Shipcom Announces Its RFID/EPC Solution Center
1 August, 2004

HOUSTON, Jan 08, 2004 /PR Newswire via COMTEX/ -- Shipcom Wireless Inc., a leading global provider of enterprise RFID, mobility, supply chain automation, and business process modeling solutions announces the addition of its RFID Solution Center. The Houston based RFID laboratory was established to help companies understand how to plan, install and deploy these mission-critical solutions without compromising the performance of their existing enterprise applications.
Shipcom also announces an RFID Fixed Time - Fixed Price Pilot program designed to address the need for integrating long term EPC compliant RFID technology quickly and seamlessly from the point of data capture through back- end ERP, Supply Chain, and legacy systems with minimal risk and cost. This deployment model enables organizations to assess the challenges of large-scale deployments while demonstrating the ability to quickly generate a rapid ROI as well as protecting their current investment in applications vital to the day- to-day operations of their businesses.
"Due to the overwhelming response of our participation at the Wal-Mart Expo in November and the Department of Defense initiative our customers have been requesting an environment to model and emulate their business scenarios while providing access to multiple readers as well as integration to various back-end systems such as SAP, Oracle, and Siebel, all of which are needed to fully demonstrate a complete end to end RFID solution," says Abeezar Tyebji, CEO and President of Shipcom. "Many RFID companies offer 'middleware' to just aggregate reads, or co-ordinate readers or simply smooth data. Although we do that as well, Shipcom's CATAMARAN RFID software goes much further in that it integrates with disparate enterprise systems to generate true operational usefulness. And because of our architecture no one can deploy an end to end RFID solution more quickly and reliably than Shipcom."

CATAMARAN RFID solution provides:

• Backend integration connectors to disparate systems
• Complete Business Process Modeling and Workflow Management
• Detailed Documentation and a Robust Reporting Module
• Multi-reader Management
• Alerting to Mobile Devices and Light Banks
  
  About Shipcom Wireless
  Shipcom Wireless Inc. is the leading global provider of enterprise RFID, mobility, supply chain automation, and business process modeling solutions. It's CATAMARAN framework easily allows the capture of enterprise critical RFID, bar code, or keyed data to enable back-end systems such as Siebel, SAP, Oracle and MFGPro to RFID, WAP, Windows CE and Palm OS based devices. Shipcom has several large Fortune 1000 referenceable customers worldwide such as Philips, Siemens, Shell, Johnson and Johnson, British America Tobacco, HP, Sempra Utilities, Waters Corporation, Amersham Health and Medtronic Minimed. For more information please visit our website at http://www.shipcomwireless.com/ . or call us at 281-558-5252.
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