Progress Housing Group is using Tall Group’s CheckPrint software to replace the continuous stationery-based cheques and normal cheques used to pay suppliers and issue refunds to tenants for over-payments. Progress Housing issues cheques on behalf of several subsidiaries across multiple bank accounts, and often needs to match cheques with separate letters before mailing. As well…
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Money in, money out
As we mention in our feature article and focus on technology for risk management (pages 24-28), performance management and risk management can be considered as two sides of the same coin. While performance management software enables housing providers to fine-tune and quantify their operations for greater productivity and efficiency, risk management software gives them the…
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ERP or not ERP?
It was interesting to note during the panel discussion at the Housing Technology 2014 conference in February that the panel was divided on the question of using ‘standard’ ERP systems, such as from SAP or Oracle, instead of standalone applications for repairs, housing, finance, CRM and so on. One perspective was that the difficulties of…
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Too cool for school
As survey after survey shows the changing demographics of internet access among tenants and the different ways they do so, it is becoming apparent that for many younger tenants, their smartphone is the internet and that they feel no need for any other devices to access the internet. Furthermore, ‘Generation Y’ is much more likely…
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Front-line housing staff under pressure from welfare reform
Welfare reform, lack of housing supply and the increasing gap between income and housing costs are having the biggest impact on front-line housing roles according to new research. The UK-wide research across over 1,000 tenants and housing professionals, commissioned by the Chartered Institute of Housing and Wheatley Group, found that front-line workers want their employers…
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Will the new data protection rules expose your insecurities?
From Paul Wood, assistant director of Montal IT Consulting. A survey done by the UK Information Commissioners office in May 2013 among 506 staff who described themselves as having responsibility for Data Protection showed that not one of them could accurately describe the effect the new European legislation would have on the current Data Protection…
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