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We wrapped up Project Volcano just before the holidays and we’re in the process of reaching out to the official contest winners to let them know that they’ve won.  We’ll announce the results after we’ve contacted and confirmed each winner.

Project Volcano aside, every Savi Developer is a winner to us.  And it’s now easier than ever to become a Savi Developer (for free!!!). 

ProgrammableWeb, one of the best references online for Web Service APIs, just added Savi Web Services to their API Directory.  You can see it here: http://www.programmableweb.com/api/savi.  We’re proud to see our API up there with some of the biggest names in the Cloud Computing / Web Service / Mashup world, including Google Maps, Facebook Social Graph, and PayPal Online Payments.

But it gets even better than that.  If you want to get your hands dirty and start building something with the Savi API you can dive in with our free online tutorial.  We have a text version here, and a video version here, and one Savi Developer was even kind enough to post a PHP SOAP client for Savi Web Services tutorial here (Thanks Joe).

So sit back, grab a can of Red Bull, and start coding.

Paul Krakow

Director of Business Development, Savi Technology

Fitting RFID to the Business

Earlier this year, I wrote here about the importance of taking an operational “process approach” when designing the best type of Auto ID solution for managing assets.  Whether it’s passive or active RFID or GPS – or a combination of wireless devices – the underlying business application and processes must be understood beforehand.  Otherwise, the implementation just becomes another science experiment.

Here, I want to focus more on how RFID and Auto ID solutions must adapt to each business area’s processes even if they seem to be the same across government and commercial enterprises.  We have discovered over more than two decades of providing Auto ID solutions for supply chain and asset management that wireless solutions must fit the existing process – not the other way around. (more…)

Read more @ ARC Advisory Group’s Logistics Viewpoints

To hear the 15-minute internet radio interview with Savi CTO William Maggs, go to the Peggy Smedley Show