I have recently been thinking about the majority of housing systems being used by housing providers. It seems to me that almost all of the systems we use were designed and built in the last century. Although it’s true that these systems have been developed, extended and modified continually over their lifecycles, we should not…
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Magazine Articles
Regenda’s new Orchard intranet
Orchard has completed the installation of a new intranet at Regenda, based on its new .NET-based Orchard Content Management product, urgently replacing Regenda’s previous intranet which had significant problems. The project began in December 2011 and was completed in February 2012. Regenda now has a stable intranet that is used by all staff, with functionality…
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Bernicia picks Orchard web platform
The Bernicia Group has completed the implementation of a number of new systems from Orchard, based on the software provider’s Vestri web platform. The new systems cover Bernicia’s internal and external web presence, performance management and collaboration. Orchard Content Management is being used for two external websites for Bernicia Group and its leasehold management company,…
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Civica & Affinity Sutton merge housing infrastructure
Affinity Sutton and Civica have completed an 18-month project to deliver a single technology infrastructure and common set of business applications following the merger of three of Affinity Sutton’s major housing associations, between them comprising 22 separate corporate entities. William Sutton, Downland and Broomleigh housing associations’ business operations and housing stock are now managed using…
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Industry interview – Aareon
Housing Technology interviewed Stephen Makin, managing director of Aareon UK, about the specialist nature of many IT suppliers, the future of joined up technologies and how regulators and housing providers could benefit from IT suppliers’ front-line experience. Given the size of the UK social housing sector, are there too many or too few IT suppliers…
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Editor’s Notes: Universal reform
The impact of the Welfare Reform Bill and the related introduction of Universal Credit are likely to be high on all housing providers’ agendas. Regardless of one’s views concerning the efficacy of the Bill, at the highest level Universal Credit will have two main impacts. The first is that direct payments to housing benefit claimants…
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