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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 as well as sales offices throughout North America and Europe.

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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