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 energize 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, optimize 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.
Learn how Zebra's public sector technology solutions empower state and local governments to improve efficiency with asset tracking and data capture devices.
Zebra's range of Banking technology solutions enables banks to minimize costs and to increase revenue throughout their branch network. Learn more.
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 organization to better manage and optimize 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.
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Zebra's OEM scan engines, imagers, and private label OEM products offer flexible integration and help enhance product development with modern OEM technology.
Zebra's environmental sensors monitor temperature-sensitive products, offering data insights on environmental conditions across industry applications.
Keep labor costs low, your talent happy and your organization 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 prioritized 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.
Boost warehouse and manufacturing operations with Symmetry, an AMR software for fleet management of Autonomous Mobile Robots and streamlined automation workflows.
The Zebra Aurora suite of industrial automation software enables users of all experience levels to solve their track-and-trace and vision inspection 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.
Aimed at machine and computer vision engineers, Aurora Vision Studio software enables users to quickly create, integrate and monitor powerful machine vision applications without the need to write a single line of code.
Adding innovative tech is critical to your success, but it can be complex and disruptive. Professional Services help you accelerate adoption, and maximize 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.
The Zebra Knowledge Center provides learning expertise that can be tailored to meet the specific needs of your environment.
Zebra has a wide variety of courses to train you and your staff, ranging from scheduled sessions to remote offerings as well as custom tailored to your specific needs.
Build your reputation with Zebra's certification offerings. Zebra offers a variety of options that can help you progress your career path forward.
Build your reputation with Zebra's certification offerings. Zebra offers a variety of options that can help you progress your career path forward.
How Well Do You Know – Really Know – Your Business?
While you may know your company like the back of your hand, there’s a powerful but invisible tool embedded in your people, processes and products that can tell you how things really are. It’s data. And many businesses aren’t taking full advantage of it.
From strategy to supply chains, leaders in the manufacturing sector need to have a clear overview of day-to-day business activities, as well as keeping one eye on the future – and customers’ evolving needs. This is especially true as organisations fight to stay ahead of the unpredictable demand generated by the global COVID-19 outbreak.
The ability to harness real-time, useful data could be the single most important strategic step your business takes. It offers the ability to generate truly impactful and actionable insights to transform how you run your business.
What kind of data is useful?
That depends.
Data is generated everywhere throughout a business and its supply chain. Business leaders simply need to know how to extract and analyse it in a useful way, so they can achieve positive outcomes.
Mobile computers, scanners, sensors – these standard industry devices already capture data across warehouse floors with RFID, using the Internet of Things (IoT) to connect the digital and the physical. But this wealth of data needs to be analysed in real time; IDC predicts that by 2025, 30 percent of all applications will use real-time data. By then, over 50 percent of all data will be in the cloud.
Also, the useful data needs to be separated from the excess, and the data that’s not being used efficiently needs to be identified. ‘Big data’ is one thing, but ‘small data that tells you exactly what you need to know to create impact’ is far more manageable.
How APIs Help to Interpret the Right Data
The good news is that applications are available to better connect users with their devices and data. In order to be most effective, though, these applications must often be designed specifically to facilitate a vertical sector or individual company’s unique need. This is where application programming interfaces (APIs) come into play. APIs can help businesses innovate more quickly and enable developers to create tailor-made applications that make processes more efficient. What’s more, APIs can work hand-in-hand with emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning and blockchain to ensure the golden combination of transparency and security is running right through a supply chain. Using existing APIs can also help to reduce time spent on development cycles, as well as drive down associated costs.
Ultimately, APIs – in practical terms – will transform workflows, identify bottlenecks in the supply chain and improve performance.
Which APIs are Right for Your Business?
That is the million-dollar question for many.
One thing that Zebra has learned from close collaboration with customers across multiple sectors is that cloud-based tools that collect and process data from intelligent edge devices in real time can completely transform operational efficiency and outcomes. They turn raw data into intelligence and actionable insights. The data in turn enables businesses to create bespoke applications.
To understand your application needs, it’s worth scrutinising your own processes and asking yourself a few questions:
- Do you need unique workflow solutions? If so, cloud-accessible APIs may be best. They enable your developers to build highly customised applications that enable you to pull together disparate data sources and connect multiple edge devices in order to better understand your business opportunities.
- Who/what generates your data? A platform that uses IoT, artificial intelligence and machine learning will be most capable of aggregating and redistributing insights across the mobile devices already being used by your employees, partners and customers.
- When will you need to access data? You need convenience and flexibility; and a cloud-based portal that offers developers 24/7 access to your business data can help to reduce development cycle time.
- Could your supply chain be enhanced? APIs can help to refine supply chains. For instance, Zebra Data Services™ is a key component of Doddle’s click-and-collect service offering to retailers. As you’ll see in this video, Doddle leverages Zebra Savanna™ to create a cloud-based solution to streamline its returns platform specifically. This helps pave the way for informed decisions, cost reductions and better-managed inventories.
- What other ways could you leverage APIs to improve operational efficiency, safety, security or customer service? One global video security and video-based business intelligence provider used Zebra Data Services to introduce a fraudulent return investigations capability in its retail solution, which ultimately improved its bottom line. Another company that provides keyless and wireless Bluetooth, RFID intelligent lock technology is using Zebra Data Services to provide insights on device health, location and usage, battery health and worker productivity levels.
Want to Know Your Business Inside and Out?
If there’s an opportunity to know your business even better, then APIs will empower you to act on it. Learn how you can get a more intelligent overview of your organisation with Zebra Data Services, powered by Zebra Savanna or contact us to set up a consultation.
Alex Fryer
Alex Fryer is currently the Intelligent Edge Solutions (IES) Regional Product Manager and responsible for driving the go-to-market in EMEA for Zebra’s IES portfolio. Alex has more than eight years of experience within the technology industry and has driven the go-to-market strategies in a number of sectors. Alex holds a BA in Marketing & Language Studies from the University of Liverpool.
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