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Sep 09, 2008

S3 Edge Announces Ex-Microsoft RFID Business Leader as New CTO, Expands Management Team
Source: Wall Street Journal

DREAM VALLEY, HYDERABAD, India, Sept 09, 2008 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- S3 Edge Software, a Microsoft Partner and provider of Real Time Visibility (RTVS) solutions utilizing RFID and real-time technologies, today announced the appointment of Anush Kumar as its Chief Technology Officer with added responsibility for Strategy and Business Development. Kumar joins S3 following a distinguished career at Microsoft, where he worked on multiple incubations from concept to shipping, the latest of which was the BizTalk RFID platform, a plug and play infrastructure for building scalable RFID solutions. Anush was heavily involved in the early efforts around design and architecture of the Microsoft BizTalk RFID product in addition to building and managing a rich partner eco-system, working with early adopter customers and industry organizations such as EPC Global.
 
Prior to working on the RFID platform, Anush worked on the business rules engine for Microsoft BizTalk Server, technology that has been deployed by several enterprise customers to improve agility and increase efficiency of their business processes.
"S3 is undergoing extraordinary growth across all facets of the business, making this the right time for us to build out our executive team with leaders who can help propel our company to the next stage of its growth," said Ram Venkatesh, CEO, S3 Edge. "With the addition of Anush to our management team, S3 gains a widely-respected business leader in the RFID space - We are extremely excited in having Anush as part of our core team," mused Ram.
 
"S3 is a key Microsoft BizTalk RFID partner developing innovative solutions that address real-world needs of the Connected Enterprise," said Burley Kawasaki, director product management for Connected Systems Division at Microsoft. "Partners are critical to delivering end-to-end, complete solutions for customers on the Microsoft BizTalk RFID platform."
 
About S3 Edge
S3 was founded in 2007 by a team of pioneers with rich and diverse expertise in RFID, mission-critical enterprise software, and the Microsoft platform. They have a proven track record with deep industry experience including Microsoft, Computer Associates, and Amazon.com. They are passionate about fulfilling the vision of RFID to change the way businesses understand the physical world, and the enormous business potential of innovative solutions that deliver on the promise of real-time visibility. S3 Edge's RTVS (Real Time Visibility Systems) suite of applications, built on Microsoft BizTalk Server RFID, defines a new class of solutions for business process change driven by real-world visibility.
To get more information about how the S3 RTVS portfolio of solutions enable significant improvements to your business processes in a rapid manner, please visit us at http://www.s3edge.com/ or send us an e-mail at info@s3edge.com.

 
 

To get more information about how the S3 RTVS portfolio of solutions enable significant improvements to your business processes in a rapid manner without having to invest heavily upfront, please e-mail us at info@s3edge.com.

 
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"S3Edge is a key partner in developing packaged solutions that fully utilize the capabilities of the Microsoft BizTalk RFID platforms to address real-world customer need. Their Spotlight product is a good example of how partners are innovating to deliver complete end-to-end solutions for customers on the Microsoft Application Platform, across the globe"

Sudhir Hasbe

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"S3Edge's commitment to quality, flexibility, and RFID domain expertise in deploying enterprise-ready software in an operationally challenging environment using a variety of devices, is second to none. Their approach to deploying a scalable Real-Time Visibility & Control System has allowed us to take a complex, emerging technology and convert it into a competitive advantage for our business and customers"

James Chan
General Manager

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S3 Edge's RTVS capabilities enabled RiteCare Pharmacy to envision, design and implement game-changing business processes. The S3 Edge RTVS software built on Microsoft BizTalk platform has enabled us to cut down our cycle times to ship by 50%, eliminate errors due to mis-ships, and double our throughput times. This innovative real-time visibility platform for warehouse ensures RiteCare can now scale rapidly in the future to fulfill our promise of a quality pharmacy in every neighborhood with wide variety of medicines.

Seshu Guddanti
Managing Director of RiteCare

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S3Edge has helped Motorola take our partnership with Microsoft BizTalk RFID to the next level.

Matt Eschbach
Global Strategic Alliance Manager
Motorola Enterprise Mobility Business

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S3 Edge’s unique capabilities and deep understanding of Microsoft’s Mobile RFID platform was crucial in deploying a turnkey solution at RiteCare pharmacy for warehouse visibility – their ability to go from design to fully operational in 60-90 days at the customer site is a testament of their abilities to show demonstrable ROI and lower the barrier to rapid solution deployment.

Judy Huang
Product Manager RFID
Unitech Electronics Co., LTD

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S3 Edge is our most preferred RFID technical partner

Kian NG
SOA, Process Platform & RFID Solutions Sales - ASIA Lead
Microsoft Asia Pacific

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The S3Edge's RTVS based WiP (work in process) solution delivered on the promise of real visibility, real time in record time to enable GKB (Carl Zeiss Vision JV partner) to continue to raise the bar in the level of service .The WIP solution was delivered at ZEISS Brand Lab at Goa (a Carl Zeiss "Star One" accredited lab). In addition to enabling fewer delayed orders, and a multi-fold increase in customer satisfaction with a RFID based solution on the manufacturing floor, S3 is also closely working with us on designing innovative solution for our retail stores in India to further increase our customer value.

Manish Soni
General Manager
GKB Hi-Tech Lenses Pvt. Ltd.

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Our strategic partnership with S3Edge allows Microsoft BizTalk RFID users to exploit the Speedway® reader’s advanced capabilities and performance. I highly recommend S3Edge as a partner to work with in building end-to-end solutions on the Microsoft RFID platform.

Daniel Bowman
Sr. Marketing Manager, Impinj, Inc

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The expertise and credibility of the S3Edge team made it an easy choice for us to engage with them to build out our device provider capabilities for the BizTalk RFID platform. In addition, their ability to deliver ‘80% done, 20% customizable’ software solutions via their rich RTVS solution framework is a much needed piece of the puzzle in enabling our integrators to deliver high-value, complex solutions in a repeatable cookie-cutter manner, with lesser custom code

Sal Scafidi
Strategic Business Manager
Omron RFID Division

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We are extremely pleased to team up with S3Edge to put this exciting system development into the hands of our clients. Our unified, best-of-breed approach, which brings together Access Solutions’ deep domain expertise in the FME industry and S3Edge’s Spotlight technology for RFID-based asset tracking, as well as their systems integration bench strength and expertise, will deliver unparalleled levels of efficiencies across the enterprise

Kelvin Mann,
President  & CEO, Access Solutions

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