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Topic:
API Overload: Simplify BI against SaaS data
Summary:
The average company has over 20 SaaS applications deployed, and as lines-of-business take control over technology selection, that number is going to skyrocket. Doing BI against the myriad of proprietary APIs these applications expose is time consuming, error prone, and a drain on IT resources. Learn about these pitfalls and how companies are better handling this API explosion.
Presenter(s):
Dion Picco – General Manager
Sumit Sarkar – Chief Data Evangelist
Sumit Sarkar is a Chief Data Evangelist at Progress, with more than 10 years of experience working in the data connectivity field. As a leading consultant on open data standards connectivity with cloud data, Sumit’s interests include: performance tuning of the data access layer for which he has developed a patent pending analysis technology, business intelligence and data warehousing for SaaS platforms, and data connectivity for aPaaS environments with a focus on standards such as ODBC, JDBC, ADO.NET and ODATA. He is an IBM Certified Consultant for IBM Cognos Business Intelligence and a TDWI member. He has presented sessions on data connectivity at various conferences including Dreamforce, Oracle OpenWorld, Strata Hadoop, MongoDB World and SAP Analytics and Business Objects Conference, among many others.
Company Profile:
Progress is a global software company that simplifies the development, deployment and management of business applications on-premise or in the cloud, on any platform or device, to any data source, with enhanced performance, minimal IT complexity and low total cost of ownership.
Case Studies:
MicroStrategy
NetSuite
VoltDB
Press Release:
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