OAT Receives Reader's Choice Award for RFID Software And Customer Experience

Tech Vendors Deemed the Best by the Readers of Consumer Goods Technology

WALTHAM, Mass. - February 10, 2006 - OATSystems&reg, Inc., the recognized RFID framework leader, today announced that readers of Consumer Goods Technology Magazine voted the company at the top of the list for RFID software and customer experience.

According to the publication, over 150 consumer goods executives were asked to identify and rank the technology vendors they currently use, and rank their customer experience using each. Top 10 and top five lists were determined by a combined score of sheer number of votes weighed against customer experience ratings.

Within the Supply Chain Execution section, OAT ranked second for RFID Software Vendors. ABI analyst Erik Michielsen noted OAT's partnership with IBM as a way to address large-scale implementations now that consumer goods companies are expanding their RFID implementations, managing multiple sites and multiple geographic locations.

About OAT

OATSystems, Inc. is the recognized RFID framework leader with software that empowers businesses to achieve competitive advantage from radio-frequency identification (RFID). As pioneers in the development of RFID technology, OAT has been setting the standard 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, which includes companies such as Hewlett-Packard and Gillette, consists of over 50 customers in retail, CPG, consumer electronics, manufacturing, life sciences, aerospace and defense. Headquartered in Waltham, MA, OAT has offices in Chicago, London, San Francisco and Bangalore and is on the Web at www.oatsystems.com.