Name: Zebra MotionWorks
Rating: 4 (74 reviews)

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Updated 13th October 2025

What is Zebra MotionWorks?

Zebra MotionWorks is a software designed to provide real-time visibility of asset locations, status, and movement within various operational environments. The software uses automatic identification technologies such as RFID, Bluetooth Low Energy, and Ultra-Wideband to collect and analyze location and condition data from tagged assets, equipment, or personnel. MotionWorks aims to help businesses enhance workflow efficiency, resource utilization, and inventory management by delivering insights for optimizing operational processes. The software supports integration with existing systems to facilitate data-driven decision making and to address challenges related to asset tracking, workplace safety, and process automation across industries such as manufacturing, logistics, and healthcare.

Overall experience with Zebra MotionWorks

ANALYTICS MANAGER

500M - 1B USD, Miscellaneous

FAVORABLE

“Real Time Asset Tracking”

5.0

Sep 16, 2024

Zebra has provided us with an efficient asset tracking solution which allows us to track the location of our assets in real time increasing the operational productivity. By installing sensors and attaching wireless beacons to assets, the details are analysed by Savanna location engine for informed business decisions and help our business understand the asset movement to optimize operations.

IT Manager

30B + USD, Manufacturing

CRITICAL

“Great product with room to improve and grow. ”

3.0

Oct 25, 2023

MWE overall has been a great new technology offering. With this new offering, it has opened our abilities to utilize the full catalog of zebra location technologies. However, I do feel that the application requires many enhancements still and bug fixes that directly impact end users.

About Company

Company Description

Zebra is a company focused on optimizing organizational workflow through improved visibility and connection. Its offerings include a wide array of software and innovations such as robotics, machine vision, automation and digital decision-making applications that fall within its extensive portfolio. Rooted in a long history of scanning, track-and-trace, and mobile computing solutions, Zebra serves a global reach with an extensive network of partners.

Company Details

Company type

Public

Head office location

Lincolnshire, United States

Number of employees

5001 - 10000

Website

http://www.zebra.com

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Accurate and Reliable, Combines sensor data and analytics to offer insights and easy to use.

MWE is creating a more visual way to see your installed hardware and manage them from a front end screen. There are many standard offerings within MWE that were required to be customized within VSS

The build quality and reliability of the Wherelan sensors, Whereports, and tags are really great. I can only think of one instance where a sensor actually died, and that was due to a confirmed lightning strike. I've seen Whereports that have been deployed outdoors for more than decade just keep trucking on. Second is the resiliency of the system itself. It always surprises me how many sensors we can actually have down/offline and still get usable location accuracy.

Nothing

Product: MWE seems to be in what we would describe as early stages. Many bug fixes and user complaints that have driven us to required hotfixes to be applied to MWE installation. ATR devices require multiple softwares and on-site VM offerings to be able to run the process. In a large, complex, secure and lean mindset company, this is what we would define as risk and waste. Our MWE, CLAS installations have been unstable (multiple outages each this year) due to known issues that we were not made aware of until they happened. Support: Often times the support model is very hard to follow and knowing who the experts are for individual offerings is very vague. We have had great experience with the engineering teams but once we require help from other teams or certain product related support, the criticality and understanding of engagement seems to drop off. Sometimes we are not sure whether our tickets being entered are ending up in the right folks queues to support. We have been functioning through email for a long time to address concerns, issues, open requirements.

I'm overall very positive on the products, but I think a weaker area are the tools used to program the devices. The Wherewand handheld used to provision new tags and program Whereports in particular is pretty old-school and can definitely be finicky.

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50M-1B USD

Miscellaneous

Review Source

Real Time Asset Tracking

10B+ USD

Manufacturing

Great product with room to improve and grow.

Systems Architect II

1B-10B USD

Zebra location services are unbelievably resilient.

Overall I'm a huge proponent of Zebra's location services. I've been running one of their largest Wherenet sites for a number of years, and its really remarkable just how reliable and resilient that system is. We're locating 10,000 tags in vehicles over 155 acres down to plus/minus one parking space accuracy for more than 15 years. As far as service from Zebra, they are extraordinarily responsive. I can even remember one situation where a Java upgrade on a legacy server broke a custom integration to another one of our systems, and Zebra had their most senior software devs write us custom dll's that plugged the hole for us and really saved the day.

Site DT Leader

Review

The support team was great to work with and overall very knowledgeable about the product we bought. Rep really stands out as a true product expert.

Business Development Associate

Gov't/PS/Ed

Education

Clearly has excellent usability .

May 27, 2023

Overall, we like how it is for user , managers and specialist to utilize the format . you may simple follow a word order progress in real time after filing it. the daily management of activities at a university institution is efficient and simple .