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Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology is changing how enterprises track and control their physical goods and assets. Manufacturers of everything from consumer goods and pharmaceuticals to automotive and aerospace products—as well as retailers, transportation and logistics companies, and governments—are discovering the benefits of associating unique identifiers such as the Electronic Product Code (EPC) with physical objects, and tracking their movement and condition using RFID and other sensor technologies. This article highlights the approaches to exploit RFID to the brim wading through the technical challenges that arises in the process of implementing it.

Software AG made headlines recently with its acquisition of webMethods for USD 546 million. Since the announcement came to light, speculations have been circulating on how this move may change the SOA landscape, how the companies are going to deal with overlapping offerings and culture clashes. SDA sat down with Software AG’s Ive Totev, Member for the Extended Executive board and Vice President of Crossvision Product Marketing to clear the air whilst and got the latest scoop the future of the Software AG-webMethods merger and ultimately the future of SOA.

Most of us are now so dependent on e-mail for day-to-day operational efficiency that life without it seems impossible to contemplate. However, while many have reaped the benefits of company-wide electronic messaging systems, an alarmingly small number of companies have dedicated executive attention to the management issues, corporate responsibility and risks surrounding such dependency on e-mail communications. But with changes in legislative and reporting requirements in the U.S. likely to be mirrored in Asia Pacific, issues of e-mail storage and management are set to become one of the most important business critical issues facing the senior management team. Companies which fail to implement a robust e-mail management policy will expose themselves to legal and financial risks which could cripple them.

The reasons why most IT Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) industries fail to bag a large contract are lack of focus area and failure to nderstand the main challenges the companies face. This article discusses the best practices that offshore software and IT services companies should follow to break into the European markets.

Enterprises are using mobile applications in increasing numbers to improve business agility and performance. Information captured and delivered at the edges of the enterprise extends the reach of enterprise applications to the ‘point of use’, thus enabling faster, more informed decisions and actions. In the past, mobile interactions tended to be siloed and disjointed from the enterprise’s information network. But today, the seamless extension of enterprise mobility is an essential tool for improving productivity. To successfully deliver on the vision of a fully mobilised work force, enterprises require an architecture and strategy that incorporates mobility as an intrinsic extension of the enterprise infrastructure.

An everyday problem in growing cities is the ever growing heavy traffic condition that has resulted from improper planning of cities. To address this problem and to improve safety on the roads and reduce air pollution, it is important that cities are equipped with an effective traffic monitoring solution. This article examines the use of open source platform from java.net to create a realtime traffic monitoring system.

The phrase “service-oriented architectures” (SOA) is frequently – and hotly – discussed in the software application development side of the information technology (IT) industry. According to at least one analyst firm, the debate is “reaching the heights of hyperbole”. Despite this, the British analyst Butler Group says that SOA, defined as architecture aimed at achieving loose coupling among interacting software agents-services, is gaining ground – and causing confusion. The confusion is the result of a perception that SOA is simply part of implementing Web services. This view is too narrow and organisations are advised to consider a SOA, whether or not they intend to provide or consume Web services.

Businesses today must be able to embrace changing markets faster than their competitors, without being limited by their technology infrastructure. The ability to ensure rapid implementation of new and existing applications to meet new business demands is the key. Traditional webbased graphical user interfaces (GUISs) are generally unable to meet demanding performance levels that involve a high user interactivity level and frequent screen updates. To achieve this type of application need, most enterprises still rely on fat-client or rich-client applications using Java-Swing, Delphi, Visual Basic, C++ and other languages. Ajax technology is one way to achieve an RIA (Rich Internet Applications). This article clears some the misconceptions surrounding Ajax technology and the practical functionality it has over older and outdated languages.