While not strictly housing-specific, a recent Gartner report proposes some thought-provoking IT trends. The ‘Top Predictions for IT Organizations and Users, 2011 and Beyond: IT’s Growing Transparency’ report suggests that by 2015: Information-smart businesses will increase recognised IT spending per head by 60 per cent. New revenue generated each year by IT will determine the…
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Value for money leads to innovation
As one of the sponsors of the Housing Technology 2011 ‘Blueprint for IT’ market intelligence report, we were very keen to see this year’s publication and to see how themes and trends are developing in the housing sector. This year’s report provides excellent analysis of the direction of the market and a very clear message…
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Free Ordnance Survey mapping
Ordnance Survey data, including OS MasterMap products, is now free at the point of use for thousands of public-sector organisations in England and Wales, and no longer subject to limits on re-use when used internally within the public sector for public-sector activities. Under the new Public Sector Mapping Agreement, at least 750 public-sector users of…
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Capita buys Tribal’s housing division
Tribal Group has sold its health and government consulting businesses, which include its housing division, to Capita Group for just under £16 million. In the consolidated accounts for Tribal to the end of 2010, the health and government businesses had combined gross assets of almost £72 million and combined operating losses of £2.7 million. Following…
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£400,000 Tunstall telecare at Saxon Weald
Saxon Weald has spent around £400,000 on a new telecare system from Tunstall Healthcare at its Downlands Court ‘extra care’ retirement housing in West Sussex. Tunstall’s Communicall Connect system now allows staff to communicate with residents around the clock through speech modules installed in both individual flats and communal areas. A range of sensors increase…
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Managing communication costs
Nick Hoareau from Siemens takes a look at an increasingly complex ICT environment and considers the business value of a move to managed services within the housing sector. On March 25 2011, the Chancellor’s second Budget outlined his ‘jobs and growth’ vision for economic recovery. Promising radical reforms to the planning system and powerful financial…
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