Microsoft, TCS, Make RFID Plans for India
Indian outsourcer Tata Consultancy Services is working to implement Microsoft’s BizTalk RFI technology.
The RFID partnership between TCS and Microsoft “comes as interest in the technology among businesses in the West is heating up,” says a report by Information Week.
The North American market for passive RFID readers totaled $23.1 million in 2006, according to market researchers at Frost & Sullivan. The group predicts that the market will grow to $241.6 million by 2013.
Meanwhile, TCS’s tie with Microsoft is the latest indication that Indian outsourcers are moving beyond basic application maintenance work in an effort to play in more lucrative emerging technology markets.
TCS launched its RFID practice in 2003 and in June 2005 the company opened a dedicated RFID technology center in Chicago.
Source : rfidnews.org
