Notting Hill Housing Group has completed a major master data management project with InforData Consulting to consolidate myriad data sources from across its operations and impose data standards on data input and usage. The four-month programme was completed in March 2014. Before InforData Consulting was engaged, many of the business areas within NHHG had their…
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Shavlik Moves in with Severnside Housing
A new software patch management system from Shavlik and its partner Satisnet is helping Severnside Housing gain greater control of its IT estate and creating more time for the housing provider’s staff to resolve tenants’ queries. The system is expected to ensure that sensitive data is secure and all software is up-to-date to allow employees…
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Gateway appoints Waterstons as IT Partner
Gateway Housing Association has appointed Waterstons as its long term IT partner to work with its in-house IT team to provide first, second and third line support as well as IT governance. The contract began in February 2014 and will run for between three and five years. The delivery of the contract will be coordinated…
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All-inclusive – Tackling digital exclusion in housing
Housing Technology interviewed digital inclusion experts from BT, New Charter Housing, Sovereign Business Integration Group, Trident Social Investment Group and Viridian Housing about how housing providers should tackle digital exclusion and enable more tenants to transact online. Reasons for digital exclusion The reasons for digital exclusion are manifold, but they tend to usually relate to…
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Moving from digital inclusion to digital diversification
We know digital exclusion still exists, although it is steadily decreasing, with the majority of the digitally excluded aged 65+. However the argument about getting these people online is becoming less vocal, so perhaps the smart move would be to simply enable the people who support and care for those still offline to mediate digitally…
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Salix Homes scoops NFA award for helping tenants get online
Salix Homes has won an award from the National Federation of ALMOs (NFA) in recognition of its 2014 ‘connecting customers’ project, which teaches tenants essential IT skills and money management to help prepare them for the introduction of universal credit. The project is now being introduced across Salford. Tenants identified by Salix Homes as unemployed…
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