Aareon UK has announced that Together Housing Group and Raven Housing Trust have both chosen its QL Housing system. Together Housing Group, which comprises Trans-Pennine Housing, Chevin Housing and Prospect Homes and manages more than 35,000 properties, intends to replace the different housing management systems currently used by its members and standardise its operations onto…
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Editor’s Notes: Now we are four – Future trends
This issue marks the end of our fourth year of publishing Housing Technology, and despite the wider economy, technology developments in the social housing sector have never looked rosier. Not only is housing higher on the agenda at the most senior levels of government, our view is that the sector’s adoption and use of IT…
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Video: Housing Technology Conference – February 2012
The third Housing Technology conference and executive forum will take place at the brand new Conference Aston venue in the centre of Birmingham on Thursday 23 February 2012.
Peabody spends £70k on Touchstone procurement
Peabody Trust is completing the implementation of a new procurement and financial management system from Touchstone. The long-term project, which began in 2008, has involved the integration of Touchstone’s Proactis procurement software with Peabody’s existing SunSystems financial system. Touchstone reported that the contract value was in the region of £70,000. In common with many housing…
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Sovereign launches datacentre service
With the launch of its new Data CentrePlus service, Sovereign Business Integration is expanding its services to provide co-location, hosting, managed IT and outsourced IT services. The new ‘Metro Point’ data centre is 14 miles north of central London and within the M25. Richard Barker, CEO, Sovereign Business Integration, said, “We have been offering data-centre…
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Auditing your IT suppliers
When was the last time you audited your IT providers and their supply chains? For most housing providers, they haven’t done so since the original tendering process or during the award of the contract. Increasingly, procurement processes cover whether the prospective supplier has a business continuity plan, and whether it has been used or at…
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