Smart Data

Smart Data is now an official Databricks partner. The partnership puts a formal name on work our team has been delivering for some time. We have been embedded with a Fortune 100 grocer, helping move their data platform onto Databricks at enterprise scale. That engagement is what brought our Databricks practice to a place where the partnership made sense. Through the relationship, we will continue focusing on the parts of Databricks adoption that get glossed over in vendor decks: cloud-native data delivery, legacy data platform migration, and the production scaffolding underneath. Plus a formal line to the Databricks ecosystem, which feeds back into the recommendations we make to customers. More on what the partnership unlocks for our customers in the coming weeks. Full announcement on the blog: https://lnkd.in/eCkp9pgB #Databricks #DataEngineering #DataPlatform

Smart Data is looking for a Technical Recruiter to own a full-cycle IT staffing seat. The role is still open. The work is enterprise contingent staffing through VMS platforms. You would be sourcing IT talent across software engineering, data engineering, cloud and DevOps, and cybersecurity, and submitting candidates through programs like Fieldglass, Beeline, Workday, and Coupa. The environment to expect: req loads run heavy, submission windows are tight, and candidate quality carries the same weight as speed. Our team is smaller and specialist. Recruiters here own their accounts and their numbers. The fit we are hiring for: 🔹 3+ years of full-cycle technical recruiting (agency or RPO) 🔹 Hands-on VMS platform experience (required, not preferred) 🔹 Working fluency in IT terminology across at least 2 to 3 disciplines 🔹 LinkedIn Recruiter and Boolean sourcing 🔹 Comfort negotiating rates inside MSP-managed programs The seat comes with a competitive base plus uncapped commission, full medical/dental/vision/401(k)/disability, three weeks of PTO, and remote flexibility with preference for candidates near Dayton or Cincinnati. If someone in your network fits, send them our way. 👉 Reach out to Jon Greene at jon.greene@smartdata.net. 🔗 https://lnkd.in/dtFtttm #SmartData #Hiring #TechnicalRecruiter #ITStaffing #Recruitingjobs

Plenty of Medicaid plans still run a mobile app on one side and a member portal on the other. Each with its own bugs, gaps, and release cycle. Members have to choose which one to trust. We worked with one of the largest Medicaid managed care organizations in the United States to consolidate those two surfaces into a single React Remix progressive web application. One codebase. Phone, tablet, and desktop. The architecture decision that mattered: Application Version Support. A PWA plus a feature-flag layer that lets different member cohorts run different feature sets at the same time. No app store version gates. No multi-version maintenance burden. 22 months in production. Roadmap into 2027. 👉 Full case study here: https://lnkd.in/eRVhbwwV #Medicaid #Healthcare #PWA #SmartData

Back from SAP Sapphire 2026 in Orlando. Always one of the better weeks of our year for catching up with the customers and partners we work with, plus a few new connections too. A lot of momentum this year around SAP eCommerce, Accounts Receivable, and B2B payments. Plenty to take back to the team and dig into. Thanks to everyone who made time for us. Already looking forward to next year! #SAPSapphire #SAPInnovation #DigitalTransformation #eCommerce #AccountsReceivable #B2BPayments #SmartData ChronarPay

Great experience attending the Ohio Tech Summit last week in Columbus. The energy around AI, innovation, advanced manufacturing, startups, enterprise technology, and Ohio's growing tech ecosystem was impressive. What stood out most was the collaboration between enterprise leaders, entrepreneurs, universities, investors, and technology professionals, all focused on building the future of tech in Ohio. A few themes consistently surfaced throughout the day: 🔹Applied AI is moving from concept to execution 🔹Companies are being asked to deliver more without increasing risk or headcount 🔹Talent, speed, and innovation are becoming major differentiators 🔹Ohio continues to position itself as a serious technology and innovation hub Appreciated the conversations, insights, and new connections made throughout the event. Excited to continue helping organizations accelerate outcomes around AI, data modernization, and custom software initiatives while reducing delivery risk. #OhioX #OhioTechSummit #AI #Innovation #Technology #Data #DigitalTransformation #ColumbusOhio #OhioTech

𝗚𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘁 𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗿𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝗦𝗔𝗣 𝗦𝗮𝗽𝗽𝗵𝗶𝗿𝗲 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲! The Smart Data team and portfolio brands are back in Orlando for another year at SAP Sapphire. Principal Ravi Manchala, ChronarPay CEO Chris St Amand, Jay Brown, Rajesh Kumar Chintakunta, and Steve Held are on-site this week, catching up with familiar faces, attending sessions, and keeping a pulse on where SAP is heading. This year's anchor themes, Business AI, Business Data Cloud, and Sovereign Cloud, are timely ones, and the energy on the floor reflects that. If you're attending, say hi. Plenty to talk through. #SAPSapphire #SAPInnovation #EnterpriseAI #SmartData

Smart Data is hiring a Technical Recruiter for our IT staffing team. This is a full-cycle recruiting seat focused on enterprise contingent staffing through VMS platforms. You would be sourcing IT talent across software engineering, data engineering, cloud and DevOps, and cybersecurity, and submitting candidates through programs like Fieldglass, Beeline, Workday, and Coupa. A few things to know about the environment: req loads run high, submission windows are tight, and quality matters as much as speed. We work as a smaller, specialist team, and recruiters here own their accounts and their numbers. What we are looking for: 🔹 3+ years of full-cycle technical recruiting (staffing agency or RPO) 🔹 Hands-on VMS platform experience (required, not preferred) 🔹 Fluency in IT terminology across at least 2-3 disciplines 🔹 LinkedIn Recruiter and Boolean sourcing 🔹 Comfort negotiating pay rates inside MSP-managed programs The seat offers a competitive base plus uncapped commission, full medical/dental/vision/401(k)/disability, three weeks of PTO, and remote flexibility with preference for candidates near Dayton or Cincinnati. If you know someone who fits, send them our way. 👉 Reach out to Jon Greene at jon.greene@smartdata.net. 🔗 https://lnkd.in/dtFtttm #SmartData #Hiring #TechnicalRecruiter #ITStaffing #Recruiting

Most enterprise data platform builds start with the vendor question. AWS or Azure? Snowflake or Databricks? The cloud and the engine are variables. The architecture is the constant. Bronze. Silver. Gold. Source data preserved as-is. Cleaned and conformed across systems. Curated and ready for serving. Runs on any cloud, with any engine, swappable layer by layer. 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗸𝘀𝗵𝗼𝗽. Inventory the top 3 use cases. Pick one. 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝘃𝗲. Land Bronze. Promote one Gold use case end to end. 𝗦𝗰𝗮𝗹𝗲. Decide the compute engine when scope is real, not before. 90 days to first Gold. Not 12 months to a half-finished warehouse. The architecture stays the same. The platform choices are the variables. None of these decisions are one-way doors. 👉 If your team is six months into a data platform build with no shipped use case, the constraint is usually less about budget and more about sequence. 🔗 More on how we approach it → https://lnkd.in/eX7m8jHP #EnterpriseData #DataEngineering #DataFoundation #SmartData

𝗠𝗼𝘀𝘁 𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗽𝗿𝗶𝘀𝗲 𝘁𝗼𝗼𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸 𝗵𝗮𝗽𝗽𝗲𝗻𝘀 𝗾𝘂𝗶𝗲𝘁𝗹𝘆. 𝗕𝘂𝗶𝗹𝗱, 𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗽, 𝗶𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗲, 𝗿𝗮𝗿𝗲𝗹𝘆 𝗴𝗲𝘁 𝘁𝗮𝗹𝗸𝗲𝗱 𝗮𝗯𝗼𝘂𝘁. 𝗪𝗲 𝗯𝘂𝗶𝗹𝘁 𝗮 𝗰𝘂𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗺 𝗟𝗠𝗦 𝘁𝗼𝗼𝗹 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗚𝗼𝗼𝗴𝗹𝗲'𝘀 𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝘀𝗮𝗹𝗲𝘀 𝘁𝗲𝗮𝗺. Sales reps sign in with their Google account and pull files straight from their own Drive. The platform copies assets into a shared library, applies tags and collections, governs who sees what, and syncs out to the third-party sales enablement platform their team already uses. Google designed the UI. We built to spec. The integrations, the tagging engine, the publishing workflow, and the role model were ours to figure out. The win wasn't a single feature. It was a scattered set of tools getting consolidated into one surface. Faster access for reps. Less duplication across systems. Governance that didn't require an engineering ticket every time something changed. The lesson isn't really about the tech. Enterprise software that holds up isn't built by big teams or long handoffs. It's built by senior people sitting close to the work. Swipe through for the full breakdown. 👉 If your team is hunting for assets, duplicating content across systems, or waiting on engineering for every governance change, worth a conversation. 🔗 Full case study here → https://lnkd.in/eJw5DG35 #EnterpriseTooling #SalesEnablement #SmartData #LMS

Great day today at the Women 4 Tech: Next Level 2026, hosted by Technology First at the Sinclair Conference Center. Smart Data was proud to attend, with Robyn Miller representing the team. Strong sessions on DISC, focused on understanding our behavioral footprint, and CliftonStrengths, on discovering the top strengths you bring to a team. Thanks to Technology First for putting on another well-run event and for continuing to invest in the leaders shaping Ohio's tech community. #Women4Tech #W4T26 #TechnologyFirst #UniteDaytonTech #SmartData