A new partnership announcement was announced by WiFi SPARK in 2021. After a year of big changes for the company including being acquired by the Volaris Group at the end of 2020, the Exeter-based company is excited to learn from and partner with industry leaders in the incredible British technology field. A new partnership with Dorset-based information and technology company Ensign Communications Ltd will allow WiFi SPARK to elevate its network offering with the expertise of Ensign and its 30 years of experience.  

Premiering their partnership with a 28-location project alongside English Heritage, Ensign and WiFi SPARK are able to provide the heritage sites with WiFi SPARK’s signature User Experience and comprehensive support packages working on top of a network of more than 100 Aruba 500 Series access points.  

The core value for English Heritage lies in their ability to now create personalised engagements with their visitors through their Ensign facilitated Aruba Network, presenting valuable demographic-based analytics enabling English Heritage to improve the experience of their visitors. Content filtering, analytics and a diligent Service Desk round off the solution allowing for an entirely managed service within which English Heritage can grow and expand on in the future. The endeavour showcases the symbiotic nature of the two solutions working seamlessly to connect thousands of the people across the country this summer.

About Ensign Communications Ltd

Founded in 1987, Ensign leverages technology to drive business insights allowing their clients to drive performance and monetise their networks. Ensign’s work centres around an ingrained desire to bring innovation and excellence to their clients and partners. With its employees being experts in their fields, Ensign has shown that to drive better business outcomes and allow clients to realise their ambitions, leveraging technology through innovation is a winning recipe. 

Through established long-term partnerships with leading technology vendors and distributors, including with WiFi SPARK and Hewlett-Packard's Aruba solution, Ensign ensures that its clients have access to the most innovative solutions available, underpinned by an outstanding and unmatched level of expertise and client experience.  

Clients of Ensign’s include retail titan Sainsbury’s who in 2004 turned to the network specialist as they looked to re-evaluate their direction focusing in on distribution, logistics and staffing initiatives. Ensign was able to provide wireless LAN infrastructures within hundreds of Sainsbury’s stores across the UK. With technological innovation streamlining Sainsburys’ ‘new direction’, Ensign wrapped the solution with 24/7 on-site support services and continuous improvements to ensure the infrastructure remained at the highest level of performance.  

Read Ensign’s full Sainsbury’s case study here.  

Commenting on the partnership Stuart Edmondson, Head of Marketing at Ensign said: “Ensign are passionate about developing partnerships with best of breed ‘industry leaders’ in order to collaboratively share expertise and best practices; with the sole objective of adding further value to our clients. Following extensive due diligence of similar solutions in the UK market, Ensign recognised a partnership with WiFi SPARK would be the perfect fit, allowing us to create better venues and better experiences for our clients and their customer base”. 

After a successful first campaign together, the future looks bright for the new partners.  

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