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Sr, Program Manager at Microsoft and MBA from UNC Chapel Hill.My small world includes my beautiful wife Swati and our awesome twin boyz Arni and Abhi.
Gartner released its Magic Quadrant for Application Infrastructure for Back-End Application Integration Projects and BizTalk Server is in leader quadrant. This is great news for Microsoft and our Customers.
Back-end application integration technology providers continue to consolidate as users expand and increase the complexity and sophistication of their service-oriented-architecture-driven and software-as-a-service-driven integration requirements.
Additionally the report highlights strengths of BizTalk Server as
Magic Quadrant for Application Infrastructure for Back-End Application Integration Projects
Worldwide Director of CRM, ERP and Supply Chain Solutions at Microsoft Colin Masson wrote a great article on Sensor Enabling Supply Chains with RFID 2.0. It is a great read and also highlights great work and thought leadership by S3 Edge. Colin writes...
In launching our blog, I introduced 10 Megatrends I saw shaping future supply chain investments. One of those was “Sensor Enabling Supply Chains”, and while I wasn’t just referring to RFID, I want to draw everyone’s attention to our recent introduction of Mobile support for BizTalk RFID, and some innovative work demonstrating this capability at the Gartner AADI Conference earlier this week. What was particularly exciting about this demonstration by the Microsoft BizTalk RFID team and S3Edge, was how on-premise RFID captured on premise, was made available in the ‘Cloud’ for multi-enterprise visibility, analysis and collaboration. I posed a few questions to Anush Kumar of S3Edge about what they are describing as RFID 2.0, and the role they see the Microsoft Cloud (Windows Azure) playing in “Real Time Visibility Solutions”:
Supply Chain : Sensor Enabling Supply Chains with RFID 2.0
Our first BizTalk RFID mobile case study went live recently. Following is snapshot and link to detailed case study.
With 10 stores in India and plans for dozens more, RiteCare Pharmacy (India) wanted to make its warehouse operations more efficient before launching its next growth phase. As part of that process, RiteCare wanted to reduce the time required to fulfill store orders, increase order accuracy, reduce warehouse space requirements, and make it easier for workers to locate products. To address those needs, the company chose the S3Edge RTVS™ solution suite for Warehouse Visibility that includes Microsoft® BizTalk® RFID Mobile and Microsoft BizTalk Server 2006 R2. This solution optimizes the placement, retrieval, and flow of products throughout the warehouse and provides real-time visibility of all warehouse operations. As a result, RiteCare cut its order fulfillment time in half, reduced inventory by 60 percent, and increased the accuracy of fulfilling store orders to 97 percent.
Microsoft Case Studies: RiteCare Pharmacy
Mark Simms our Field Program Manager has been working closely with various hardware partners. He is has started providing guidance on how to build end to end solution with various hardware devices and BizTalk. It is detailed guidance and should help anyone to get started in no time. :) Please provide Mark feedback on his detailed post
Hands on: Building an End to End Solution with Biztalk RFID and the Alien 9650 (Part 1)
Good luck.
BizTalk RFID Mobile provides a mobile RFID platform for Windows CE and Windows Mobile. You can read more about BizTalk RFID Mobile here. We now have following providers(drivers) available. We will update the post with more providers very soon.
Motorola: http://support.symbol.com/support/search.do?cmd=displayKC&docType=kc&externalId=11855&sliceId=&dialogID=1696991&stateId=0%200%201694634
Intermec: http://home.intermec.com/eprise/main/GSS/Service/Content/Downloads/Show_DownloadSearchResults?Product=RFIDIP30A
Cathexis: http://www.cathexis.com/about-cathexis/partners/biztalk-rfid.aspx
Unitech: http://w3.adc.unitech.com.tw/pub/cs/SDK/RFID/unitechProvider.zip
Hope these links are helpful. Leave us a note and tell us which other devices you need providers(drivers) for. We would like to get some feedback on devices you use. Thanks
Following are few key links to BizTalk RFID Resources
Sites:
Microsoft Blogs:
Partners Blogs:
Community Project:
Video Channels:
Download Links for Products(Mobile Launch):
Yahoo Groups:
Linked In Group: