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Technology is Transforming Our Recreation Time<\/h3>\n

By John Dodge for Enterprise CIO Forum<\/a><\/p>\n

There was a day when a ski pass was nothing more than a ticket to ride. Today, that’s just a fraction of what it does. <\/p>\n

I had the good fortune to ski at the Vail and Keystone ski areas in Colorado for two days recently. Both are owned by Vail Resorts, which uses a novel RFID-based lift card system that is the outward manifestation of a rich social and big data application. <\/p>\n

The upshot is that Vail Resorts knows far more about its customers than it did when it flew blind with the paper lift ticket system. It’s the type of application – it’s called EpicMIX – that can transform the skiing experience and the company in the process (CIO Bob Urwiler has much to do with the building of EpicMIX.).<\/p>\n

Article continued here.<\/a><\/p>\n

<\/br>Excerpt appears with permission from John Dodge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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