Earlier this year, I had the pleasure of presenting an approach for multi-enterprise visibility using S3Edge software in the cloud, on-premise, and on-mobile devices (previous blog post here) A member of the RTVS Tribe recently pointed out to me that the URL for the slides from the Auto ID website (http://autoid.mit.edu/cs/) was broken (thank you Mike!) – Here it is for your viewing pleasure: [slideshare id=2353219&doc=mitenterpriseforum0309final-091026200734-phpapp01] If you are interested in more slides on S3Edge software / approach to building[...]

Source: www.istockphoto.com In my last post, we talked about the top 5 critical factors to design for while deploying an enterprise wide real-time visibility system strategy with RFID. In this post, I will address what a ‘packaged’ application really means and the ‘Top 5’ characteristics to look for while choosing a packaged vendor A number of vendors on the market have announced “packaged” applications. Here are some ways to read through the marketing literature to understand the real level of[...]

Your management team comes to you one day and tasks you with figuring out what your enterprise-wide RFID roll-out strategy needs to look like 1, 3, and 5 years from now and the factors to optimize for in order to make it a core competitive differentiator for your organization. You’ve read all about RFID, are excited about the potential of the technology (viable and useful  technology that can help achieve near term tactical and longer term strategic goals of your[...]

Dear RTVS Tribe! It was recently brought to my notice that the video clips that I had worked on and uploaded for your viewing pleasure has pretty much disappeared given they were on MSN Soapbox [grrrr… so much for trying to stay Microsoft friendly, and I can tell you that no warning whatsoever was given to yours truly] So, I’ve created a couple of new clips, uploaded onto a new channel in YouTube – http://www.youtube.com/AllthingsRTVS – and ‘pressed’ the videos[...]

RFID has evolved into a key technology for tracking goods and assets around the world, and is becoming critical to an efficient supply chain. With the feature piece for the fall edition of the quarterly magazine – Keeping Track of your Assets – Lindsay James uncovers how RFID has evolved into a key technology for manufacturers with insights from S3Edge, Xterprise (a provider of custom /point solutions on the Microsoft platform for Retail), and a feature of the GKB Hi-Tech[...]

You are evaluating multiple options to deploy a scalable RFID system (hardware + software) for your enterprise – and all you come across are point solutions that are unable to articulate (or show) how the infrastructure that you are looking to deploy can be easily customized and evolve with your changing requirements over time…“Not to worry, we’ve got guys who can to take care of it” is the likely common refrain you hear…. A nagging question remains in the back[...]