Fluensee Brings RFID to BMC -- a BFD! ;-)

Fluensee, one of my favorite RFID vendors, has announced integration of its AssetTrack solution with BMC Software's Remedy Asset Management Solution. The result: more automated, efficient, and effective tracking of RFID-tagged IT assets, which means greater efficiency and security for enterprise IT resources. Companies that know where their IT assets are can assign and move those assets around in response to changing business needs more effectively, inventory them more quickly, and perhaps avoid buying more of them than necessary.

In case you were wondering, Dell, HP, IBM, and other IT vendors are increasingly offering RFID-tagged server blades and other IT infrastructure components. This is precisely the kind of integration I've been blathering on about for months now, when I talk about RFID's real business value as a source of real-time, fully integrated data. In this case, the data's about IT assets, but once the integration floodgates open, it doesn't take a rocket scientist, or even a semi-cranky industry analyst, to see more potential. And the more things I can manage more effectively from the same tool or platform, the more business value I get out of that investment as well.

This isn't the first integration of RFID with IT asset or infrastructure management, and if the vendor community is anywhere near as smart as I dare hope, it won't be the last. It's an important one, largely because of the fairly large marketplace footprint of the Remedy family of products. But with RFID, IT asset management, and IT infrastructure management all evolving rapidly, and increasingly being augmented by software as a service (SaaS) alternatives, the game will continue to change, and will definitely be worth continued watching -- and not just by me, BMC, and Fluensee...