Datex Recognized as Notable Vendor in 2024 Gartner® Midmarket Context: Magic Quadrant™ for Warehouse Management Systems

We are honored to note that Datex was recently recognized as a Notable Vendor in the 2024 Gartner® Midmarket Context:  Magic Quadrant™ for Warehouse Management Systems 

Datex has been mentioned as a Notable Vendor in the 2024 Gartner® report titled, Midmarket Context: Magic Quadrant™ for WMS. Datex believes that this recognition highlights the company’s dedication to delivering warehouse management systems that excel in ease of use, simplicity, rapid implementation, and cost-effectiveness—qualities that are highly valued by midsize enterprises today. In our opinion, the recognition by Gartner reinforces Datex’s position as a leader in providing innovative WMS solutions tailored for the midsize enterprises including cold storage, pharmaceutical and 3PL warehouses. 

We love helping companies thrive and grow and midmarket is our sweet spot. Used in warehouse operations across the globe, Footprint WMS is trusted by many of the most popular brands in the world, from apparel, electronics, home goods, and more to pharma, nutraceuticals as well as food and beverage.

Footprint WMS Focus:  Built for Faster Growth and Less Pain in Warehouse Operations

This past year, Datex released its latest, most innovative version of Footprint WMS, a premier SaaS application hosted on Microsoft Azure, fully integrated, composed, published, and managed within our Footprint Studio platform. With its intuitive drag-and-drop simplicity and zero downtime update capabilities, Footprint WMS empowers clients to swiftly deploy customized enterprise solutions to meet complex operational needs. 

Footprint WMS is developed on our proprietary Footprint Studio platform – where we’ve encoded decades of expertise, collaborating with operations, executive leaders, technology teams, and frontlines employees across multiple markets and customers. The combined result is an unparalleled set of core WMS features, along with a native integration to critical business and supply chain solutions. And for those who want to significantly tailor Footprint WMS in-house and develop their own WMS and logistics capabilities, Footprint Studio gives you the low code building blocks to chart your own course. 

Footprint WMS is an expansive capability in an approachable package that delivers power and simplicity. It balances technology sophistication with operational ease and: 

• Provides 100% data visibility with total operations control. 
• Removes bottlenecks and blind spots. 
• Maximizes revenue capture and accelerates market expansion.

With Footprint WMS, you can unlock your full business potential. You’ll have the technology edge, the operational flexibility, and the broadest set of capabilities to win in an expanding market, while meeting its intensifying challenges and ever-increasing time pressures. 

Footprint WMS:  Engineered for Simplicity 

Built on a low code application platform, the latest version of Footprint WMS is a premier SaaS application hosted on Microsoft Azure, fully integrated, composed, published, and managed within our Footprint Studio platform. This proprietary platform empowers logistics professionals to craft sophisticated applications by seamlessly linking disparate systems and designing interfaces through a user-friendly, low-code studio. With its intuitive drag-and-drop simplicity and zero downtime update capabilities, Footprint WMS empowers clients to swiftly deploy customized enterprise solutions to meet complex operational needs. 

Footprint WMS transforms the user experience with a role-driven user interface that is perfectly tailored to every customer requirement, and easily updated every time a requirement changes. You can boost productivity and throughput at every step, while minimizing errors and wasted time.  This helps to ensure that the user interface fits the role of the user, making it easier to learn and use, perfect for seasonal workers. 

The Easiest Way to Manage a Growing Warehouse Operation 

Our low code application platform (LCAP) makes Footprint easy to learn and use, create new apps and deploy.  Footprint WMS was developed on the Datex proprietary LCAP, Footprint Studio.  This LCAP simplifies software development by providing graphical tools and a visual, drag-and-drop interface which minimizes the need for hand-coding and programming. Now even non-technical users can create and deploy applications by assembling pre-built components, templates, and integrations. 

Smooth, painless integrations. Footprint WMS includes a suite of tools to help create and manage business process workflows, including visual process diagrams. To streamline integrations, Datex provides pre-built connectors that integrate with databases, cloud services, and third-party APIs. We also provide visual data modeling tools to make it easy to design and manage data models and relationships.  Robust integration frameworks and connectors facilitate the exchange of data and workflows between systems, maximizing visibility and operational efficiency. This is especially true when dealing with emerging technologies, such as artificial intelligence, Internet of Things and machine learning. 

Datex partners with our clients to help optimize and tailor Footprint WMS to achieve the established objectives and grow each business.  From inception to midmarket, Datex clients leverage the capabilities and flexibility of Footprint WMS to capture more revenue, compete more effectively and operate in new markets, fueling growth and new opportunities.   

Footprint WMS:  The WMS That Just Clicks 

With the uptick in e-commerce shopping since the global COVID pandemic, warehouse operators have enjoyed steady growth.  But with growth comes complexity. Each new customer arrives with a full bag of customized wants, needs, and fulfillment preferences. Each new shopping season brings new labor challenges, compounded by a persistent labor shortage. And as distribution becomes the cornerstone of the brand experience, warehouse operators and 3PL providers are asked to shoulder bigger challenges and measured to higher standards. 

If a warehouse operator or 3PL provider cannot get its arms around operational complexity, the result will be workflow bottlenecks, tedious and time-consuming onboarding, cloudy financial visibility, and a host of other business limitations. It will not be able to respond fast enough and strategically enough to customer demands. And all that future growth will be unattainable. 

The key to success is technology. A strategic investment in the right logistics technology is how the smartest warehouses are run, the toughest operational challenges are solved, the most profitable businesses are built, and the best brand experiences are delivered. 

3PL providers and warehouse operators who embrace technology innovation will rule the market. They will thrive where logistics requirements are the most complex and where their capabilities delivers the most value. 

People There for You 

Datex has a team of industry experts eager to fix problems and build solutions.  With over 45 years of pressure testing, you can rest easy that you have found a solution to your warehousing challenges.   Our team gets it.  We’ve worked on the warehouse floor, built reports, analyzed data, and tailored solutions specifically for you and your customers.  We’re ready and able. 

Let us show you how to get your warehouse operation down to a science.  We’ve done the research, built the product and have it standing by at the ready.  Tell us what you need so we can get you there!