Halton Housing Trust has revolutionised the work-life balance of its staff with the introduction of virtual desktop technology that allows them to work wherever they have access to the internet. Halton Housing’s new infrastructure is based on Sun Ray zero-client devices which have been installed on every desk in the organisation and integrate with its…
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Beating the Budget
On 22 June 2010, Chancellor George Osborne made his first budget speech to the House of Commons in which he pledged to ‘balance the books’ by 2016, slashing a massive £11 billion from the annual public expenditure bill, with £1.8 billion being earmarked for savings in social housing in this parliamentary term alone. I think…
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Sharing map data
Housing managers often face a costly and time-consuming task when sharing licensed mapping data with their contractors. Now, geographical web services can help keep the process both quick and legal. Housing providers have contracts with all manner of suppliers including grounds maintenance firms, architects, surveyors, engineers, planners and environmental consultants, and geographic information is an…
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GIS at Parkway Green
Parkway Green Housing Trust has deployed a web-based mapping and reporting system from GeoSolveIT. Based on award-winning GeoSamba technology, Parkway Green can now map and analyse its ongoing asset improvement programme, maintain grounds maintenance records, profile neighbourhoods and show voids. All Parkway staff will have access to the system via an intranet. Ian Gregg, director,…
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£5,000 NLPG property & asset management by subscription
Aligned Assets’ Symphony PMS property and asset management system is now available through an annual subscription of less than £5,000. For housing providers, Symphony can be supplied pre-populated with data from the National Land and Property Gazetteer (NLPG), giving access to the UPRNs necessary for NROSH submissions. In local authority use, Symphony is fully BS7666…
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Triple win for CorVu
Homes for Northumberland, Rochdale Boroughwide Housing and Inquilab Housing Association have all begun implementations of CorVu’s performance management system and are expected to go live towards the end of 2010. Chris Thompson, performance and policy manager, Homes for Northumberland, said, “Having all of our performance information in one place will be invaluable and we look…
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