Real Asset Management has announced that Cardiff Community Housing, South Yorkshire Housing Association and Worthing Homes are set to use its Asset4000 system to support component accounting and for compliance with the Statement of Recommended Practice (SORP) which takes effect from April 2012. Under the new SORP guidelines, housing providers will have to divide their…
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Southern Housing gets Orchard e-procurement
Orchard Information Systems has completed the installation of an e-procurement system at Southern Housing Group. In addition to supplying the necessary software tools, Orchard was closely involved in educating SHG’s staff on the benefits of e-procurement and ensuring the new system was widely and correctly adopted by the relevant users. As part of the pre-implementation…
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Orchard’s ‘housing headache’ results
Further to our story on Orchard Information Systems’ ‘finance headache’ survey (see May 2011 issue), the company also polled delegates at the CIH 2011 housing conference on their biggest ‘housing headaches’. A live SMS-based survey found that delivering value for money remains the current hot topic, with 35 per cent of respondents citing it as…
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Melin Homes signs 5-year contract with Capita
Melin Homes plans to align the operations of its housing management, direct works and finance teams using an integrated platform from Capita Software Services. The five-year contract includes the provision of Capita’s OpenHousing, OpenContractor and OpenFinancials products. The combined Capita system will provide direct online access to the most recent tenancy information, feedback into Melin…
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Government Procurement Service adds Aareon & Civica
Aareon UK and Civica have both been awarded framework agreements by Government Procurement Services, formerly Buying Solutions, for the provision of IT services to public-sector companies, with both companies specifically covered to deliver solutions to UK housing providers. The benefits of the Government Procurement Service framework for public-sector companies and housing providers include a fast…
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Spectrum Housing saves £250k with MIS ActiveH
Spectrum Housing Group has completed the final migration of all its subsidiary RSLs onto a single instance of the MIS ActiveH housing management system. The project was completed in July 2011 and ActiveH now holds details on all of Spectrum’s 18,000 properties in a single Microsoft SQL Server database. The project began in September 2009…
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