factsheet - enterprise wifi-as-a-service
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SINGTEL BUSINESS - PRODUCT FACTSHEETENTERPRISE WIFI-AS-A-SERVICE
Whatever business you are in, you are really in the business of making your customers happy. Offering WiFi connectivity at your premise - a chic café, the latest indie store, world-famous tourist attraction, award-winning hotel or the neighbourhood bank branch - can make a real difference to customer experience. Beyond enterprise-grade WiFi connectivity, we provide value-added analytics that uncover customer insights and tell you so much more.
SingTel Enterprise WiFi-as-a-Service helps businesses enrich customer experiences, enhance business agility, and extend market reach with intelligent business analytics and our one-stop managed services.
Going Beyond Connectivity. That’s the Only Way to Keep Up.
Overview: SingTel Enterprise WiFi-as-a-Service
Features
Insight. Inspire. Innovate
Service Sectors: Retail, F&B, Hospitality
Enterprise Sector: Corporate Offices
Financial Sector: Banks
Specifications
Why SingTel
Knowing Your Business is Our Business
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Going Beyond Connectivity. That’s the Only Way to Keep Up.
Staying connected regardless of where one is, has become a given these days. Whether at work or at play, today’s new digital consumers expect to stay productive and be entertained while being connected to the Internet at all times. Beyond that, customers expect not just free WiFi, but also quality WiFi connections.
Overview: SingTel Enterprise WiFi-as-a-Service
SingTel Enterprise WiFi-as-a-Service is a cost - effective and scalable enterprise-grade WLAN service that helps businesses improve end-userexperience with insights from intelligent business analytics. Delivered via the SingTel Cloud, our Enterprise WiFi-as-a-Service comes with one-stop managed services, including: WLAN configuration, network implementation, hardware and software management, operation and maintenance.
Backed by our extensive Asia-Pacific presence, you are assured of good support and easy deployment across your regional offices and retail network. Providing easy, centralised IT management via a secure, online portal, Enterprise WiFi-as-a-Service offers a rich suite of customisable functionalities, designed to help businesses better understand their customers’ profile, grow their business, and sharpen their competitive advantage.
SingTel Enterprise WiFi-as-a-Service
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Leapfrog the Competition with Unprecedented Wireless Connectivity
Offering WiFi is more than enabling email or Internet access. As a competitive advantage, it directly impacts your customer experience – especially for establishments such as retail outlets, restaurants, cafes, tourist attractions, hotels, banks, to name a few.
Since this is a necessary investment, you should further maximise your Return on Investment (ROI) by leveraging this new way of life to learn more about your customers. Looking to better engage them via social media, get them to stay longer at your premise (and spend more), or entice them to come back again and again? A quality WiFi platform may be able to all that for you, while also optimising the delivery of new services such as voice and video to build better brand image and corporate reputation over time.
Establishing seamless WiFi connectivity can help you stay ahead of the curve in today’s Internet age. Beyond Internet connection, it offers a unique platform for innovation, efficiencies and business opportunities.
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Features
Enterprise-grade, high speed WiFi access with seamless WiFi access and automatic sign-in at related hotspots. Enables traffic segregation for public versus private usage, such as Service Set Identifier (SSID) segregation for core business usage (eg. sending of customer’s food and beverage orders from waiter’s tablet to kitchen, etc.) versus bandwidth available for customers’ usage while within restaurant.
Captive login portal with questionnaires turns your web browser into an authentication device. Offers hassle-free login methods and secure one-time password (OTP) for added assurance. Enables businesses to set up customisable captive login portals with own, distinctive branding and customisable short surveys. Collect, save and link customer responses to your company’s customer relationship management (CRM) systems to support targeted marketing activities.
Customised dashboard enables businesses to view and analyse:
Enhanced digital marketing capabilities support go-to-market activities including:
Social media capabilities enable integrated WiFi sign-on platform by setting up your business FB page as splash page for WiFi login; Encourage and track FB Likes count; Provide insights into aggregate demographic data from ‘check-ins’ and more.
User analytics collected from captive login portal and simple questionnaires, including age group and gender segmentation, top usage areas which can be useful for marketers to perform a more effective event-driven marketing activities.
Technical analytics for centralised IT management of WLAN, including network capacity planning review via utilisation of Access Points (APs), tracking of end-users’ WLAN device type, etc.
Consolidated footfall and heat-map via dashboard provides insights into specific store traffic andconsumer behaviour information including: average dwell time, shop front traffic, in-store traffic,new versus repeat visitors, etc. Records historical data for better comparison and analysis.
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Send ‘welcome’ emails to users/customers who have subscribed to be on your mailing list.
Send ‘targeted eDMs’ based on custom criteria (eg. birthday month, age, etc.) via standard eDM templates.
Track eDM campaign’s effectiveness via automated click-through count and Facebook (FB) Likes count tracker.
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SingTel Enterprise WiFi-as-a-Service
Insight. Inspire. Innovate
Service Sectors: Retail, F&B, Hospitality The service business is all about feeling your customers’ pulse and driving traffic to your premise. Whether you are a retail store, an award-winning restaurant or a renowned hotel, you need to learn all about your customers’ footfall, lifestyle preferences and more, to make informed decisions. SingTel Enterprise WiFi-as-a-Service gives you new perspectives from useful analytics, not just random statistics.
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DEPARTMENT STOREIt’s not just about price. Customers return when you have the right offer, at the right time, for the right products.
It’s all about how well you spot trends and behaviours, and devise marketing programmes that shape demand. Do you know your customers’ preferences and map them to the inventory you are stocking? How about the frequency, duration and even timing and length of your customers’ visits?
Post an advertisement on your captive login portal, featuring your latest promotions.
Design a simple questionnaire to gather your customers’ views, preferences, shopping behaviour, etc. Encourage customers to subscribe as a member.
Use dashboard to gather useful analytics about your customers. Learn which specific section of your store attracts the heaviest footfall and relevant heat-map information.
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Gain powerful insights into customer preferences and buying behaviour via presence-based data, to empower data-driven decision-making.
Enhance effectiveness of in-store promotions with measurable advertising, eDM campaigns and other marketing activities.
Enable smarter product placement to drive traffic flow and direct footfall within store.
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RESTAURANT / CAFÉAs the new kid on the block, you need to go beyond ensuring that your food tastes good and your staff well-trained. More importantly, you need to do everything you can to drive customer traffic to your restaurant/café.
What are you actively doing to increase foot traffic to your restaurant? Do you know which type of promotion is effective in getting new customers to step into your new café? Eg. Birthday offers, 1-for-1 promotions, etc.
Reach customers on their mobile phones, encourage ‘likes’ and ‘check-ins’ via integrated Facebook WiFi login.
Post advertisements on your captive login portal or push notifications via mobile phones to encourage the download of coupons or special one-time password for discounts.
Use dashboard to know customers’ demographics, lifestyle preferences and more.
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Enable closer customer engagement and seamless, on-brand customer experience via omni-channel selling on mobile devices, Facebook page, brochures, eDMs, etc.
Increase brand awareness by encouraging ‘likes’ and ‘check-ins’ during Facebook WiFi login.
Build consistent brand image across both online and offline presence.
Gain insights into customer information to drive more effective marketing campaigns that work.
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Enterprise Sector: Corporate OfficesWorkplace efficiency fuels business agility in today’s hyper-competitive marketplace. Providing a workplace that encourages collaboration, supports Bring-Your-Own-Device (BYOD) initiatives and allows staff to work wherever in the office – makes a real difference to staff satisfaction, productivity and subsequently, service levels. That’s not all. You can further improve business efficiencies by leveraging WiFi technology to streamline process-intensive areas in your business such as your warehouse. Add it all up – and you will see how SingTel Enterprise WiFi-as-a-Service increases business agility, to help you put smiles on your customers’ faces – every day.
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CORPORATE OFFICE WITH WAREHOUSEYour warehouse is the pivotal point where goods get picked and packed before orders are delivered and fulfilled. The efficiency of its operations directly impacts customer experience.
How can you leverage wireless technology to turn your warehouse into a sleek outfit?
Integrate wireless RFID hand-held scanner to capture inventory movement, record pick-and-pack status, etc.
Enable direct system updates from wireless mobile devices (eg. RFID hand-held scanner) without relying on manual data-entry, forms, etc.
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Ensure data accuracy by eliminating data-entry errors.
Empower near, real-time updates on documents for management reporting and faster decision-making.
Increase operational efficiencies with improved staff productivity, shorter turnaround time and faster time-to-market.
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VENUE OWNER AND HOTELSYou have an impressive tourist attraction or hotel with newly-renovated facilities designed to wow.
What can you do to drive on-site foot traffic, increase guest loyalty and attract new customers? Do you have a way to capture new leads through event-driven interaction?
Offer in-park or in-house guest WLAN login via integrated Facebook login pages.
Send eDMs (using standard templates) as periodic updates to subscribed members with information on on-going promotions, seasonal offers, etc.
Send eDMs (using standard templates) on special occasions such as birthdays and anniversaries to build customer loyalty.
Run targeted eDM campaigns (using standard templates) for specific demographics (eg. ladies only, frequent visitors, etc.).
Use dashboard to track click-through rates of your eDM campaigns.
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Enhance guest experience with in-park or in-house guest WLAN login via integrated Facebook login pages.
Drive traffic to your tourist attraction and/or hotel through targeted, timely campaigns via eDMs or mobile devices.
Empower informed, data-driven decisions to enable most effective foot traffic across locations, increase average basket size, etc.
Generate new leads through event-driven interaction via Facebook page.
Create new revenue streams to offer more guest services and enhance customer experience.
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Financial Sector: BanksYour bank branches should never be staid places where people come in, complete a transaction and leave. While customers are queuing to open a bank account or waiting for a loan approval, why not put a smile on their faces by helping them pass their waiting time productively? Let SingTel Enterprise WiFi-as-a-Service show you new ways to up your service ante - just the way your customers like it.
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BANK BRANCHOffering WiFi at your branches can help to improve customer experience.
However, you also need to ensure that bandwidth is segregated between staff and customers/visitors for protection against security breaches. How can you achieve all these and more with WiFi?
Offer guest WLAN service and encourage visitors to sign up during branch visit.
Segment users into different SSIDs.
Secure staff versus guests/visitors’ access with integrated firewall.
Monitor bandwidth utilisation and wireless user registration via dashboard.
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Prevent security breach with bandwidth segmentation.
Enhance security with built-in firewall, while assuring network performance.
Ease IT management with convenient bandwidth monitoring via centralised management portal.
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CORPORATE OFFICE WITH BYOD INITIATIVEAllowing staff to bring their own devices to work has become one of the biggest dilemmas businesses face today.
How can you enjoy the best of both worlds – by supporting your Generation-Z staff’s preference to use their own devices, while ensuring network security and secure access to corporate applications?
Manage mobile devices and network configuration via dashboard.
Segment users into different SSIDs.
Secure employee versus guest access with integrated firewall.
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Ease IT management and increase visibility with easy deployment, network configuration and device monitoring via dashboard reporting.
Assure network performance with bandwidth segmentation into public versus private users.
Ensure secure network access to prevent security breaches.
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SingTel Enterprise WiFi-as-a-Service
Specifications
We understand that you need solutions that are flexible enough to support your changing business needs as you grow. That is why our wireless services are available in two options: Wireless@SG and Enterprise WiFi-as-a-Service.
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Features WIRELESS@SG ENTERPRISE WIFI-AS-A-SERVICE
Login Portal Standard Wireless@SG login portal • Captive login portal (customised in accordance to customer’s branding)
Analytics Tools Basic user analytics • Comprehensive user analytics• Footfall• Heat map• Simple questionnaire• Captive portal login with enhanced user analytics reports• Marketing analytics Tools such as social media login • Technical Analytics Tools
Coverage Singapore only: Comply with IDA’s stringent program standards.
• Asia Pacific
Why SingTel
Scalability and cost-efficiencyFree up high upfront capital expenditure with SingTel’s user-friendly pay-as-you-grow model. Enjoy scalability to grow with your business, while optimising cost efficiency with easy budgeting and forecasting with monthly, all-in-one bills.
Business agility with fast deploymentGet up and running with fast deployment and turnaround time. Scale easily by adding Access Points (APs) when required. Increase agility with customisable front-end APIs that enable faster roll-out of new services to better serve customers.
Enterprise-grade performanceEnjoy enterprise-grade, high-speed WiFi access, with dedicated bandwidth and speed. Segregate staff from guest/customer access to prevent performance degradation and potential security breaches.
Centralised management, monitoring and control Enhance control and centralise monitoring via one online portal which offers centralised view of all APs, easy accessibility of reports for performance management, network capacity planning, device tracking and more.
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Intelligent business analyticsUnlock valuable knowledge about your customers’ lifestyle preferences, consumer behaviour, footfall, heat map and more, to empower data-driven decisions for more effective marketing.
One-stop ICT solutionRely on us to deliver one-stop managed services including WLAN consultation, end-to-end network implementation, and 24x7 Network Operations Centre single point of contact for support and maintenance.
SingTel Enterprise WiFi-as-a-Service
Knowing Your Business is Our Business
We make it our business to know your business. As
you consider ways to improve customer experience
and grow your business, we know you need the
flexibility and scalability to grow − in Singapore and
across the region – unimpeded by high costs and
tedious deployment.
That is why we offer our Enterprise WiFi-as-a-service
in the cloud – so you can spread your wings when you
are ready, just the way you like it. Backed by proven our infrastructure and trusted industry-leading expertise,
expect nothing less than unprecedented levels of wireless connectivity, as you enhance business agility and
customer satisfaction with us.
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