Fortunately, technology providers can use a cloud-based integration platform to connect their products to various mobile and back-office systems. Besides having pre-built connectors, the platform has access to customizable, white-label software components to fill product gaps and expand your system capabilities without the cost, risk, and uncertain timetables of new software development.
Offering a fully integrated solution out of the gate addresses a top requirement for transportation companies. Customers do not want to invest in a solution that adds more tech debt to their organization, such as difficult and expensive integrations they must set up and maintain. Likewise, they don’t want to go through another integration project if they decide to switch providers for their ELD telematics or transportation management system (TMS), among other possibilities.
A cloud-based integration and white-label software development platform helps tech providers better support evolving customer needs. Suppose a TMS provider wants to offer customers a new feature that optimizes load planning decisions. The provider could use the platform’s pre-built connectors with third-party applications and add components from the development kit to add new capabilities and enhance the user experience.
A user dashboard could be built with connectors and components to display key planning metrics like available driver hours, customer orders, and asset location data. The provider could also layer in a live tracking component that improves visibility for operations and shipment tracking.
Similarly, if a transportation company is experiencing communication gaps and delays that create operational errors, a tech provider could add a mobile driver app from the platform for dispatch-driver workflow and real-time communications. The list could go on and on. Perhaps most importantly, the tech vendor can offer customers a value-added tech strategy that eliminates tech debt and gives them total control and flexibility over future IT decisions.
Those who leverage a middleware integration and development platform can add new product capabilities faster and more economically, freeing time and resources to focus on delivering innovative, customized solutions to increase their competitive edge in a rapidly evolving market.
Industry tech providers using this value-added tech strategy to ensure they are meeting evolving customer needs with ready-to-go integrations and white-label software components include:
Without fail, motor carriers and freight brokers evaluating technology options will ask providers if they already integrate with existing platforms. If a tech provider can't accommodate this immediate need, they look elsewhere to find someone who answers, “Yes, we do.”
Moving data between systems faster with higher quality and more consistency is now possible with a cloud-based integration platform. When coupled with a white-label software development kit, tech providers can accommodate customer needs quickly and affordably. For instance, they can:
Tranztec Construct is an integration and white-label logistics management platform that delivers all of these benefits immediately. The robust, ready-to-go solution unlocks data trapped between systems with API and EDI connections. The pre-built components of the platform include a drag-and-drop user dashboard interface, a mobile driver app, workflow dashboards, and an embedded developer app, Blockly from Google, to apply “if-then” logic to any process.
Tech providers looking to set themselves up for near- and long-term success with customers and competitors can do so with the power and adaptability of the Tranztec Construct platform.