With Pilots Moving to Enterprise Rollouts, OATSystems Debuts OATenterprise to RFID-enable Multiple Sites

Highly Scalable Capability for Deploying, Managing OAT’s RFID Solutions Across Even the Largest Enterprise Installations

WALTHAM, Mass. – April 1, 2008 – OATSystems today announced the immediate availability of OATenterprise, a highly scalable management platform that provides real-time RFID visibility for distributed operations while simplifying the management and deployment of all RFID solutions, from single-facility to the largest enterprise installations.

The new capability was driven by OAT’s customers, which are now rapidly moving from RFID pilots to company-wide rollouts spanning dozens to more than 1,000 sites.

Companies seeking to proactively manage their supply chains and manufacturing operations require a single view of critical processes across multiple facilities, divisions, continents and trading partners. OATenterprise provides a single dashboard for deploying, monitoring and optimizing processes, data, devices and workflow rules. Real-time process management enables companies to track orders, assets and equipment and, most importantly, to address exceptions at any stage of the process, at any location.

OATenterprise removes the barriers typically associated with implementations at more than one site or location. It is a "multi-site enabler,” providing OAT customers with full enterprise visibility and a variety of multiple-site capabilities, including:

• Managing enterprise-wide master data, devices and EPC numbers to avoiding overlapping or duplication across multiple sites.
• Enabling users to configure a device once then replicate at multiple facilities.
• Aggregating data from multiple and disparate sources into a single central database for further analysis and use with business intelligence applications.
• Configuring, managing and deploying RFID processes and workflows.
• Automatically distributing loads across available resources within a site.
• Monitoring devices and operations in real-time across the enterprise.
• Integrating with existing business systems.

With the above capabilities, OATenterprise enables companies to manage globally across multiple sites and act locally to improve operations. Individual facilities can now eliminate process errors preemptively before they propagate into their operations, where they become more costly to correct. While OATenterprise is engineered to meet the demands of large-scale operations, it also addresses the needs of early-stage implementations, supporting single-site infrastructures. Users can access all of this functionality through an easy-to-use Web interface, giving administrators a single point to manage and monitor enterprise-scale RFID deployments. It also goes beyond infrastructure and device management, enabling customers to provision business logic directly on edge devices, such as readers, controllers and local servers.

“Companies that are moving beyond pilots and looking to deploy RFID will benefit greatly from OATenterprise,” said Paul Cataldo, vice president of marketing for OATSystems. “We have customers that are beginning to roll out RFID solutions to an enormous number of sites. While OAT customers have always been able to manage multiple sites, OATenterprise requires far less time, cost and resources; it’s the ultimate, scalable RFID infrastructure that organizations won’t outgrow.”

OATenterprise is available immediately at no additional cost for OATSystems customers with enterprise-wide licenses.

About OATSystems, Inc.
OATSystems, Inc. is the recognized RFID solution leader with software that empowers businesses to achieve competitive advantage and ROI from radio-frequency identification (RFID) enabled applications. As a pioneer in developing RFID technology, OAT has been setting the standards in RFID for over half a decade and is responsible for industry firsts that include the largest scale and largest scope of deployments, as well as the most innovative approaches to providing enterprise-wide RFID solutions. OAT’s multinational client base consists of over 100 customers in retail, CPG, consumer electronics, manufacturing, life sciences, aerospace and defense. OAT is headquartered in Waltham, MA, and has a development office in Bangalore and various direct sales offices and resellers around the globe. To learn more about the company’s latest developments, visit www.oatsystems.com.

George Cohen (for OATSystems)            
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