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Why success with AI always starts with a baseline assessment
At Bright Cape, we believe that data is the engine behind operational success, but only when combined with the human side of the organization. Implementing Agentic AI (such as ChatGPT) can help companies gain faster insights, work more creatively with data, and organize their processes more efficiently. But AI is not a holy grail. Without proper oversight, a critical mindset, and a clear moral compass, it can even become misleading. That’s why we don’t only focus on technology. We also share insights on how to set realistic expectations for AI, safeguard data quality, and keep human control in the loop. Step by step, we guide you from your organization’s first introduction to AI towards embedding a truly data-driven mindset. With…
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The strategic compass for AI: Avoid drifting without direction
At Bright Cape, we believe that data is the engine behind operational success, but only when combined with the human side of the organization. Implementing agentic AI can help companies gain insights faster, interact with data more creatively, and optimize processes more efficiently. However, Agentic AI is not a holy...
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10 years of Bright Cape: driven by curiosity toward impactful data solutions
Eindhoven, 30 july 2025 - Ten years ago, Bright Cape started in the attic of the Petrakerk. Today, it’s a mature organization located in the heart of Eindhoven. With a solid position in data solutions through data engineering, data analytics, data strategy, process mining, and HDI. This year marks Bright...
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Bright Cape wins Rabobank Community Award at the Brainport Entrepreneurs Awards 2025
Eindhoven, May 16, 2025 – On May 15, 2025, Bright Cape received the prestigious Rabobank Community Award, part of the Brainport Entrepreneurs Awards 2025. This award is presented to companies that have made a demonstrable social impact in the Brainport region. The award ceremony took place during the celebratory Brainport...
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How manufacturing analytics improves root cause analysis
In previous blogs, we've described how manufacturing analytics can help companies achieve operational excellence through data and AI technologies. A closely related discipline in the manufacturing context is root cause analysis. Root cause analysis (RCA) is the quality management process by which an organisation searches for the root cause of...
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7 essential steps for a successful end-to-end path to Manufacturing Analytics implementation
Manufacturing analytics is a powerful data-driven methodology that can help you uncover the cost drivers in your operations. In one of our previous blogs, you can read more about how to uncover these cost drivers with the help of manufacturing analytics. However, practice tells us that a staggering 87% of...
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How to achieve Operational Excellence in Manufacturing with Analytics
The drive for efficiency, profitability, and sustainability is at the heart of every manufacturing operation. But in today’s rapidly changing landscape, many challenges often stand in the way of success, requiring innovative solutions and fresh approaches to problem solving. Imagine you’re an operations executive navigating turbulent water. Fluctuating energy prices...
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How to use Process Mining to create value: insights and takeaways from Celonis World Tour 2023
Bright Cape attended the Celonis World Tour 2023 in Amsterdam, a roadshow bringing together industry leaders, business titans, and the world’s top experts in Process Mining and execution management. It was an amazing event and an opportunity to chat with old colleagues, current customers, bump into familiar faces and meet new ones. This day was a...
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Attended event: Celosphere 2023
Date: 14-15 November 2023 Our attendance at Celosphere in Munich on 14-15 November 2023 turned out to be a great success for Bright Cape. This annually recurring event is a must-attend event for business process experts and leaders to experience cutting-edge technologies and get inspired about best practices in...
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Bright Cape created a design library for dashboards for quick prototyping
At Bright Cape, we offer the unique discipline Human-Data Interaction (HDI). This discipline bridges the gap between data and people. Together with our Data Analysts, Data Scientists, Data Engineers, and Process Mining Consultants our Human Data Interaction Consultants form an integral part of our multidisciplinary team that is constantly working on...
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My first months as an Human Data Interaction Consultant at Bright Cape
It’s been a couple of months since Gamze kick-started her career at Bright Cape. She is grateful to turn out as a Human Data Interaction Consultant (HDI) after completing her Data-Driven Design Master’s Degree in Utrecht. We caught up with her to learn firsthand how her experiences have been so...
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How I experience the culture at Bright Cape
Bente finished her studies at the beginning of the year 2021 and started her career as a Data Scientist at Bright Cape in April 2021. She studied Industrial Engineering and Data Science & Entrepreneurship, a handy combination of Business and Data Science. In a series of three blogs, she will...
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Logistiek en data-analyse bundelen krachten in Brainport: Nunner helpt Bright Cape mede aan 10 miljoen euro groeikapitaal
HELMOND/EINDHOVEN - Eigenaar Erwin Cootjans van de Helmondse logistieke dienstverlener Nunner bundelt de krachten met het Eindhovense data-analysebedrijf Bright Cape. Dat krijgt door investeringen van Cootjans en de huidige eigenaren voor ruim 10 miljoen euro aan groeikapitaal. Bright Cape helpt bedrijven gebruik te maken van de enorme hoeveelheid data die ze...
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Introducing VIPO
Computer vision and AI to improve customer knowledge and user experience for retail and fashion brands Bright Cape is working on a new EIT Digital-supported project and it is going to hit the market. Together with the University of Barcelona and the University of Rennes1 we are working on a new...
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Care robot Sara stays overnight
Care robot SARA supports care personnel during the COVID-19 crisis. The COVID-19 virus hits hard in The Netherlands. Especially for the elderly, and caregivers, the consequences are enormous. Intending to provide remote care and provide relief from the 'loneliness virus', Bright Cape makes its care robot SARA available to elderly...
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Industry 4.0
Smart machines Industry 4.0 is the fourth industrial revolution, with the main purpose of enhancing computers and machines with smart and autonomous systems that are driven by data and machine learning. This makes producing more efficient which gives the investing company an increases competitive position. Smart machines are based on...
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Robotic colleague reduces work pressure in healthcare
This article is a translation of the original Dutch article, which you can read here Eindhoven - The Dutch organization Bright Cape has, within a European EIT Digital Innovation consortium, developed a robotic healthcare colleague to reduce work pressure in the health sector and maintain quality of care. SARA, is the...
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The road to a data-driven organization with AI: where do you start?
At Bright Cape, we believe that data is the engine behind operational success, but only when combined with the human side of the organization. Implementing Agentic AI (like ChatGPT) can help companies gain insights faster, interact with data more creatively, and optimize processes more efficiently. However, AI is not a...
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ISO 27001 certification
Eindhoven, June 27, 2025 – Bright Cape is proud to announce that it has officially received the globally recognized ISO 27001 certification, marking an important step in our ongoing journey to keep information safe and secure. This certification strengthens Bright Capes’ dedication to protecting the confidentiality, integrity and availability of...
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Effectively designing for Generative AI and LLM
As Artificial Intelligence continues to evolve, many companies are exploring how to integrate Generative AI into their software solutions. However, many companies struggle to find clear use cases due to unknown accuracy. The accuracy of AI highly depends on the human input, i.e. the ability to write good prompts. Often...
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How manufacturing analytics solutions can boost profitability and sustainability
In the never-ending quest for profitability, operations managers are always looking for new tools and strategies to stay ahead of the competition. One such solution is manufacturing analytics-a powerful weapon in your toolkit for uncovering hidden insights, streamlining operations and reducing costs. But what exactly do manufacturing analytics solutions entail,...
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How to determine the cost drivers in your value chain
In manufacturing, operational executives play a critical role in overseeing and managing the overall, aggregated day-to-day operations. However, in the dynamic nature of manufacturing, it’s easy to get caught up in looking for high-level trends and optimization opportunities to improve overall profitability, when the real insights are often in the...
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Collaboration between Lumens and Bright Cape launched
Both have only just joined Brainport voor Elkaar, but one is already helping the other with an important issue. Welfare organization Lumens has joined forces with Bright Cape, an expert in data solutions. The goal: to measure the impact of all of Lumens' services. 'We are actually gaining an external...
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Upcoming event: FME AI for Industry Year Event 2023
What? FME AI for Industry Year Event 2023 When? 7 December 2023 We are gearing up for this next event at Perron 038, a place for the innovative manufacturing industry in the Zwolle region. The program of the AI for Industry Annual Event 2023 consists of both practical case...
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ABN AMRO’s secret to E2E Process Improvement & Value Creation
One of our most recent success stories is ABN AMRO, one of the largest banks in the Netherlands. Over the previous 4 years, we have provided data-driven insights into the E2E processes and operations by implementing Celonis as a Process mining analysis tool. In this specific project, we used Celonis...
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Efficiency + Sustainability = Performance
Bright Cape was present at the Amsterdam stop of the 2022 Celonis World Tour, a roadshow bringing together industry leaders, business titans, and the world’s top experts in process mining and execution management. And as we prepare to attend Celosphere 2022 in Munich, Germany, we want to look back on...
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The road to becoming a Process Mining consultant
The Process Mining Consultants at Bright Cape analyze operational processes and guide our clients through the entire process. They play an important role in translating complex data into meaningful insights to show clients what actually happened in the process and help them understand why it happened. This data-driven approach uncovers...
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In search of my first job as a Data Science graduate
Bente finished her studies at the beginning of the year 2021 and started her career as a Data Scientist at Bright Cape in April 2021. She studied Industrial Engineering and Data Science & Entrepreneurship, a handy combination of Business and Data Science. In a series of three blogs, she will...
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The learnings of Celosphere LIVE 2020
As a partner of Celonis we attended Celosphere 2020, the biggest process mining event of the year. Within this 3-day event we acquired a tremendous amount of new ideas and obtained the latest insights. Eager to know the highlights? Here we have brought together a selection of various customer stories...
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Bright Cape investeert in toekomst met High Tech Software Cluster
Bright Cape treedt toe tot het High Tech Software Cluster. CEO Serge Beniers: ,, Wij zien gelijkgestemden in het cluster en begrijpen dat we de handen ineen moeten slaan om de toekomst van maakbedrijven in de regio zeker te stellen. Zeker in lastige tijden is het belangrijk om met de...
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OWL Logistics
Automating processes The industry 4.0 keeps developing. By automating processes in the supply chain, robots and machines become able to communicate with one another and make autonomous decisions. Instead of replacing the employees, those machines are a substitute that helps their colleagues with their daily tasks. To automate the machines,...
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Bright Cape provides Smart Industry Assistant
Consultancy company becomes SAS Managed Analytics Service Provider Bright Cape made a Managed Application Service Provider (MASP) deal with SAS. Therefore, Bright Cape can transform its Smart Industry Assistant (SIA) to a fast, safe and cloud-based application. By building the SIA- solution on the SAS Viya-platform, Bright Cape helps optimising...
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Bright Cape in Eindhoven helpt bedrijven en doet leuke dingen met data
Data gedreven EINDHOVEN - Goed nieuws voor twijfelende directeuren, managers en calculators. Bright Cape helpt ze hun beslissingen te toetsen aan vele gegevens. Bovendien doet het Eindhovense bedrijf leuke dingen met data, met steun van Europa. Dat Bright Cape behalve in een sfeervol voormalig kerkje in Stratum ook op de...
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