How to Integrate RFID Data Without Disrupting Your Business
Seven strategies to get your RFID data and business applications working together efficiently and productively.
By John Edwards
Feb. 1, 2012— Getting a radio frequency identification system to gather lots of data isn't particularly hard. The real challenge arises when it's time to put that collected information to work.
Integrating RFID-generated data into business applications so that essential information can be viewed, analyzed, applied and presented to end users is often far more difficult than assembling the data. Since RFID is used in diverse ways by a wide variety of organizations and with many different applications, it's impossible to create a single, all-purpose RFID data-integration strategy. This leads many businesses to develop unique integration concepts and tools, or to adopt an amalgamation of approaches used by other organizations.
Sometimes, an adopter is fortunate, and fit-like-a-glove data integration is achieved on time and within budget. Too often, however, businesses find themselves coping with a system that resembles the lead character in a science-fiction movie: a creature both weird and dysfunctional. Even worse, the overdue and over-budget creation runs about as well as a 1972 Ford Gran Torino with a Subaru three-cylinder engine.
Feb. 1, 2012— Getting a radio frequency identification system to gather lots of data isn't particularly hard. The real challenge arises when it's time to put that collected information to work.
Integrating RFID-generated data into business applications so that essential information can be viewed, analyzed, applied and presented to end users is often far more difficult than assembling the data. Since RFID is used in diverse ways by a wide variety of organizations and with many different applications, it's impossible to create a single, all-purpose RFID data-integration strategy. This leads many businesses to develop unique integration concepts and tools, or to adopt an amalgamation of approaches used by other organizations.
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