IBM Validates OATSystems for Retail

Validation Provides Best of Breed RFID Solutions for the Retail Industry

WALTHAM, Mass. - October 17, 2005 - OATSystems®, Inc., the recognized RFID framework leader, today announced that the OAT Foundation Suite has been validated on IBM's Retail Store Integration Framework. The validation follows IBM's RFID partnership announcement with OAT last month and enables the two companies to offer "best-of-breed" RFID solutions to retail customers quickly based on pre-tested and integrated solutions.

The IBM Store Integration Framework (SIF) enables retailers to quickly integrate IBM partner solutions into the On Demand Operating Environment. The IBM Innovation Centers help select IBM Business Partners port, migrate and test their retail store applications on IBM Store Integration Framework supported middleware products and platforms. OATSystems is the first RFID solution framework for retail validated by IBM.

The OAT Foundation Suite is made up of three components:

• OATxpress -- the software platform for capturing, filtering, and managing RFID data within a single facility, such as a distribution center, or retail store.

  OATlogic -- the industry's only extensible design environment for configuration of RFID-centric scenarios through a standard process-definition language. OATlogic minimizes TCO by replacing expensive custom development with simple configuration changes

• OATaxiom -- an RFID data management system with built-in adapters for trading partner data, a consistency engine that delivers a clean record of inventory and goods movement across the supply chain, and a robust analytics platform for business users.

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, San Francisco and Bangalore and is on the Web at www.oatsystems.com.