Xterprise Announces Most Comprehensive RFID AnalytiX™ Product in the Market

Dallas, TX (ContentDesk) April 20, 2006 -- AnalytiX is a data analytics product targeted to assist retail suppliers shipping RFID products to Wal-Mart and other retailers by monitoring and quantifying the benefits of using RFID within retail supply chains.Unlike other RFID analytics offerings in the market, Xterprises AnalytiX product provides the most innovative user interface, the richest retail RFID analytics available in the market and the first of its kind monitoring of production source tagging solution performance. The product is fully compatible with Wal-Marts Retail Link as well as many Enterprise Systems data interfaces such as SAP.Xterprise is currently working with members of the Wal-Mart top100 in pilots and will demonstrate the product at both the EPC Technology Expo/Wal-Mart supplier forum (Dallas, April 25-26) and RFID Journal Live (Las Vegas, May 1-3).RFID AnalytiX is being launched under three deployment models:" Traditional License - for those customers who are already shipping RFID tagged product to retailers and are ready to start turning the sea of data into valuableinformation a site license of the application can be purchased" Software-As-A-Service - Customers can also purchase the benefits of the application by entering into a 1 year or 2 year professional services engagement and drive the same value through this alternative deployment model." Pre-Start pilot program - for suppliers who have not begun sending RFID tagged product to retailers.The innovative pre-start pilot is a turnkey offering for suppliers who want to measure the true opportunity value that tagging product for Wal-Mart provides. Under pre-start model, Xterprise will help label a number of full pallets of product and then use AnalytiX to watch tagged product move through Wal-Mart supply chain. The resultantinformation provides definitive data on where the opportunity is for tagging product to reduce out of stocks at retailers and what source tagging level would best drive value for the company.Through our discussions with retail suppliers over the last three years, one thing is clear: they do not know what really happens in the last 100 feet of a Wal-Mart store and that makes it very difficult to determine what is the correct RFID source tagging strategy and how much sales could be generated by tagging product, stated Dean Frew, Xterprise President and CEO. We developed AnalytiX and this Pre-Start program so that we can help our clients manage through these questions by using AnalytiX generated facts.

A common example of the products value is when we show data that determines the promotional product inventory is not being replenished efficiently and helping merchandisers better estimate sale lost due to supply chain inefficiencies.AnalytiX is a supply chain application built on top of the most recent SQL Server platform, SQL Server 2005. It leverages the new Integration Services toolset to extract and meaningfully transform raw data from any number of internal, retailer or other external data sources into a clean, consistent and coherent data warehouse. The AnalytiX data warehouse is closely monitored and maintained to ensure data quality. It is continuously updated to reflect changes in the RFID landscape and supply chain processes.The AnalytiX product leverages the new Reporting Services toolset to deliver a comprehensive set of standard and ad hoc reports. In addition it utilizes the new Analysis Services to provide powerful OLAP reporting capabilities.

All of this reporting functionality can be securely accessed via an intuitive, easy to use, web based portal.Nearly every customer we talk with is trying, with little success, to use the RFID read data to create competitive advantage in the marketplace. Our team has built the AnalytiX product to address these broad reaching market needs, said Steve Hall, Xterprise SVP of Global Sales. The initial response from clients when they see the product has been extremely positive.About Xterprise -- Xterprise Incorporated, an industry leading developer of Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) supply chain solutions is the RFID solution provider for many of the worlds most respected supply chains and fastest growing companies.Xterprise is known for understanding the complex business problems their customers need solved and then using ground-breaking technology to create those solutions.Xterprise takes pride in the ability to merge best practices, supply chain processes, material handling, system hardware and RFID Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) application software, enterprise systems integration, data analytics, demand signaling applications and remote solution support.With clients in Asia, Europe, and throughout North America, the worldwide headquarters for Xterprise is located in Carrollton, TX. For more information, call 972-690-9460, ext. 300 or visit the website at www.xterprise.com