Orchard Information Systems’ new housing management system has been successfully implemented at Blackpool Coastal Housing, Mosscare Housing, Gloucester City Homes and SLH Group. Following a speedy six-month implementation, Orchard Housing is in place at Blackpool Coastal Housing where it is being used to access information from across the housing provider’s operations, manage it via a…
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Link’s HMS replacement with Aareon
Central Scotland-based Link Group is replacing its existing housing management systems with QL Housing and QL Financials from Aareon. The project, which will transform Link’s services to its 12,000 customers, is due to start later this year. The change of HMS is due to growth in the scale and complexity of Link’s operations which its…
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IT overhaul for St Vincent’s with Omniledger
In a complete overhaul of its existing business applications, Manchester-based St Vincent’s Housing Association has awarded the contract for its entire housing management, repairs and maintenance, and finance systems to Omniledger. Implementation of Omniledger’s Pyramid housing management system is currently underway and is planned to be operational in January 2011. Charlotte Norman, operations director, St…
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Northgate joins national procurement programme
Northgate Information Systems has been awarded a place on the IT Managed Services framework by Buying Solutions, the national procurement partner for UK public services, giving public sector organisations access to a range of Northgate’s services from remote access to fully-managed IT services. Northgate had already been given a place on Buying Solutions’ Applications Solutions…
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City West and Liverpool Mutual launch procurement partnership
City West Housing Trust and Liverpool Mutual Homes have jointly created the 4Site Partnership to increase their combined buying power, resulting in reduced costs and improved services. Based around an OJEU-compliant tendering process and with the involvement of their tenants, City West and LMH have developed framework agreements for construction-related consultancy and project management services…
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i-Talent recruitment tool from ConsultCIH
The Chartered Institute of Housing’s consultancy service, ConsultCIH, has unveiled a free web-based recruitment tool. i-Talent allows housing providers to manage the complete recruitment process, from the decision to fill a vacancy through to making the appointment with a full online application process and candidate tracking. The new system is based on based on Recruit…
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