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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Watch Codeless Bulk Load into SQL Server Accelerate Workflow from 68 to Under 3 Minutes
The most recent remark shared by a prospect about codeless DataDirect Bulk Load is, "that's freakin cool".  That reaction, in varying phrases, is becoming more common and here are some of the numbers being shared by prospects around load times:
    Data & AI
    Sumit Sarkar December 04, 2012
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    Excel PowerPivot connection direct to Salesforce SaaS using ODBC for self service analytics
    This tutorial shows how you can use the world's most widely used BI tool, Microsoft Excel, to get direct SQL access via ODBC to SaaS applications hosted in the cloud.  More specifically, we'll look at how Excel power users can leverage PowerPivot to build enhanced analytic capabilities directly on...
    Data & AI DataDirect
    Sumit Sarkar November 15, 2012
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    Oracle Data Integrator (ODI) and BI Publisher JDBC connections to Salesforce
    With the conclusion of the Dreamforce and Oracle OpenWorld conferences in SFO last month, I am now seeing several new POCs using technology learned from both worlds.  While DataDirect attended both events, all I am willing to share is that one had better music and the other had better breakfast...
    Data & AI
    Sumit Sarkar October 17, 2012
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    Top 4 transformative moments on real-time SQL data access to Salesforce from #DF12
    The Progress DataDirect team of data connectivity professionals at DreamForce 12 engaged with hundreds of organizations on direct SQL access via ODBC and JDBC to Salesforce across several venues:
      Data & AI
      Sumit Sarkar September 26, 2012
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      Jaspersoft iReport and JasperReports real-time connection to Salesforce using JDBC
      I have worked with a number of Salesforce organizations (running CRM, force.com or database.com) looking to leverage the power of JasperSoft BI against their Salesforce data.  JasperSoft bundles a demo postgres database to showcase the features and functionality of their BI solution.  These are very...
      Data & AI
      Sumit Sarkar June 22, 2012
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      SAP Business Objects Universe to Salesforce CRM, database.com, force.com
      Welcome to the growing list of SAP Business Objects shops building a Universe to Salesforce using DataDirect connectivity.  We have completed several successful POCs with BOBJ 3.1 and 4.0.  The BOBJ documentation refers to the DataDirect OpenAccess ODBC driver for Salesforce.  However, DataDirect has...
      Data & AI
      Sumit Sarkar May 22, 2012
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