# Smart Data

> Smart Data is an Ohio-based software engineering and IT services company that builds enterprise applications, connects ERP and CRM systems, modernizes data platforms, and develops AI systems. Founded in 2006 by Ravi Manchala, it serves mid-market and enterprise customers with teams in the Dayton area and Hyderabad, combining scoped projects, managed services, staff augmentation and recruiting.

- **Founded:** 2006
- **Headquarters:** Miamisburg, United States
- **Founders:** Ravi Manchala (Founder and CEO)
- **Products:** Enterprise application development and modernization, Data engineering and platform consulting, ERP and CRM integration, AI development and AI-assisted modernization, Managed services
- **Notable:** Reports helping an unnamed Medicaid health plan recover $16M+ after identifying mishandled nursing facility records., Reports cutting Yaskawa Motoman Salesforce-to-Epicor synchronization from up to 10 minutes to under 10 seconds, one week early and 6% under budget., Helped Winsupply establish a Hyderabad development center: 40+ hires in year one, subsequently grown past 100 engineers.

## Products & services

- **Enterprise application development and modernization** — Custom portals, internal tools, web and mobile applications, and modernization of existing enterprise systems.
- **Data engineering and platform consulting** — Pipelines, warehouses, lakehouses, governance and reporting on Microsoft Fabric, Databricks and Snowflake.
- **ERP and CRM integration** — Integrations connecting SAP, Salesforce, Epicor, NetSuite, Dynamics and other enterprise platforms.
- **AI development and AI-assisted modernization** — AI features, governed querying of enterprise data, and AI-assisted upgrades, security remediation and legacy migration.
- **Managed services** — Ongoing application and integration support with defined response tiers.
- **Staff augmentation and direct placement** — Engineers embedded in customer teams, offshore team development, contract-to-hire and recruiting.
- **SD Labs** — Showcase of open source, internal tools, talks and independent projects from people in the Smart Data ecosystem; not a single commercial software suite.

## Achievements

- Reports helping an unnamed Medicaid health plan recover $16M+ after identifying mishandled nursing facility records.
- Reports cutting Yaskawa Motoman Salesforce-to-Epicor synchronization from up to 10 minutes to under 10 seconds, one week early and 6% under budget.
- Helped Winsupply establish a Hyderabad development center: 40+ hires in year one, subsequently grown past 100 engineers.
- Reports remediating 620+ known vulnerabilities for a national distributor; over $25K in annual Azure savings realized, with about $78K total annual savings projected pending consolidation.

## Latest updates

- **2026-10** — SD Labs presents tools, open-source work, talks and projects from Smart Data’s engineering ecosystem.
- **2026-08** — Published a Dayton AI Day article on verifiable answers from enterprise data.
- **2026-05** — Announced membership in the Databricks Partner Network.

## Links

- Website: https://www.smartdata.net/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/getsmartdata
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/wearesmartdata
- GitHub: https://github.com/Smart-Data-Ohio

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Last updated: 2026-10-25