Editorial

Tim’s daughter, Hannah, graduated as a vet last Sunday at Cambridge University and back at the office, Monday morning’s show was all about the ceremonial pomp steeped in history that still exists.

Picture students in their elegant robes flowing towards the graduation hall with joyful, yet elegant, parades via the city’s main avenues – and half the ceremony being held in Latin! It made me think how formal education in the Middle Ages was often only available to a small part of the population, almost exclusively at religious institutions and monastic schools for the wealthy, who could afford to pay for their tutors.

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	Sophie B. de la Giroday Publisher

In this issue

	Focus on Access Control
	Special Report on Food & Animal ID

	Postal Innovation Digest
	Retail Solutions
	Events

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Focus on Access Control

In this issue:
- An architectural question for IAM
- Networking a secure, collaborative campus

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Special Report on Food & Animal ID

In this issue:
- Keeping tabs on our meat
- Safety in the food supply chain

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Articles

An architectural question for IAM
Designing an identity and access management (IAM) solution can be mission critical to ensure accreditation is not compromised. In the search for the optimal IAM architecture, the issue of a directory vs a database system is explored

Networking a secure, collaborative campus
An in-depth look at how a Canadian university met the challenge of integrating a secure network with intelligent identification, authentication and access control through a multiprotocol label switching (MPLS) architecture

Managing retail systems remotely with auto ID
Today’s goal in the retail market as far as technology is concerned, is to reduce IT costs but also include increased performance and up-time of store level systems and networks that maximize operational efficiency. We look at how this can be achieved and explore some of the benefits it can bring

If the shoe fits, tag it
Retailers are facing enormous pressure to gain the most return from their business process investments. We explore how RFID enables business intelligence throughout an organization’s value chain to provide critical information for fast and accurate decision-making

Pioneering transformation
Saudi Post bases its work on modern strategies and advanced postal services, to keep pace with developments in the postal market and the postal industry. Postal Innovation Digest spoke to the man behind the business, Dr Mohammad Benten

Staying on track
For the past decade, postal operators have employed various strategies to manage changing market demands. The effects of globalization, liberalization, deregulation and technological advances can no longer be ignored, requiring postal organizations to not only raise the bar on their performance, but also introduce a new kind of flexibility and agility into their operations

An evolving ecosystem for physical mail
In terms of integrating RFID for postal operators to implement the technology and in order to, there are are a number of issues and factors that need to be taken into account – particularly when the improvement of overall mail services are at stake. Postal Innovation Digest met with Richard Wishart to explore this key area of development

Spain's Correos tags mail

Hybrid mail: a paradigm shift
Exploring some of the extended features available in a good hybrid mail solution, and how it can benefit an organization

Postbag Q&A
Postal sector market processes are rapidly evolving. Digitization of mail is promising significant benefits to customers and postal operators, who must act fast to adapt their traditional methodologies in all domains

Keeping tabs on our meat
Traceability technology plays a critical role in helping streamline the way farmers manage and monitor their flocks as they progress through the food chain. We follow the trail from farm to fork

Safety in the food supply chain
Exploring the benefits of RFID in the food chain and how it can benefit both food safety and supply chain efficiency

Industry leaders unite for ID WORLD 2010
Leaders in the world of automatic identification and wireless technologies are contributing their vision and inspiration to the formation of the conference agenda for the ninth annual global summit on automatic identification, security and traceability

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