IBM Adds New RFID Services and Software to Its RFID Portfolio

Internal IBM RFID Implementation Also Announced Alongside Opening of New RFID Test Center in Ireland

28 Feb 2006: 

IBM announced the addition of new radio frequency identification (RFID) services and software to its expansive RFID portfolio.

IBM announced a new RFID service for asset tracking. The IBM RFID Solution for Asset Tracking can aid companies in their critical resource tracking and security endeavors, and in their efforts to comply with Sarbanes-Oxley requirements. Its benefits range from tracking military equipment in the field to transporting hazardous materials.

Also announced is an upgrade to its IBM WebSphere Premises Server for companies with heavy tagging traffic and high-value items. This high-performance software enables tagging items at manufacturing line speeds. Version 1.1 is scalable software that gives customers remote deployment, a distributed architecture as well as central management.

Customers running the new software in a service-oriented architecture (SOA) can more closely align RFID to business goals and objectives. In a SOA, information from RFID chips including inventory, shipping and billing can be instantaneously distributed across a customer's IT infrastructure as well as externally with partners or suppliers.

"With these new offerings IBM is taking important steps forward in RFID," said Eric Gabrielson, director, worldwide RFID solutions, IBM. "IBM is continuously building in RFID, both in the functionality of our software and services that take RFID in new directions."