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ISoft Data Systems and Presage Analytics replace paper-based data processes
Like many entrepreneurs, Matthew Wegener saw a business problem first-hand and set out to solve it. “I came to Lincoln to study electrical engineering at UNL and got a job at a salvage yard,” said Wegener, CEO of Lincoln-based ISoft Data Systems and Presage Analytics. “They didn’t have any software to track parts, so I…
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Presage Analytics helps food processors avoid the dreaded recall
iSoft president and CEO Matthew Wegener chronicled the germination and current challenges facing Presage Analytics, his latest gamble in software development. “Nobody likes to hear it, but there’s bacteria everywhere,” Wegener said. “It’s really about the management of it, and trying to stay in front of any potential problems before you cross the threshold and…
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Lincoln’s ISoft teams up with UNL professors to help make food safer
Midwesterners are no strangers to food-related illness—and we’re not just talking about the kind that results from too much fried stuff on-a-stick. A recent cyclospora outbreak…
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Lincoln ‘Idea Community’ Turbine Flats fosters expansion, collaboration
The Turbine Flats Project is an “idea community” in Lincoln that began in 2008 with 22 people and 11,500 square feet. Today, some 75 employees work in the space, which has undergone one addition and is in the midst of a second. In December we covered ISoft Data Systems and the company’s CEO, Matthew Wegener.…
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For ISoft founder, part-time salvage yard job leads to thriving tech startup
While studying electrical engineering at The University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Matthew Wegener had a part time job at a salvage yard where he worked on cars and poured concrete. During his time there, Wegener realized the salvage yard needed an inventory management system. He made a proposal to build the system for them on evenings and…