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Thursday, February 11th, 2010

The Trouble with Traditional Data Analysis

Why has turning data into competitive action so hard for so long? Look at these top 5 questions below and you’ll see why:

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Tuesday, September 8th, 2009

Neuron vs Your Brain: Who’s Smarter?

At first thought, the answer seems easy.  You have 100 billion neurons; Neuron has far fewer eponymous processing units.  You are the product of millions of years of evolution; Neuron is an advanced system, but is the culmination of merely a quarter century of development.  You have common sense; Neuron doesn’t know how to boil [...]

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Sunday, August 30th, 2009

Acres of Diamonds

Russel Conwell, the famous orator, minister and founder of Temple University, gave a famous lecture on finding your own “personal acre of diamonds.” As the story goes (and I may get some small details wrong here), there was a wealthy farmer who had all he needed in life to be secure and happy. Wealth, [...]

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Monday, August 24th, 2009

CEO Ryan Caplan Introduces Cloud-based Machine Intelligence on the bEye Network

ColdLight CEO Ryan Caplan introduces bEye Network’s Ron Powell to the world’s first pay-for-use, cloud-based, Prescriptive Intelligence engine service. ColdLight’s revolutionary product Neuron offers a simple service-based interface to embed smart analytics into other products enabling better decisions based on relevant data. Listen to the podcast.

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Wednesday, July 22nd, 2009

Competing with the Status Quo

One question I’m often asked is, “Who is ColdLight’s biggest competitor?” People love to hear about who you compete with so they can properly put you in a mental bucket of how alike you are to everything else in the world. In a sense, they’re asking how you conform to the current paradigm and differentiate [...]

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Friday, July 3rd, 2009

Video Blog: ColdLight CEO Ryan Caplan on Personalized Healthcare

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Tuesday, May 5th, 2009

Microsoft Features ColdLight as Startup to Watch

The company of the day is ColdLight, based in the US. ColdLight has the goal of delivering Prescriptive Intelligence into the hand of the 80% of business users. You will find below an interview with Ryan Caplan, President and CEO of ColdLight. All the best to them and congrats for being the startup of the [...]

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Wednesday, February 4th, 2009

Population Growth: New Challenges for Business

Right now, the last thing we need to think about is another challenge to business success. But, lets look beyond the current economic environment for a minute and think about what population growth means to the future of business decision making. We’ve all heard about the “brain drain” overseas. Where highly skilled people leave to [...]

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Friday, January 30th, 2009

The Age of Mass Intelligence?

I was recently reading a posting entitled “The Age of Mass Intelligence“. The article prompted some interesting points regarding the mass availability of information to the growing population of the world and the proliferation of intelligence around the globe.
Sure, there are still many people without internet access, cable TV and other mass media channels. But, [...]

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Monday, January 26th, 2009

Creating Trust

What will business owe to the decision maker?  How does the enterprise empower the decision maker inside the organization?
Companies are judged in so-called “Best Places to Work” lists based upon the things they give to employees like great health benefits, great work environments, flex time, daycare and whether there is a cappuccino maker in the [...]

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