Another BizTalk Mobile Case study is live.

Score Group plc wanted to streamline a paper-based process that employees use to track valve-inspection information. The solution needed to be portable and easy to use by both employees in warehouses and personnel in rugged, offshore environments. The company addressed its challenges by using a radio frequency identification (RFID) solution built with Microsoft® BizTalk® RFID Mobile and Windows Mobile® devices. Microsoft Gold Certified Partner IDBLUE helped to design and deploy the solution in just three months. The new automated system has reduced valve-inspection times and helped to improve employee productivity in the office—both by 5 to 15 percent. In addition, the solution promotes greater levels of data accuracy and is flexible and scalable so that Score Group can adapt it to support additional corporate locations and to provide for automated billing.

Microsoft Case Studies: Score Group plc

I had written a post on what is Photosynth few months back(Photosynth- Different way of looking at photo albums). Today I saw CNN promoting photosynth for "The Moment" campaign as part of their inaugural day coverage. :) It is great to see new Microsoft technology hitting prime time.

More about The Moment at CNN: http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2009/44.president/inauguration/themoment/

We are hosting a RFID conference in UK. Please read below for abstract and register.

Welcome to the Microsoft RFID Conference! We are excited to host you at this first annual congregation comprised of partners, customers, and Microsoft industry leaders to be held on February 25th, 2009 at the Microsoft Campus in Reading on the most comprehensive, integrated real-time enterprise solutions platform in the industry today – BizTalk RFID. The conference is expected to draw approximately 100+ senior industry executives, and will provide attendees with a detailed, in-depth look into:

• Real-time software solutions for enterprise deployments, across verticals
• Business value driven by RFID solutions with focus on performance, ROI and costs reduction
• Cross Industry-Priority solution efforts at Microsoft that will utilize RFID and sensor data to deliver efficiencies for a People-Ready business across the value chain
• Microsoft’s platform vision, deliverables, and roadmap for RFID and Sensor based solutions

UK RFID Conference 2009

Retail experience center is an amazing retail store environment created by Microsoft. I was involved in this initiative from early phases. We are showcasing multiple RFID enabled process inside the store. Starting from back store receiving location where items get tagged, store inventory is tracked and finally RFID enabled POS system helps expedite check out process. There are multiple other RFId processes and we will be adding lot more scenarios. Following is more info from Microsoft official press pass.

Located at Microsoft Corp.’s headquarters in Redmond, Wash., the Microsoft Retail Experience Center is a private, 20,000-square-foot facility housing a fully functioning, interactive store environment, from point of service to receiving dock.

Located at Microsoft Corp.’s headquarters in Redmond, Wash., the Microsoft Retail Experience Center is a private, 20,000-square-foot facility housing a fully functioning, interactive store environment, from point of service to receiving dock.
The Retail Experience Center features in-store displays of Microsoft consumer products and showcases powerful ways to help cut costs, create efficiencies, streamline operations, and promote and sell goods − within the aisles, in the employee break room, at receiving and shipping, at checkout, across the Web, and even at home or on the go.

PhotoSynth created by Tim Gruver

Retail Experience Center Videos

Dave Friedlos from RFID Journal has written a great article on Sure Reach.Sure Reach has deployed RFID enabled records management systems based on BizTalk RFID. HP is the global partners who has made this happen. :)

Sure-Reach has attached EPC Gen 2 tags to 1.1 million documents, making the Malaysian firm more efficient and better able to locate and inventory its clients' records.

A Malaysian records-management company is employing radio frequency identification to track more than 1 million paper documents and 500,000 cartons.
Sure-Reach, which stores its clients' records, is using ultrahigh-frequency (UHF) EPC Gen 2 tags at its warehouse in Shah Alam, near Kuala Lumpur, to track the documents throughout the facility, and to improve the process of taking inventory.

Tagged documents and boxes are identified as they enter or leave Sure-Reach's warehouse in Shah Alam.

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