Dropfire

DropFire has brought to market data integration technology that employs artificial intelligence to automate the creation and maintenance of data mappings and transformations. DropFire's core platform, IGNITE, provides an intuitive interface to capture metadata about the structure and semantics of disparate systems. IGNITE uses this metadata to generate executables for existing data frameworks. With IGNITE, integration engineers and data analysts are able to reduce the time needed to implement and maintain this critical function by an average of 30% upfront and over 50% ongoing. Ignite is unique in that it adds semantic awareness in an automated way. The key aspect is embracing the declarative approach. With Ignite, low-value definition work is done only once and then automated (and can be done mostly by analysts vs. integration engineers). In a large-scale project, there are many repetitions across data paths, and even more changes over time as the integration network grows and evolves and constituent systems change. Ignite automates the creation and updating of these data paths, as well as helping define - in advance of the implementation effort - exactly what needs to be done to perform required data transformations.