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The Ins and Outs of College WiFi
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Coastal museum entrusts Purple to connect visitors and capture valuable insights
Visitors to The Oceanographic Museum of Monaco can now use free on-site WiFi to share posts on social media, browse the web and connect with friends, whilst the attraction collects highly valuable visitor information thanks to a WiFi and analytics solution from Purple. The cliffside attraction located 85 metres above…

Closing the gap between your online and offline customer data
Are you capturing customer data from your physical spaces? If not, you could be missing a trick. With the rise of online sales and convenience buying, offline seems to have taken a back seat, with businesses now focusing solely on collecting customer data from the online space. The problem… …offline…

Cleveland Metroparks now has the ability to capture more in-depth customer insights than ever before thanks to Purple
Purple, the intelligent spaces company, and Cisco have helped Cleveland Metroparks to become cleverly connected, enabling visitors to access a seamless WiFi network whilst capturing valuable data about their target audiences. Cleveland Metroparks boasts more than 300 miles of trails, eight golf courses, eight lakefront parks and a nationally-acclaimed zoo.…

CityConnectWiFi a success during Tour De France
Visitors and residents in York can now enjoy free unlimited WiFi whilst out and about in the city centre. Phase One of the solution, which was provided by North, was perfectly timed for the arrival of the Tour De France. The Tour De France passed through York on Sunday 6th…

Cisilion paints the world Purple
New partnership between the global system integrator and intelligent spaces company Thursday 10th March, 2016: Purple, the intelligent spaces company, today announced its partnership with Cisilion, the global system integrator delivering next generation IT infrastructure that transforms the way businesses work. Purple’s platform allows Cisilion to deliver real-time analytical insight…

Press release: Chuanhow Technology announces agreement with Purple WiFi
Chuanhow Technology 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. Purple WiFi provides businesses with enterprise guest WiFi which meets all legal requirements while delivering rich analytical information about the…

The effects on children and the internet
Like it or not, children and the internet go hand-in-hand and the digital world plays a massive part in most youngsters day-to-day lives. Most kids know how to answer a question by completing a Google search instead of asking their parents and most toddlers know how to swipe a screen on a smartphone.…

The Channel Purple – reseller news update
Purple WiFi shocking survey results In an effort to further understand the nature of how organisations in our key target sectors provide guest WiFi, and to ascertain new sales and marketing opportunities for our reseller partners, we have conducted a global survey of over 3500 organisations in retail, leisure and…

Channel 4 News features Purple WiFi
Our CEO, Gavin Wheeldon and I had a busy day out of the office last week filming with Channel 4 News. Having read about what we do within the retail sector, one of the programme’s journalists wanted to come and see Purple WiFi in action, for himself. So, we decided…

Newly Certified Partner to promote Purple at leading U.S. conference
Von Technologies, a newly Certified Purple Partner, is set to attend the largest U.S. conference for female business owners to discuss business trends, innovative technology disruptors and WiFi analytics at an interactive workshop. The Chicago based IT company focuses on technology deployments, network infrastructure, and managed intelligent wireless networks and…

Newly Certified Partner, Digital Avenue, set to make a big impression in the events space
Purple, the intelligent spaces company, has announced its certified partnership with Digital Avenue, who is using its WiFi and analytics solution to capture valuable visitor data for organisers of popular events. Digital Avenue is the industry leader in the rapid deployment of robust event WiFi, scalable temporary internet and live…

We certainly turned Harvey Nichols Purple
Future of Customer Engagement for Retailers Event at Harvey Nichols Fantastic turn out (in fact, standing room only!) for our event last week, which took place on the 5th floor of Harvey Nics in London and was all about the future of retail. Lovely to see so many trusted partners,…

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…

CentraCare Partners with Purple to Implement a New Digital Wayfinding Solution to Support Patient Experience at St. Cloud Hospital
CentraCare selected Purple's digital wayfinding solution to directly improve the visitor and patient experience as well as operational staff efficiencies.