CYBRA Corporation’s EdgeMagic Replaces IBM RFID Software Solution at Shop-Vac
YONKERS, NY — (Marketwire) — 10/23/08 — CYBRA Corporation (OTCBB: CYRP), the developer of award-winning MarkMagic (TM) Bar Code Labels, RFID Tags, and Electronic Forms Software for IBM Power Systems (formerly known as System i), today announced that Shop-Vac® Corporation, a Walmart top 600 vendor, has successfully deployed its EdgeMagic® RFID Control Software for IBM Power Systems at its Williamsport, Pennsylvania, manufacturing location and is currently in testing.
Shop-Vac Corporation, the recognized world leader in wet/dry vacuum cleaners, replaced an IBM WebSphere RFID Premises Server installation and selected EdgeMagic to track cases of vacuum cleaners and accessories destined for End Caps and other special point of sale programs of its trading partners such as Walmart.
According to Mike McConnell, Programmer Analyst at Shop-Vac, “When we first investigated RFID for EPC compliance there was no native IBM System i solution on the market. As a result we installed IBM WebSphere RFID Premises Server which does not run on the IBM midrange server. When I learned of CYBRA’s native solution I became convinced that EdgeMagic offered Shop-Vac a more fully functional System i implementation. We run Infor BPCS and Manhattan Associates Transportation Execution products on the IBM System i and EdgeMagic interfaces directly with these products. The EdgeMagic product supports Alien fixed readers, Symbol mobile readers, and Zebra RFID printers, the same hardware as WebSphere RFID Premises Server so by replacing the IBM product with the CYBRA product we gained a significant amount of flexibility particularly with regard to System i application software integration. EdgeMagic allows my team to add new functions with ease.”
According to Harold Brand, CEO of CYBRA, “EdgeMagic seamlessly integrates RFID technology with the core IBM Power Systems business applications that run the bread and butter of manufacturing and distribution worldwide. Moreover, it is the framework for turning process data into real time, actionable business information at the point of activity.”
Brand continues: “CYBRA recently conducted a survey of more than 500 System i shops to learn of their plans for RFID. When asked, ‘On which computing platform would you prefer RFID systems to be based?’ the response was 63% for System i and only 16% for Windows. Of customers who run their WMS (Warehouse Management Systems) on the System i, the numbers are dramatic: only 10% of System i WMS customers prefer to run their RFID systems on a Windows, Linux, or Unix platform, while 79% prefer the System i.”
Brand concludes: “System i customers overwhelmingly prefer the System i to PC for RFID for obvious reasons. The things that the System i excels at: generating EPC codes, printing RFID smart labels, generating manifests, defining business rules, and storing configurations are easier to manage on the System i because that’s where the order and product information is. Add the System i’s superior high availability, security, simplified systems management, and server consolidation, and long time System i customers see RFID as a business application that needs to be hosted on the same platform. Shop-Vac recognized this value and replaced the IBM WebSphere RFID Premises Server with EdgeMagic precisely because it runs on the IBM System i server.”
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