Integration Software

The Problem

All software vendors looking to provide support for the ISO 28560-2 standard are faced with some complex encoding rules and difficult conformance criteria. Perhaps as a vendor with limited development/testing resource or with no strategic reason to learn the intricacies of the standard, it is difficult to see a way forward to achieving ISO 28560-2 conformance.

The Solution

Our Integration Software is designed to take away the pain of delevoping and testing proprietary software for ISO 28560-2. Convergent Software's library data protocol processing (DPP) engine includes decoding and encoding that are conformant with ISO 28560-2. The DPP engine has a well defined application programming interface (API) that covers all encoding, decoding and associated operations. Therefore, vendors can embed our software in theirs with just a small amount of integration effort.

The Integration Software includes:

The java classes that comprise the DPP engine (in the form of JAR files).
API documentation
Ongoing permission to distribute, as part of their overall software solution, the Convergent Software JAR files royalty free.
Two copies of the current version of each of our tools:
Free software upgrades during the integration programme.
Ongoing internal use of the executable software.

Assurances

Convergent Software Limited has no intentions of entering the market as a supplier of RFID hardware systems to libraries. So, any development partner is assured:

of absolute discretion about the bilateral agreement, which we are prepared to honour with Non-Disclosure Agreements.
of the fact that there is no competitive threat from Convergent Software Limited.
that the software will support all aspects of ISO 28560-2.
that the same conformance to ISO 28560-2 applies as with the software that we intend to offer separately for modelling, encoding and conversion and diagnostics.

Convergent Software Limited is offering this scheme on a non-exclusive basis, but any vendor's participation in the scheme will not be disclosed to any third party.

The purchase of the integration software will allow the vendor to use the software in future implementations without the need for its library clients requiring any licence with Convergent Software Limited, or for them even to be aware of the integration.