarkar October 28, 2013
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