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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BULK UPDATES to Salesforce objects are 16X faster with 11X fewer web service calls
After a dozen conversations with shops about mass data updates to the Salesforce platform, I decided to tackle this basic topic being called "one of the hardest easy things to do" by those who know SQL. The information in this article can be applied to INSERTS,DELETES,UPSERTS, etc; but I'll focus on...
Sumit Sarkar October 24, 2013
Trip through the clouds with SQL access to SaaS | Salesforce Platform
I gave the prezi below on SQL access to SaaS at #PRGS13 in Boston and it was well received by Application Partners, Industry Analysts and Global Organizations in attendance. The goal of the presentation at an appdev conference like #PRGS13 was two fold:
Sumit Sarkar October 14, 2013
Data is what unites us at Progress Exchange #PRGS13
Progress Exchange 2013 in Boston October 6-9, Westin Waterfront will be the premiere event to learn more about Progress Pacific, Progress Software's cloud strategy, that brought you DataDirect Cloud.  As a...
Sumit Sarkar September 12, 2013
DataDirect is connecting the universe to Progress OpenEdge Partner data
This December will mark the 10 year anniversary of DataDirect being acquired by Progress Software.  During this time, Progress DataDirect R&D has developed wire protocol technology for OpenEdge ODBC and JDBC drivers enabling premium standards based data connectivity.   This really opened up the...
Sumit Sarkar September 09, 2013
Ranking the ODBC/JDBC application landscape for SaaS vendors
My sentiment analysis research on the ODBC/JDBC application landscape produced some interesting results.  The rationale for this project was to leverage our customer data to help SaaS, BigData and other vendors predict patterns for data consumption and make the world a better place.  For example, I...
Sumit Sarkar August 07, 2013
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