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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Solution to "current transaction is aborted" error for PostgreSQL compatibility with ODBC/JDBC
Developers either love or hate this PostgreSQL, or Postgres, error.  For developers new to Postgres or expanding Postgres support to their applications, the perspective is a little different since they find out that Postgres handles transactions differently than common databases such as Oracle, SQL...
Sumit Sarkar July 02, 2013
Is your data access strategy blocking adoption of your SaaS application?
Data access is a critical factor in adopting SaaS solutions for organizations, and the Salesforce developer evangelists that sponsored my Dreamforce session last year shared that data connectivity is the most popular topic on the developer track.
Sumit Sarkar June 19, 2013
Cognos Business Analytics connectivity to Hadoop Hive just got bigger
In my role as DataDirect Systems Engineer + IBM Certified Cognos Developer, I have been integrating data for IBM Cognos shops ranging from...
Sumit Sarkar May 29, 2013
Websphere Liberty Profile JDBC NTLM Windows Authentication from Unix/Linux to SQL Server
In introducing Websphere Liberty Profile (WLP), Dr. Ian Robinson, IBM Distinguished Engineer asks these three questions when choosing a...
Sumit Sarkar May 16, 2013
SQL Server Linked Server ODBC connection to Salesforce from Management Studio
SQL Server shops run their businesses on DataDirect Connect64 for ODBC drivers using Linked Server to federate data against sources such as DB2, Oracle, Sybase, Postgres, Informix and...
Sumit Sarkar April 24, 2013
ODBC drivers for Microsoft Access and Excel on Unix/Linux for SAS, SAP, Oracle, IBM
From recent consulting projects, I have learned that analyzing data in Microsoft Office enables unique and valuable business insights across an organization.  In particular, these projects were based on ODBC connectivity to Excel/Access from applications such as SAS (SAS/Access interface to ODBC),...
Sumit Sarkar January 02, 2013
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