OATSystems Executives Take RFID Coast –to- Coast

WALTHAM, Mass. – March 21, 2005 – OATSystems®, Inc., the recognized RFID framework leader, today announced that OATSystems’ President, Chief Technology Officer and Vice President of Marketing have been asked to share their in-depth knowledge, experience and vision in RFID implementations with Tier 2 suppliers in Washington, DC, Palo Alto, CA, Chicago, Texas and Boston next month as demand for
best-practices heats up among the next wave of retailers and suppliers looking to adopt the technology.

Addressing audiences at seven thought leadership events designed to explore the lessons learned through their work with four of the ‘Wal-Mart 8’ and more than 50 other Fortune 1000 customers, Prasad Putta, Sanjay Sarma and Marc Osofsky will present on topics such as best practices using ‘real life’ examples, merging point-of-sale data with RFID data, the potential of the technology and its policy implications, and RFID in 2010.

“After working on live RFID implementations for over a year now, we’re starting to see some of the early adopters that took a ‘slap and ship’ approach to compliance now ripping out expensive, time-consuming projects because they realized that without capturing EPC data, they would never realize a return on investment,” said Marc Osofsky, vice president of marketing and product management at OATSystems.
“Because these setbacks cost the industry time, money and momentum, we hope to convey these lessons learned to the next wave of companies deploying RFID in hopes that they can avoid the pitfalls and put a foundation in place that accelerates the path to
ROI in RFID.”

OAT executives will present at the following upcoming events:

• U.S. Department of Commerce: April 6, Washington, D.C.
• Stanford University’s First Annual RFID Conference: April 6, Palo Alto, CA
• 2005 EPC Developers Conference: April 10, Chicago, IL
• RFID Live Chicago: April 10, Chicago, IL
• The Conference Board 2005 RFID Conference: May 3, Boston, MA
• American Society for Quality: May 18, Boston, MA
• U Connect Conference: June 7, Grapevine, TX

About OAT

OATSystems, Inc. is the recognized RFID framework leader with software that empowers businesses to achieve competitive advantage from radio-frequency identification (RFID). As pioneers in the development of RFID technology, OAT has been setting the standard in RFID for over half a decade and is responsible for industry firsts that include the largest scale and largest scope of deployments, as well as the most innovative approaches to providing enterprise-wide RFID solutions. OAT’s multinational
client base, which includes companies such as Hewlett-Packard and Gillette, consists of over 50 customers in retail, CPG, consumer electronics, manufacturing, life sciences, aerospace and defense. Headquartered in Waltham, MA, OAT has offices in Chicago, London and Bangalore and is on the Web at www.oatsystems.com.