Zebra's Industry Solutions can give your business a competitive advantage by connecting people, assets and data to help you make better decisions.
Scale and energise your retail strategy with a digital backbone that unifies your team, informs priorities and drives results with Zebra's retail technology solutions.
Zebra's healthcare technology solutions provide patient identity management, mobile health devices, and business intelligence data to improve efficiency.
Zebra’s manufacturing technology solutions enable manufacturers to become more agile, optimise plant floor performance and embrace market changes.
Zebra's market-leading solutions and products improve customer satisfaction with a lower cost per interaction by keeping service representatives connected with colleagues, customers, management and the tools they use to satisfy customers across the supply chain.
In today's world, the demands on transportation and logistics companies are higher than ever. Dedicated Warehouse, Fleet and Delivery, and Yard and Terminal solutions enable visibility to every aspect of your business and keep operations running flawlessly around the clock.
Zebra's hospitality technology solutions equip your hotel and restaurant staff to deliver superior customer and guest service through inventory tracking and more.
Empower your field workers with purpose-driven mobile technology solutions to help them capture and share critical data in any environment.
Zebra’s mobile computing, scanning, and printing solutions connect each operational area in your warehouse to give you the agility to realize transformational gains.
Zebra's range of mobile computers equip your workforce with the devices they need from handhelds and tablets to wearables and vehicle-mounted computers.
Zebra's desktop, mobile, industrial, and portable printers for barcode labels, receipts, RFID tags and cards give you smarter ways to track and manage assets.
Zebra's 1D and 2D corded and cordless barcode scanners anticipate any scanning challenge in a variety of environments, whether retail, healthcare, T&L or manufacturing.
Zebra's extensive range of RAIN RFID readers, antennas, and printers give you consistent and accurate tracking.
Choose Zebra's reliable barcode, RFID and card supplies carefully selected to ensure high performance, print quality, durability and readability.
Zebra's location technologies provide real-time tracking for your organisation to better manage and optimise your critical assets and create more efficient workflows.
Zebra's rugged tablets and 2-in-1 laptops are thin and lightweight, yet rugged to work wherever you do on familiar and easy-to-use Windows or Android OS.
With Zebra's family of fixed industrial scanners and machine vision technologies, you can tailor your solutions to your environment and applications.
Zebra’s line of kiosks can meet any self-service or digital signage need, from checking prices and stock on an in-aisle store kiosk to fully-featured kiosks that can be deployed on the wall, counter, desktop or floor in a retail store, hotel, airport check-in gate, physician’s office, local government office and more.
Discover Zebra’s range of accessories from chargers, communication cables to cases to help you customise your mobile device for optimal efficiency.
Zebra's environmental sensors monitor temperature-sensitive products, offering data insights on environmental conditions across industry applications.
Keep labour costs low, your talent happy and your organisation compliant. Create an agile operation that can navigate unexpected schedule changes and customer demand to drive sales, satisfy customers and improve your bottom line.
Empower the front line with prioritised task notification and enhanced communication capabilities for easier collaboration and more efficient task execution.
Get full visibility of your inventory and automatically pinpoint leaks across all channels.
Reduce uncertainty when you anticipate market volatility. Predict, plan and stay agile to align inventory with shifting demand.
Drive down costs while driving up employee, security, and network performance with software designed to enhance Zebra's wireless infrastructure and mobile solutions.
Explore Zebra’s printer software to integrate, manage and monitor printers easily, maximizing IT resources and minimizing down time.
Make the most of every stage of your scanning journey from deployment to optimization. Zebra's barcode scanner software lets you keep devices current and adapt them to your business needs for a stronger ROI across the full lifecycle.
RFID development, demonstration and production software and utilities help you build and manage your RFID deployments more efficiently.
RFID development, demonstration and production software and utilities help you build and manage your RFID deployments more efficiently.
Zebra DNA is the industry’s broadest suite of enterprise software that delivers an ideal experience for all during the entire lifetime of every Zebra device.
Advance your digital transformation and execute your strategic plans with the help of the right location and tracking technology.
The Zebra Aurora suite of machine vision software enables users to solve their track-and-trace, vision inspection and industrial automation needs.
Zebra Aurora Focus brings a new level of simplicity to controlling enterprise-wide manufacturing and logistics automation solutions. With this powerful interface, it’s easy to set up, deploy and run Zebra’s Fixed Industrial Scanners and Machine Vision Smart Cameras, eliminating the need for different tools and reducing training and deployment time.
Aurora Imaging Library™, formerly Matrox Imaging Library, machine-vision software development kit (SDK) has a deep collection of tools for image capture, processing, analysis, annotation, display, and archiving. Code-level customization starts here.
Aurora Design Assistant™, formerly Matrox Design Assistant, integrated development environment (IDE) is a flowchart-based platform for building machine vision applications, with templates to speed up development and bring solutions online quicker.
Designed for experienced programmers proficient in vision applications, Aurora Vision Library provides the same sophisticated functionality as our Aurora Vision Studio software but presented in programming language.
Aurora Vision Studio, an image processing software for machine & computer vision engineers, allows quick creation, integration & monitoring of powerful OEM vision applications.
Adding innovative tech is critical to your success, but it can be complex and disruptive. Professional Services help you accelerate adoption, and maximise productivity without affecting your workflows, business processes and finances.
Zebra's Managed Service delivers worry-free device management to ensure ultimate uptime for your Zebra Mobile Computers and Printers via dedicated experts.
Find ways you can contact Zebra Technologies’ Support, including Email and Chat, ask a technical question or initiate a Repair Request.
Zebra's Circular Economy Program helps you manage today’s challenges and plan for tomorrow with smart solutions that are good for your budget and the environment.
*This blog post was written by Kris Boles of TPI, a Zebra Premier Solution Partner.
The results of Zebra's 2019 Intelligent Enterprise Index were recently released and it was a relief to see that companies are relying substantially more on a single strategic partner to manage their entire IoT solution, shifting away from using several partners as in previous years.
Technology changes at such a fast pace that keeping up with new solutions is challenging at best. It can be hard to decipher which hardware, software, or accessories are best for you in any given moment. It can also be challenging to distinguish between technologies that are the best fix right now – a band-aid if you will – and those that will remain the best solution long term.
Imagine how much more complicated it can become if you are leaning on multiple partners to help you piece together your technology solution. Conflicting advice can obscure your project, as can mismatched design, development or deployment visions among your many vendors. Even if every solution provider is an expert – and excellent – at what they do and they do their best to work as a team, project managing multiple partners can be onerous for many organizations.
Perhaps that’s why we’re seeing more companies ask a single strategic partner to manage their projects and their other partners. It reduces the fragmentation that can cause a “failure to deliver” outcome, from either the solution or solution provider.
Although it may appear that the Intelligent Enterprise Index study was focused solely on IoT deployments, every type of technology connected to an enterprise or industrial data system is going to be part of an IoT deployment. Mobile computers, barcode scanners, printers and tablets are all “things” connected via the internet to empower workers and workflows.
That is why it is imperative to find a strategic technology partner who has expertise in both wireless LAN and industrial computing systems if your mobile workers run critical applications at the edge of your enterprise, regardless of the specific devices you ultimately employ to facilitate those applications.
More importantly, you want an expert in your corner who stays educated and aware of the technologies available. You need a partner who will get to know your business, will get to the bottom of your business challenges and consult you on the best ways to solve your problems. You also need a partner who is committed to collaborating with you long after a sale is complete and your system is online.
Why?
This kind of partnership gives your distributed enterprise an advantage at the edge. Your technology architecture – including networks, mobile hardware and software – will need continuous optimization as new challenges emerge and new operational goals are defined over time:
How do you know that a solution provider possesses all of these qualities? How do you confirm it has experience successfully deploying solutions in your type of operating environment?
Its track record will speak volumes. But that may require you to pick up the phone and speak directly to its customer references. The success stories you see on paper don’t always tell the full story. Just as you may talk to your peers to assess their experience with certain technology solutions, you need to assess the experiences they’ve had with solution providers.
Choosing the right partner can do more than secure you a strong return on investment (ROI) for your technology spend. It can relieve stress and bring peace of mind to you and your team. Knowing you have experts you can turn to in both times of need and times of trouble is valuable. Having a single point-of-contact that you trust, who can provide expert advice on products or services, will make a positive effect on your bottom line and provide your distributed enterprise an advantage at the edge.
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About the Author:
Kris Boles is an experienced marketing and client services professional with a demonstrated track record in the wireless industry. She is celebrating her 17th year with TPI, where she handles marketing and vendor relations. Ms. Boles is actively involved with TPI’s industry partners and works in close collaboration with their teams to develop, execute and measure tactical marketing plans.
About TPI
TPI is a systems integrator and value-added reseller of barcoding hardware and software solutions. TPI helps companies in a variety of industries that are looking to improve operational efficiency and financial performance. Typically, this involves best-of-breed WLAN survey, design, installation and deployment of mobile computing and scanning solutions. TPI also develops custom software that shares legacy system information with the shop floor and outside the four walls. Learn how TPI can help you be better at what you do. Visit our website at www.tpi1.com
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