Housing services provider Altwood Group is using an app, running on iPads, from StaySafe Business to protect its staff and monitor their safety using GPS and alerts. The StaySafe Business app and surrounding cloud-based monitoring service tracks a lone worker’s location via GPS and alerts their manager if they don’t check-in within a specified time….
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Cloud Dialogs gets Network Housing mobile in just six weeks
Since January 2015, neighbourhood officers at Network Housing Group started using tablets to record tenant information, safety and building checks, and estate inspections. This follows the housing provider’s decision to implement an integrated mobile solution from Cloud Dialogs to replace its inefficient paper-based processes and forms. The entire implementation process and mobilisation of Network Housing’s…
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Income collection is everyone’s problem
Income collection needs to start as a technology challenge, with the automated elements being made to work harder so that the people element can work smarter, explains John Doyle, managing director of The Housing Contact Company. As the roller coaster of the financial year for housing providers continues its relentless cycle, most income teams find…
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Problems with Right to Buy
Sir – As the election approaches, another day, another promise. The Conservative’s manifesto commitment to give housing association tenants the Right to Buy (RTB) was launched with great fanfare and certainly hit the headlines. But it will also hit very substantial obstacles if the Tories win. They were clearly wooing ‘hard-working’ people in an attempt…
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QlikView & Castle boost Rockingham Forest’s performance
Rockingham Forest Housing has completed the implementation of a business intelligence solution from Qlikview to run over its OmniLedger housing management system in order to deliver more timely and accurate performance reports. The implementation was carried out by Castle Computer Services. The housing provider reported that, before the introduction of the Qlikview system, it was…
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Why agile is the answer for Circle Housing
In an era of change, housing providers must evolve to keep pace with developments in the housing sector, in an environment of increased financial pressures created by a lack of reliable funding, continuing welfare policy changes and to help meet the ever-growing need for housing. We must also respond to the demands of our tenants…
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