The Power of Holistic Partner Fusion in Today’s RFID Market

Defining RFID Partnerships 3.0 and Select Case Studies in Partner Ecosystem Excellence

Research Report

In today’s value chain, can RFID and complementary technology partners achieve a level of fusion beyond simple linkage? The long-awaited answer to this question is beginning to take shape as an increasing number of users across industries move toward wider RFID deployment. In today’s market, partner collaborative approaches are keenly focused on providing customers with an attractive means to embrace and deploy true value-add end-to-end solutions. The individual solution components and core competencies among the vendors and integrators within these partner groupings significantly complement one another, as do their overall strategies. They represent what ABI Research describes as the next stage in RFID partner ecosystem development: holistic partner fusion, or "RFID Partnerships 3.0."

While there are multiple examples of holistic partner fusion that exist, the three specific partner groupings discussed in this Research Report include:
• Wavetrend Technologies, System Planning Corporation (SPC), and KeyTone Technologies
• Microsoft, Motorola, and Xterprise
• Impinj and ChronoTrack Systems