Knowledge is Powerful – Zebra VisibilityIQ and Mobility DNA: Webinar Highlights with a Special Guest from Zebra

Zebra offers a full portfolio of services that can increase operational efficiency, reduce costs, and enhance overall business performance. These include VisibilityIQ™ Foresight, Zebra OneCare, Mobility DNA, and Identity Guardian.

VisibilityIQ™ Foresight and What It Is

Mobility solutions, such as mobile computers, tablets, scanners, and printers, are an essential part of your operation to improve efficiencies and maximize productivity. Having visibility into your devices helps to optimize your investments. Zebra’s VisibilityIQ™ Foresight is a unique data intelligence platform that provides the visibility needed to make decisions that are necessary in achieving operational excellence.

VisibilityIQ™ Foresight is a standalone offer sold by partners, such as Imprint Enterprises, to end-user customers. This platform provides predictive insights and historical trend information for greater optimization and can help prevent being blindsided by problems.

Mike highlights common problems that can occur without predictive analytics and actionable insights, such as:

• Device productivity declines
• Device security is at risk
• Costs rise
• Operational efficiency is impacted

Enable Operational Decisions Across a Spectrum of Job Functions

Operational decisions can be improved when insights from devices are taken into consideration. Different departments need different types of information to help meet their goals and avoid frustrations. VisibilityIQ™ is an opportunity to democratize data that can be leveraged by multiple roles within an organization, regardless of vertical.

Mike provides examples of how VisibilityIQ™ can impact individuals and their roles in an organization:

• Site managers and tactical decisions
• IT/OT managers and operational decisions
• C-Suite managers and strategic decisions

More Than Big Data for Proactive Data-Driven Decisions

VisibilityIQ™ Foresight is more than big data and reports. This standalone platform helps to prevent downtime, improve efficiency, and decrease costs with predictive insights and historical trends for your mobility solution devices. Zebra considered feedback from customers and partners to create this unique solution.

Zebra’s research defined the information that can be optimally portrayed to help customers and end users. Zebra collects information from a client's Zebra OneCare, their MDM (if they have one), and the Zebra device itself to create insights and trends.

Mike provides examples of how the analyses that are created are useful:

• Ensure devices are ready
• Forecast seasonal demands and trends
• Eliminating guesswork and taking action
• Predict device issues
• Seeing a bigger picture
• Visualizing enriched data

VisibilityIQ™ Vitals

The VisibilityIQ™ Vitals user interface is a dashboard environment that portrays the data in terms of health scores across eight primary metrics, focusing in and around the hardware, software, applications, and connectivity of devices. This concept is comparable to getting your vitals checked by your doctor, which can help determine a course of action.

Mike provides information on the eight areas of focus in VisibilityIQ™ Vitals that can provide detailed insights into:

• Software health
• Missing devices
• Hardware health
• Damage and repairs
• Battery health
• Device utilization
• Device inventory
• Connectivity health

VisibilityIQ™ Platform Options

Zebra Mobility DNA is Your Built-in Advantage

Mobility DNA is built into Zebra devices to help take full advantage of the device itself. Mobility DNA is a suite of software applications, utilities, and tools that deliver the unmatched experiences your team gets over the lifetime of every Zebra device. Mobility DNA delivers a full lifecycle of exceptional experiences for every kind of user.

Mobility DNA helps to integrate, deploy, secure, manage, and optimize Zebra devices once installed. Trevor provides greater detail of the Mobility DNA device support matrix:

Manage

• Device Diagnostics Tool
• Device Tracker (now called Device Guardian)
• Wireless Insights
• Wireless Fusion
• Wireless Analyzer
• RxLogger
• GMS Restricted
• Mobility Extensions (Mx)
• OEMConfig (Mx)

Optimize

• Device Central
• All-Touch Terminal Emulation
• Terminal Emulation Lite
• Enterprise Keyboard
• NG SimulScan
• TekTerm for Android
• OCR Wedge

Zebra Identity Guardian

Zebra’s Identity Guardian is one of the Mobility DNA tools that can help manage accountability with your devices. There is a free and a paid version of this tool, with the paid version enabling single sign-on implementation and facial biometrics. Identity Guardian is used to personally assign devices, create shared devices, lock down devices, and use a PIN or facial recognition to gain access to the device.

Sharing devices can complicate processes and hinder device control, creating challenges to overcome in the workplace. Identity Guardian is a solution that does not store user information locally or in a cloud and is tailored for shared environments, ensuring smooth integration without compromising security.

Trevor details how Identity Guardian works for shared or personal devices:

• User profile created
• User picks available devices or is assigned a device
• User scans barcode or shows face
• User is signed into device

Webinar Wrap-Up

Zebra offers a full portfolio of services that can increase operational efficiency, reduce costs, and enhance overall business performance. These include VisibilityIQ™ Foresight, Zebra OneCare, Mobility DNA, and Identity Guardian.

Bob, Mike, and Trevor complete the webinar by answering the following questions:

• Does Zebra DNA come with devices or is it an extra fee?
• Is there a free version of VisibilityIQ™ and a paid version?
• Can I subdivide devices with a geofence or a location code?
• Can I do provisioning with VisibilityIQ™ alone, or is an MDM necessary?
• Is Zebra Identity Guardian free, or is that an extra fee?
• Can I track devices in my facility with VisibilityIQ™?
• Bob: Do you have any case studies or examples of using VisibilityIQ™ or Zebra DNA in business for your clients?

Imprint’s Professional Services

Imprint is a privately held company that was founded in 1975 and has been producing on-demand labels and AIDC products and services since 1990. Imprint has over 2,000 active customers, providing the best-in-breed technology so you can accomplish your business goals within your budget.

Imprint has top-tier status as a Premier Solution Partner with Zebra Technologies, offering a variety of products and solutions:

• On-demand label printing systems
• Rugged and industrial mobile terminals
• Handheld and fixed-mount scanners
• RFID solutions
• Printer consumables and printer media
• Automation products and services

For 35 years, Imprint has been furnishing label printer media to customers ranging from Fortune 50 to startups, stocking over 750 different sizes and configurations of labels, including regulatory labeling. Imprint’s professional services portfolio has grown over the years, starting with the deployment and servicing of on-demand label printing systems and incorporating:

• BarTender integration services
• SOTI & 42Gears deployment and management services
• Wireless site-surveys and installation
• Application development and deployment
• Mobile device deployment
• IM², IM² PLUS, and IM² MAX remote support services

Watch the Webinar Replay

Zebra Technologies is an award-winning leader across multiple barcode technology products and solutions. With the increase in mobile device usage to enhance operational functions, taking care of your mobile investments extends the life of devices and increases your ROI.

Zebra’s VisibilityIQ™ Foresight can provide greater visibility to help make decisions to achieve greater operational excellence. Mobility DNA can help extend the lifecycle of your Zebra devices. Zebra’s Identity Guardian creates greater device accountability without risking security.

Watch the webinar replay, Knowledge is Powerful – Zebra VisibilityIQ and Mobility DNA. The experts are there to help you select the best barcode scanner for your business. If you have questions contact Imprint Enterprises today.