OATSystems Announces 1st Flexible Architecture for RFID-Centric Business Process Innovation

Mitigates Risk, Enables Numerous Types of RFID-centric Business Processes

WALTHAM, Mass. - May 2, 2006 - OATSystems®,Inc., the recognized RFID framework leader, today announced OAT Foundation Suite 5.0 Flexible Architecture: the first RFID solution framework to implement best practice RFID applications and flexibly deploy them on any combination of readers, edge controllers, premises and enterprise servers. This flexibility is the key to enabling clients to mitigate the risk of locking their business processes into a single architecture approach and enables users to innovate new and more effective ways of implementing their RFID-enabled business processes.

"The ability to provision the same software seamlessly in solid-state on a reader or an appliance, while at the same time permitting traditional server deployments, is a break from the one-size-fits-all mold that has limited this industry," said Sanjay Sarma, Chief Technology Officer, OATSystems. "Our Flexible Architecture is the logical next generation solution from the fragmented and black box alternatives in the market today."

Making it easy for companies to implement RFID-enabled applications in an SOA environment and integrate with existing business applications, OATlogic 5.0 provides companies with a single, seamless design environment to manage all RFID-centric business processes across the various deployment options - devices, controllers, premises and enterprise servers. OATxpress 5.0 provides a library of best practice RFID applications, based on years of deployment expertise, which are pre-configured to run directly on different deployment options including devices that support IBM's WebSphere RFID Device Infrastructure (WRDI) such as Alien Technology, Arcom and many others. WRDI provides a standards-based, embedded environment for deploying distributed applications directly on readers and edge controllers.

"Firms must diagnose the impact of RFID deployments on existing IT systems," writes Christine Overby in the April 2006 Forrester Research report, Topic Overview: RFID. "To do so, they must rethink traditional business processes - mastering an 'exceptions driven' approach - and re-architect basic application, middleware, computing, storage, and networking platforms."

OATlogic 5.0 provides the following new capability:

  • Single, seamless RFID application design environment across all deployment options - device, edge controller, premises and enterprise servers
  • Graphical user interface with point and click to assign deployment locations for application primitives
  • Over 50 logical application primitives that are available for deployment on any device or server

OATxpress 5.0 provides the following new capability:

  • OATxpress best practice applications (shipping, receiving, pallet building, etc.) now run on IBM WebSphere RFID Device Infrastructure (WRDI) enabled devices
  • Remote provisioning with no manual device configuration required
  • User interface may run directly on WRDI devices minimizing network dependency

OAT Foundation Suite 5.0 Flexible Architecture will be demoed in the OATSystems booth #326 at RFID Journal Live in Las Vegas on May 1-3. OAT Foundation Suite 5.0 supports the following software platforms: IBM RFID Premises Server, SUN Solaris and Oracle, Red Hat Linux and PostgreSQL, Microsoft Windows and SQL Server.

About OAT
OATSystems, Inc. is the recognized RFID framework leader with software that empowers businesses to achieve competitive advantage from radio-frequency identification (RFID). As a pioneer in the development of RFID technology, OAT has been setting the standards in RFID for over half a decade and is responsible for industry firsts that include; the largest scale and largest scope of deployments, as well as the most innovative approaches to providing enterprise-wide RFID solutions. OAT's multinational client base consists of over 70 customers in retail, CPG, consumer electronics, manufacturing, life sciences, aerospace and defense. Headquartered in Waltham, MA, OAT has offices in Austin, Chicago, London, and Bangalore and is on the Web at www.oatsystems.com.