Posted on Wednesday, April 30th, 2008 at 1:57 pm
AMR Research: RFID Adoption’s Tipping Point is Here
RFID Update
AMR Research analyst John Fontanella issued a briefing this past weekend proclaiming that RFID adoption has quietly crossed a threshold that many industry observers have been impatiently anticipating for the last few years: the tipping point.
Fundamentally, Fontanella argues that because projected RFID adoption from the Wal-Mart mandate never materialized, vendors were forced to explore other possibilities for the technology. “When the industry realized that the enormous demand from Wal-Mart was not going to be the case, the idea of innovation kicked in,” explained Fontanella. “Vendors said to themselves, ‘Let’s see what problems in the enterprise we can solve with this technology.’ That sent vendors looking for opportunities.”
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