Futures Housing Group and Southern Housing Group have both announced the successful introduction of self-service tenant portals from Orchard Information Systems. Amber Valley Housing and Daventry and District Housing, subsidiaries of Futures Housing Group, have launched a tenant self- service portal. The portal is based on the Self Service Portal product from Orchard, AVH’s existing…
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Magazine Articles
Streamlining processes & improving service effectiveness
There is continued pressure for housing providers to be more responsive in handling calls from their residents within the confines of limited budgets. It is therefore not surprising that efficiency and effectiveness are two words you always hear when speaking to contact centre managers. Peter Graddon, a director of Omfax Systems, discusses how to improve…
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Cheshire Peaks & Plains calls in Britannic
Cheshire Peaks and Plains Housing Trust has replaced its ageing telephony system with a IP-based system from Mitel, with the project planning and implementation carried out by Britannic Technologies. The impetus for the change to the Mitel system was Cheshire Peaks’ need to view the performance of its 24-hour call centre and deliver statistics on…
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Digital Dale project at Teesdale Housing
Teesdale Housing Association, part of North Star Housing Group, is working to deliver Wimax broadband to all residential and business premises in the Teesdale area through its ‘Digital Dale’ project. The Digital Dale service installed by Networks by Wireless will be delivered via a number of transmitters across Teesdale and, unlike regular broadband services from…
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Housing intranets and extranets – simple, fresh & clear
Few weeks go by without another new software solution aimed at solving an age-old problem faced by private and public sector organisations alike: namely, how to make policies and procedures easily available to all staff and how to keep them up to date. But against the backdrop of spending cuts and uncertainty over further financial…
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No complaints for East Durham with Liquid Voice
East Durham Homes has completed the installation of an organisation-wide call- recording system from Liquid Voice to improve its handling of complaints and resolving customer disputes. From a security and dispute resolution perspective, East Durham Homes’ aim is to record all inbound calls, around 10,500 per month, with the emphasis on performance improvements focused on…
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