Boyer’s newest team member comes with 17 years of experience and a passion for data management. Asmita Chakraborti recently joined the team as a Power Platform and Data Solution Architect.
Chakraborti started her career as a solution engineer doing database administration for a Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS) company in India. She spent another couple of years as a data architect in charge of data migrations for IBM.
In 2014, she moved from India to Canada and joined an enterprise communications company where she managed her own data analytics team. She has spent the last few years focused more on the data governance aspect, especially as more companies move to the cloud.
“Whenever I see someone talking about data I can’t keep myself calm. I want to keep discussing it,” Chakraborti said. “There’s not much awareness in people about this.”
She’s passionate about educating customers on the importance of data governance. Too often, clients put data management on the back burner, not realizing how much it can harm their company to have data scattered across multiple systems.
“People don’t have time to sit down and understand that because they are busy in their own field,” she said.
Her goal is to help customers use the Microsoft ecosystem to “bring data from all the scattered locations into a centralized location,” she said. The more she can encourage customers to do that, the better off they are thanks to actionable insights for their executives.
As a Data Solution Architect at Boyer, Chakraborti can help clients think more wholistically about their data.
“People are not aware of how to use the data. They have lots of data scattered everywhere and they have too many teams accessing that data,” she said. “They don’t know how to use that raw data as useful information, to help forecast. That needs a lot of education.”
Even something as simple as knowing when to use a drop-down field versus a text field can make a difference in good data management.
Security is important too, Chakraborti added. Not everyone needs access to all the data, and setting approvals or restricting certain fields can help a company maintain better data stewardship.
With her work slowing down the past six months, Chakraborti’s itch to be busy and learn new things left her feeling a little unmotivated at her previous job. When she heard about an open position at Boyer through a former coworker, she decided to interview.
The family atmosphere appealed to her, and she accepted the job as a solution architect. She’s excited to hit the ground running and looks forward to a position that allows her to be proactive and “resolve things faster.”
At the end of the day, Chakraborti said she’s satisfied when she knows she’s done all she can to educate a client fully.
“When my advice helped or my work or the way I’m talking to someone helped … that to me is a job done,” she said.
She typically likes to go one step further and follow up with documentation or a YouTube link to make sure they have the full picture. That’s when she knows she’s given 100 percent.
“Every day I learn something new,” she added. Whether it’s learning a new technical trick, hearing about a new feature from Microsoft or even learning a random word from her daughter, she thrives on learning and sharing that knowledge with her customers.
Chakraborti lives near Toronto, Ontario with her husband, Premjit (also an ERP consultant), and their 8-year-old daughter, Shanaya.
Never one to sit idle for long, she participates in numerous food drives or cultural activities and teaches her craft to her daughter as well.
“I’m not shy. I do a lot of programs,” she said. She especially enjoys singing, painting, dancing and reciting in her native Bengali language.
