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February 09, 2006
RFID-Oriented BI Tools
Though more and more companies are leveraging radio frequency identification (RFID) for business intelligence (BI) purposes, there is a shortage of BI tools for mining RFID data, according to Keith Gile, research director at Forrester Research Inc. RFID uses radio frequency waves to transmit data from a tag mounted on an item, back to a transponder and database for processing. Though various researches and surveys are predicting increased spending for BI in the coming years, there is not much being done to develop RFID-oriented BI tools. The reason why vendors are not rising to the RFID challenge is probably because they do not have the technology to do so. Successfully linking RFID and BI entails leveraging intellectual property about manufacturing and supply chains that these vendors probably don't have, explained Gile. But things are looking up, with Business Objects being in the process of building relationships with partners that are heavily involved with RFID, according to Russ Hill, director of worldwide consumer packaged goods and retail marketing.
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