IBM Builds Momentum for Open Standards-Based RFID Ecosystem

"Rallying the industry to support a RFID ecosystem based on open standards, IBM recently announced new partnerships and standards-based solutions aimed at helping customers build on demand businesses. The announcement continues IBM's push to help customers use RFID technologies to automate business processes to gain real-time visibility of items in a supply chain, efficiently manage assets, and improve customer service. Underscoring the company's effort to accelerate industry adoption of RFID technologies, the new solutions are based on IBM WebSphere RFID middleware and services supported by a Service Oriented Architecture, SOA. The architecture offers a J2EE and J2ME based application environment that provide small, mid-sized and large businesses the flexibility to integrate information with custom third-party business process applications and free customers from relying upon any single information technology vendor." Source: wirelessdesignasia.com