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Posted on June 1, 2022 | Updated on October 27, 2022

Ochsner Health Selects Purple Digital Wayfinding System to Enrich Patient, Visitor, and Staff Experience

Ochsner Health has selected Purple’s Digital Wayfinding solution to be integrated into their flagship hospital, Ochsner Medical Center, located at 1514 Jefferson Highway in greater New Orleans. The digital wayfinding solution is aimed at improving the overall experience for patients, visitors, and staff. It integrates with the MyOchsner App to provide on-site walking directions. In…

Posted on April 21, 2022 | Updated on April 25, 2022

Purple Strengthens Future With New Board Appointment

Manchester-based technology company, Purple, has secured the services of Chris Dedicoat, former Executive Vice President (EVP) for multinational corporation Cisco, as a non-executive director. As EVP for Worldwide Sales & Field Operations, Chris led a global team to help drive revenue worth over $47bn. He spent 23 years at the California-headquartered company, during which time…

indoor location services - indoor location technologies - indoor location based services

Posted on February 28, 2022 | Updated on May 18, 2022

What are Indoor Location Services?

Indoor location services allow for the tracking of people and objects within a set space through the combination of hardware and software technologies. This is often done to understand the movement of people and reduce the loss of revenue from lost or stolen assets. The Indoor Location Services market as defined by Gartner – “……

Posted on July 13, 2021

Purple named ‘Market Leader’ for Enterprise WiFi Solutions category

The Featured Customers Summer 2021 report has been released, and surprise surprise, Purple’s on the list. Featured Customers is a customer reference platform for B2B business software and services. Each Featured Customers report looks at the very best companies within the highly competitive Enterprise WiFi industry and have 3 structured awards including, ‘Market Leader’, ‘Top…

Posted on March 16, 2021

Purple & UST DataLabs Deliver Geographical Links Between Public WiFi and the Rates in Covid Cases

In February, Purple and UST DataLabs worked together to see if there was a correlation between social behavior and the rates of C19 cases in Manchester, York, and London. Through the combination of an enriched dataset created by UST, detailing the movement of the UK workforce during the pandemic, and Purple data collected from over…

Posted on February 10, 2021 | Updated on March 9, 2021

Appsbroker and Purple Join Forces to Drive Tangible Business Growth for Customers with insightNOW

Appsbroker, one of EMEA’s largest Google-only Managed Services Providers, and Purple, leading provider of intelligent spaces solutions have joined forces to drive tangible business value and growth for their customers through real-time business intelligence solutions. Read on to learn more. Purple is a UK-based technology firm that offers a free WiFi platform enabling businesses to…

Posted on January 4, 2021 | Updated on January 5, 2021

Natural distribution of people through information

The queue, or line if you are over the pond, has a long history. The first format of it was from the 19th century with the industrial revolution as more people gravitated to cities in the UK. Unsurprisingly, having invented it, Britain is world-famous for our orderly queues. There is however a misconception that Brits…

Posted on December 8, 2020 | Updated on December 11, 2020

TripAdvisor’s “Travel Safe” Tools Explained.

I’ve written quite a lot recently about how consumer sentiment towards safety and risk has changed more in the past 9 months than it has for the majority of my life. Until recently safety was a given. If you visited a shop or a restaurant you expected to be safe. No one was banging on…

Posted on December 4, 2020 | Updated on November 22, 2021

What will going to work look like in 2021?

Top 5 tips from the Tech Giants on new ways of working, heard at Web Summit 2020 I’ve just spent 3 days listening to lots of different speakers at the Lisbon Web Summit 2020. As the Wall Street Journal said, it’s where ‘the giants of the web assemble’. This is an event we attend to…

Posted on November 24, 2020 | Updated on December 11, 2020

The litigation for Covid-19 has started, where will it go for employers and business?

As sure as water flows downhill it was inevitable that litigation would flow from the pandemic as lawyers sharpen their teeth and let the blame game begin! I was prompted to write this as I have had a flurry of interest from the PE and VC community, which is great, and they share our theory…

Posted on November 18, 2020 | Updated on December 11, 2020

Purple develops a low-cost solution to occupancy control and visitor counting

Low-cost solution to occupancy control enabling venues to optimize safety, comply with government guidance and offer visual reassurance to visitors by publicly displaying live occupancy numbers The solution connects with hardware that many venues already have installed, whether that’s access points or sensors (typically used for security), so offers an effective and low-cost solution The…

Posted on November 16, 2020 | Updated on December 11, 2020

Analytics for physical spaces, really?

Imagine we’re sat having a beer together and I’m chatting to you about my amazing eCommerce business, you’re naturally curious of course, and ask about how many visitors I have, how often they come, what the conversion rate is, all logical questions given the topic we’re discussing, to which however I look blankly back at…

Posted on November 5, 2020 | Updated on December 11, 2020

The new normal office environment

You don’t know what you don’t know and the world we live in is full of unknowns and there are many people scratching their head and trying to predict what the new normal might be on many fronts. For most physical spaces and most definitely office spaces we do know it won’t be the same…

Posted on August 24, 2020 | Updated on May 4, 2022

US Healthcare patient experience directly linked to increased revenue.

A report produced by Deloitte on the value of patient experience highlighted that Hospitals with a “low” HCAHPS rating (Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems) saw a net margin of 1.8%. Whereas, Hospitals with an “excellent” HCAHPS rating saw a net margin of 4.7% on average, indicating the importance of patient and visitor…

Posted on July 21, 2020

How indoor maps do more than guide people

The importance of place and proximity for people when traveling indoors. In the era of constant connection, we’re used to getting information at the push of a button. Instant updates from friends and family, online ordering, same-day deliveries, rideshare services like Uber and Lyft…the list goes on. Essentially, technology has made life easier, especially when…

Posted on July 15, 2020

Creating a safe and contactless office space for your staff and visitors

Ensure your business is on the right path for moving into a more controlled and contactless world. Coronavirus has become apart of life now and will be for the foreseeable future, with this comes a totally different way of even the simplest things, such as heading into the office for a days work. As a…