Providing software as a service (SaaS) for enabling others to access and use machine learning algorithms and processes; providing software as a service (SaaS) for enabling others to upload and manage data for the training of data models by machine learning processes; providing software as a service (SaaS) for enabling others to upload and manage data for determining and predicting patterns in the data; Providing software as a service (SaaS) for enabling others to access and use data verification software; providing software as a service (SaaS) for enabling others to access and use vision system software; providing software as a service (SaaS) for enabling others to access and use surface inspection software; providing software as a service (SaaS) for enabling others to access and use nano-scale vision system software; providing software as a service (SaaS) for enabling others to access software for use in automated manufacturing, physical component defect analysis, detection of pathogens and toxins in a biological sample, medical diagnostics, bio-security, molecular medicine, energy, precision agriculture, defence, and automated trading systems