BOSTON, June 26 /PRNewswire/ -- According to a new AberdeenGroup research report, 50% of enterprises report that they will have anywhere between 2 and 10 of their manufacturing sites RFID-enabled by 2008. The planned growth is forcing companies to create strategies to better integrate RFID technologies into their overall Enterprise technical infrastructure."The RFID Benchmark Series: Scaling RFID Implementations from Pilot to Production," report finds that over half of the manufacturers surveyed have automated or will automate their RFID tagging processes in the next 24 months by integrating with manufacturing execution and material handling systems, as well as Programmable Logic Controllers (PLC).

BOSTON, June 26 /PRNewswire/ -- According to a new AberdeenGroup research report, 50% of enterprises report that they will have anywhere between 2 and 10 of their manufacturing sites RFID-enabled by 2008. The planned growth is forcing companies to create strategies to better integrate RFID technologies into their overall Enterprise technical infrastructure.

"The RFID Benchmark Series: Scaling RFID Implementations from Pilot to Production," report finds that over half of the manufacturers surveyed have automated or will automate their RFID tagging processes in the next 24 months by integrating with manufacturing execution and material handling systems, as well as Programmable Logic Controllers (PLC).

"For the first time, reliability of RFID technology trumped cost as the leading consideration in RFID technology selection," says John Fontanella, Sr. VP of Research, "That tells me companies expect RFID to be an integral part of operations going into the future."

Key findings in the research, underwritten by BEA Systems, Odin Technologies, Reva Systems, and Xterprise, Inc., demonstrate the challenges of scaling up RFID implementations and also how companies overcome them are:

   * RFID Middleware is evolving.  An increasing number of companies plan on     using network appliances and smart readers to manage RFID technology     and administrative processes.    * Survey participants most aggressively adopting the RFID agree that     scalability and interoperability with other enterprise technologies was     crucial to its expanded use.    Points to ponder for RFID data integration:    * Don't allow RFID implementations to become islands of technology and     information.    * Conducting business with data collected by sensory technologies and     mobile devices will soon become ubiquitous in the enterprise. Use RFID     strategies as the first step in planning how edge technologies will be     integrated into the enterprise.    To download a complimentary copy of the report, follow this link:   http://www.aberdeen.com/link/source.asp?cid=3149&pid=PR062606    About AberdeenGroup, Inc.  

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   Contact:   John Fontanella, AberdeenGroup   617-854-5264   john.fontanella@aberdeen.com  

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