The world is inundated with data, yet most professionals and businesses have neither the time for custom programming nor the resources to delve into "Big Data" to extract meaningful solutions. This world of Big Data and predictive analytics has been inaccessible to everyone outside of the expertise of IT and Data Scientists - until now!

5D Innovations' software, Discovery Catalyst™, allows businesses to converse in real time with their data in plain English, to Unlock its Hidden Value. Offered as Software as a Service (SaaS), our products are used to explore a company’s data in a dynamic question-and-answer format with no programming required and no required customer installations. 5D’s proprietary technology guides users through an analysis by giving analysis suggestions to the user and then simple answers and easily understood explanations and visualizations for anyone in an organization. The initial availability of the individual professional product, Discovery Catalyst™ Pro, is targeted for Q2 2013, followed by the enterprise version midyear 2013.

"Time is Money".... The time to extract meaningful information from your business data is significantly reduced with Discovery Catalyst™. Our solutions scale to the needs of your company’s data solutions: from a cloud-hosted product for professionals, to either a cloud-based or company server-based solution for enterprise and data-streaming customers. All while co-locating the analytics to your data, not the data to the analytical engine - saving both time and money for the customer.

With no knowledge of statistics or programming, you can ask questions in your own words to find out what drives behaviors and events. 5D works with your existing data warehouses, as well as data that isn't co-located or dirty, and can handle real-time high velocity data streams. It intelligently surveys your data, and learns about it as it moves through your existing systems. Think of it as an "intelligent multimeter" that lets you ask questions about this moving data using an interface similar to a search engine.

Business intelligence companies typically watch for predetermined metrics. 5D Innovations breaks this paradigm.  5D's Discovery Catalyst products can interact with data ad-hoc, meaning companies don't need to follow just pre-defined formulas, they can ask their data anything, anytime......

Our predictive analytics for real-time high velocity data allows businesses to:  

The user interface of our technology platform is built around the concept of a Q&A (Question and Answer) dialog. When you ask one question, our technology allows you to ask another question based on the results of the last question. In this manner, you explore your intuition, or rather "have a conversation", as the interaction is based on communicating with your data in your own words. This approach to the user experience also provides traceability in the sequence of questions that lead to an insight.

David Hawks, Founder & CEO

Mr. Hawks has over 13 years of experience designing and building software and hardware technology solutions. He is Systems/electrical engineer & manager with broad experience in voice of customer, architecture, algorithm development, analysis, bioinformatics, design, quality and purchasing.

Mark Sawczuk, Founder & Chief Technical Officer

Mr. Sawczuk is an entrepreneur with over 13 years of industry experience in algorithm development, expert systems and machine learning applications leveraging high performance computing (HPC). This is coupled with many years of experience in database design, machine vision, software and web-application development.

Paul Spencer, Founder & Chief Marketing Officer

Mr. Spencer is a lead systems engineer with over 25 years of experience developing a broad portfolio of engineering and business solutions for Fortune 500 and mid-tier customers. He has worked on projects including fiber transmission equipment and compression algorithms for distribution of High Definition television signals over Cable Television and optical fiber systems, imaging algorithms and photometric models for consumer camera equipment, and has recently operated a successful consulting company with primary customer engagements in the locomotive design and manufacturing, hybrid vehicle electronics and medical diagnostics industry.

Brian Wade, Chief Sales Officer (CSO)

Mr. Wade is a senior sales executive with over 25 years of experience in sales, sales management, marketing, channel development, strategic alliances and business/market strategy. He has extensive experience working with small and start-up companies in developing and driving sales plans/tactics to launch products or develop new market segments. Mr. Wade has worked for companies such as Digital Equipment Corporation, Wall Data, Network-1 Software and Services, and others, generating directly and indirectly over $500M in revenue. He was responsible for GTE as a worldwide corporate account at Digital Equipment growing the revenue from $9M to $63M in five years.

5D has been accepted into Launchpad, TEN and is a finalist in the Rochester regional business plan competition (http://htr.org/finalists-selected-2013-rochester-regional-business-plan-contest)

'Beta' software is now available, and is currently undergoing live customer testing (through the end of April, 2013).

We have received a letter of intent from a B2B business in the food services industry, and are in advanced discussions with several significant companies in the M2M industry.

Our IP is locked in with provisional patents.