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RFID is inseparable from Business
Process Management, Pt. 2
Issue #187 | April 9, 2009 | by Andy Kowl
Have you heard of BPM, Business Process Management? If so, maybe you can answer this question.
Business Process Management is a _______________________ .a) software system
b) discipline
c) conceptual approach
d) way of life
e) training or consulting someone is selling
f) none of the above
A number of people I met at the Info360 and On Demand
conferences in Philly last week talked of BPM as if it was either the
current or next big thing. The best I have been able to track is that
BPM probably became 'a thing' in the product literature of Microsoft
for their BizTalk Server suite of products. Other references place
BPM's history as starting earlier than that.
It is more jargon; that is indisputable. Of course, being jargon does not make it bad.
It is a fact that some form of business process management is in every successful RFID...
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Omnitrol
Networks moves to Santa Clara, Calif.

Omnitrol Networks, a leader
of real-time operational visibility, traceability and automation solutions,
announced this week the completion of its move to the new headquarters office
in Santa Clara, California.
Originally
based in Mountain View,
the company HQ has moved into a new state-of-the-art building providing a
spacious environment with infrastructure resources that meet the company's
current sales, marketing and engineering needs, and will accommodate its
future operational growth.
"As
the company is leading the development and deployment of the new convergent
application network, it is only logical to locate our head office in the
birth place of the networking industry, where so much innovation and
transformation has occurred," said David Orain, vice-president products
and marketing at Omnitrol Networks. Omnitrol has two other major development
sites in Ottawa, Canada
and New-Delhi, India
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New handlers for RFID Consortium’s
patent pool

Alexandria, VA, April 7, 2009 — Sisvel US and the RFID Consortium today announced
that Sisvel will administer the Consortium’s ultra-high frequency radio
frequency identification (UHF RFID) patent licensing program. The Sisvel Group has more
than 70 licensing professionals operating from offices in the U. S., Germany,
Hong Kong, Italy,
and Japan.
The members of the RFID Consortium are companies that have developed RFID
technologies and hold patents essential to EPCglobal and ISO/IEC standards for UHF RFID. Sisvel
and the RFID Consortium are finalizing plans to launch the new UHF RFID
licensing program in the second quarter of this year. “The UHF RFID patent licensing program benefits both
licensors and licensees, and we are committed to advancing this thoroughly and
quickly, to support the growing RFID market,” said Giustino de Sanctis,
Chairman of Sisvel US. “This program will make it easier for
leaders in the RFID industry to adopt the technology and acquire the related
patent licenses under fair, reasonable, and non-discriminatory terms and
conditions.”
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