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RFID Middleware: Opportunities
and Pitfalls in Software

Shawn Willett
Research Director, Application Infrastructure

September 27, 2005

The customer adoption of RFID is increasing, primarily driven by mandates from Wal-Mart, The Department of Defense and others. While hardware vendors begin to offer increasingly commoditized products, it is in software that the real value may lie. In particular, the middleware layer promises to form a platform for next generation applications.

In this telebriefing replay from Current Analysis, Shawn Willett, Research Director, Application Infrastructure, reviews the opportunities in RFID middleware, including how technology and products will evolve, how traditional players and start ups will get into the act, and what use cases will likely pop up first. Some of the questions covered in the telebriefing include:

  • How does current RFID middleware work and are new technologies needed to exploit RFID data?
  • How can process tools help build new RFID applications?
  • How will big players and small players fit into this market?
  • What are the new industries and use cases where RFID applications will appear next?
  • What are the pitfalls in the market for both users and vendors?


Telebriefing Contents

- Introduction
- RFID Middleware
- RFID Essentials
- Market Drivers, Market Inhibitors
- Software Possibilities
- Software Possibilities
- Top Markets For RFID
- Why Middleware Is The Sweet Spot
- RFID Middleware Basics: Vendor Landscape
- RFID Marketshare
- Middleware: Technology landscape
- RFID Middleware
- Edge Middleware
- While ALE is important
- Above the Edge
- Above the Edge: Complex Event Processing?
- Process Oriented Middleware
- Process Oriented Middleware
- Process Applications: BAM
- Vertical Process Application Solutions
- B2B Middleware
- RFID Middleware: Who Is Best Suited? - Integration Vendors
- RFID Middleware: Who Is Best Suited? - Application Infrastructure Vendors
- RFID Middleware: Who Is Best Suited? - Application Vendors
- RFID Middleware: Who Is Best Suited? - Database/Data Warehouse Vendors
- RFID Middleware: Who Is Best Suited? - Dark Horses
- RFID Middleware: Who Is Best Suited? - Specialty RFID middleware or hardware vendors



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