Seren Group has completed the implementation of a centralised document repository from Invu to give staff immediate access to all tenant and housing documentation. After a two-month implementation, the Invu electronic document management system went live in August 2010, followed by six-months of back-scanning Seren’s documents. Invu reported that the total cost of the project,…
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Component accounting – leave it to the professionals
With the impending SoRP deadline looming in April 2012, housing providers are under increasing pressure to implement a model for component accounting that reduces costs and enables them to manage their assets more efficiently to ensure SoRP compliance. However, component accounting and asset management are often mistaken for the same thing in the housing sector,…
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Southern Housing implements BluTek sales & marketing system
Southern Housing Group has begun using a web-based ‘software as a service’ system from BluTek for its property sales and marketing activities. Mark Sutton, sales and marketing director, Southern Housing Group, said, “When we began our initiative to improve efficiency and increase income from the sale and marketing of our property portfolios, we knew we…
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Antonine’s SoRP compliance plans with RAM
Antonine Housing Association is implementing Real Asset Management’s Asset4000 component accounting software in readiness for the April 2012 deadline for SoRP compliance. From April 2012, housing providers will have to break their asset accounting down into individual components; anything that is currently deemed replaceable, such as a roof or bathroom, will count as an individual…
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Guinness Northern Counties charges ahead with Opus IT
Guinness Northern Counties has gone live with service charge management software from Opus Information Technology and has just completed its first set of accounts for its rented and right-to-buy properties. The customised Ensemble software from Opus IT extends Guinness Northern Counties’ existing Falcon tool for service charge management developed by Opus IT in 2007, covering…
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Kypera Housing v.2.6 launched
Just a few months after Kypera launched what it claimed was the first housing management system to use Microsoft .NET throughout (see Housing Technology, July 2011), the company has now released an updated version of Kypera Housing (v2.6) with additional functionality. The new additions include: Service charge enhancements to cover different charge group cycles and…
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