May 07, 2017 Mi-IDEA: The 6 benefits a start-up can achieve from an accelerator programme by Thomas Young, our Product Manager Earlier this month, Kerry Wright (Purple’s Director of Alliances) and I attended and presented at the Mi-IDEA accelerator, run by Cisco and Manchester Science Park. The night started with an introduction to the accelerator by Tom Kneen, Head of Business Development at Cisco. Tom described the Mi-IDEA accelerator as a ‘Post-Accelerator’ for start-ups that are… Read More
December 23, 2016 Monetizing WiFi Monetizing WiFi (monetising for the Brits) is a rapidly changing landscape. It also has to be looked at from two perspectives, one from the venue where the WiFi is available and the other from the operator who is providing the WiFi service. It wasn’t very long ago that wherever you saw public WiFi you could… Read More
October 04, 2016 WiFi trends in bars and restaurants [Infographic] Technology has become an ever-present part of our day-to-day lives; as consumers we take it for granted that we live in an increasingly connected world. At the heart of this paradigm shift is wireless data, superseding traditional linear methods of communication. Our blog and infographic take a look at the major drivers behind this change… Read More
September 11, 2016 Purple and Cisco team up to launch Better Together campaign Additional 4% discount given to Cisco partners selling Purple Purple, the intelligent spaces company, and Cisco, the largest networking company in the world, today announce the launch of their Better Together Campaign. Better Together allows Cisco partners that are signed up for solution led selling, and who also sell Purple, to benefit from an additional… Read More
July 09, 2016 Purple partners with CenturyLink for Location-Based Analytics launch at Cisco Live, Las Vegas Purple, the intelligent spaces company, and CenturyLink, the global leader in communications, hosting, cloud and IT services, have joined forces. The partnership was formed ahead of CenturyLink’s Location-Based Analytics launch at Cisco Live today. CenturyLink Location-Based Analytics, is a location-based, mobile engagement, analytics and marketing Internet of Things (IoT) solution for owners and operators of… Read More
February 29, 2016 Purple launches new capability based channel partner program February 29th, 2016: Purple WiFi last month rebranded as Purple, the intelligent spaces company, reflecting a wider scope of focus. Coinciding with this, Purple has introduced a new Partner Program to enable partners to gain easy entry into a range of customers, including enterprise targets. Promising new recurring revenue streams, access to budgets outside of… Read More
November 25, 2015 5 key takeaways from Bob Willett’s ‘Presenting to Retail’ global partner webinars We recently invited all of our global partners to an exclusive webinar with Purple WiFi investor and former CEO of Best Buy International, Bob Willett. “Bob Willett is an example of an executive who started on the shop floor.He began at Marks & Spencer in his native United Kingdom in 1968 and would leave that… Read More
November 13, 2015 Guest blog: The Future of Hospitality Guest blog: The Future of Hospitality – Purple WiFi Whether you are scared from the plethora of dystopian science fiction films depicting a dark future or confident you have everything in hand, digital and societal changes are disrupting every business engaged in hospitality. The customer service model can now utilise digital doing the heavy lifting… Read More
November 03, 2015 Purple WiFi provides wireless social login for Pitch@Palace This Monday saw the fourth instalment of the Duke of York’s Pitch@Palace programme, where 15 budding business people make pitches to a gathering of investors in the hope of drumming up support and making connections in high places. The Duke of York founded Pitch@Palace to support Entrepreneurs with the amplification and acceleration of their… Read More
September 29, 2015 The Instillery partners with Purple WiFi The Instillery Group has today confirmed an exciting new partnership with Purple WiFi to become New Zealand’s first Cloud Managed Service Provider for the global social WiFi company. The partnership with Purple WiFi enables the Instillery to better assist businesses across New Zealand and Australia realise the true value of WiFi and cloud technology…. Read More
September 23, 2015 The Future of Bars and Restaurants – leveraging technology to get a competitive advantage When is it? The event will be held on Thursday 22nd October from 2pm at Gilgamesh Bar & Restaurant, in the vibrant London Borough of Camden. So what’s it about? We are taking a good look at how bars and restaurants need to prepare themselves for the future and the technology that we’ll soon… Read More
September 13, 2015 Purple WiFi partners with Trend Vision in India Purple WiFi today announced that it is partnering with Trend Vision LLP in India, adding its cloud-based, social WiFi solution, which includes presence analytics and location-based services, to Trend Vision’s portfolio of products. Trend Vision is Purple WiFi’s first Indian reseller, enabling its expansion into a broad market of key verticals in the India region,… Read More
August 15, 2015 ITGL announces agreement with Purple WiFi ITGL has signed an agreement with innovative social WiFi provider, Purple WiFi, which will see the addition of cloud-based guest WiFi and location analytics solutions to its portfolio of products. ITGL specialises in networking, unified communications and collaboration technologies. Customers are based across the UK and span all sectors. They trust ITGL to provide… Read More
August 09, 2015 Fanalytics: Why the stadium beats the sofa Technology advancements have meant that we can watch games, concerts and sports events easily from our own homes. This was a concern aired in 2012 in an article by Mike Freeman entitled ‘…..a losing battle in keeping fans filling its stadiums’. The fear was that technology was enabling fans to watch from home and… Read More
July 25, 2015 WiFi’s Impact on Retail: Increasing Spend and the Bottom Line Recent research has found that retailers who offer in-store WiFi are seeing the benefits with an increase in their bottom line and an increase in sales. IHL, sponsored by Airtight and Earthlink, carried out research into the use of in-store WiFi: “Impact of Store Networks and WiFi on Customer Experience”. When looking into the influence… Read More
July 21, 2015 Maximising the cloud in the workplace Our blog on BYOD in the workplace suggested that productivity increases if employers allow workers to bring their own device. Employees who wish to use their own devices usually expect that they can and an increasing number of establishments such as hospitals and education are allowing BYOD. In this blog we explore how the increase… Read More
