Enterprise mobility company Symbol Technologies, Inc.’s customer trials have begun (insert drum roll here).
The Holtsville, N.Y., vendor, specifically, is trying out its “Device Server Product Interface (DSPI),” which “allows Symbol’s XR400 series of RFID readers to directly connect to the forthcoming Microsoft BizTalk RFID technology.”
How does it work?
Via a seamless “out-of-the-box” connection between Symbol readers and BizTalk RFID. It’s easy, and eliminates stress in the long run for customers, says Symbol.
Symbol Technologies Helps Microsoft BizTalk RFID “Talk” RFID 2006-06-06 HOLTSVILLE, N.Y.
Symbol Technologies, Inc. (NYSE:SBL), The Enterprise Mobility Company, today announced that it has begun customer trials of its Device Server Provider Interface (DSPI) which allows Symbol’s XR400 series of RFID readers to directly connect to the forthcoming Microsoft BizTalk RFID technology.
By allowing seamless “out-of-the box” connection of Symbol XR400 RFID readers to BizTalk RFID, customers can focus directly on the business analytics that RFID can provide thus accelerating the implementation and reducing deployment costs. This solution represents another important step in Symbol’s ongoing strategy to provide complete, high-performance RFID systems that are easy-to-use, and designed for industrial scale deployments.
“Symbol and Microsoft share a similar vision to make RFID pervasive by easing its adoption by customers, software developers and system integrators,” said Anthony Bartolo, vice president and general manager of Symbol’s RFID and wireless infrastructure divisions. “As industry leaders in our respective fields, we continue to work closely together to improve products and help realize reduced total cost of ownership for our customers.”
Symbol’s XR400 RFID reader integrates high-performance reading capability with a high-speed Intel processor, extensive memory, and a Microsoft Windows CE-based programming environment to create an easy-to-use application processing platform. These capabilities allow the XR400 reader to not only read RFID data but help enable organizations to make real-time business decisions based on data and business processes. As RFID becomes more pervasive, the standard application interfaces provided by the XR400 including BizTalk RFID will allow customers to speed application development and leverage popular business logic tools to maximize the value of the collected RFID data across the organization.
“Microsoft and Symbol collaborated closely to ensure their best-in-class readers seamlessly integrate with the event and data management capabilities in BizTalk RFID,” said Burley Kawasaki, group product manager in the BizTalk Server product management group at Microsoft. “Symbol’s focus on creating RFID technologies that leverage industry-standard application and business logic interfaces will help our mutual customers capture and act on key RFID-driven events and data, thereby creating more efficient supply chain and retail business process solutions.” ![[end]](/resources/bullet/archive-4.gif)
