In a project valued at £150,000 and due to be completed by April 2010, Bromford Group is deploying the MIS-AMS ActiveH housing management system across all members of its group. Bromford Group, which owns 25,000 properties, employs more than 1000 staff and has been an MIS Active Management Systems customer for the past decade, is…
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No place like Home
With an annual turnover of more than £230 million, 52,000 homes and supporting over 18,000 people across the UK, Home Group is one of the UK’s largest housing providers. Housing Technology interviewed Keith Woolley, director of IT at Home Group and a relatively new arrival to social housing, to find out his view on the…
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Opti-Time at Charnwood Neighbourhood Housing
Charnwood Neighbourhood Housing has been using Xmbrace’s Opti-Time workforce scheduling system since May 2008, six months after having been set up as an ALMO for Charnwood Borough Council’s 6000 properties. CNH needed to improve appointment performance and customer care while cutting excessive fuel costs. Furthermore, the Audit Commission identified shortcomings with CNH’s IT services and…
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Xmbrace scheduled for success
Housing Technology talks to David Todd, CEO of Xmbrace, about workforce scheduling, how Xmbrace has grown since its inception in 2001 and technology trends in social housing. Xmbrace was established in 2001 as a specialist systems integrator selling the Opti-Time workforce scheduling system in the UK. Having found early success in social housing, the company…
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Editor’s Notes: At work or in work?
Most housing providers have embraced mobile technology for their field-based staff and contractors, such as job-scheduling systems, repairs reporting and inspections. However, fewer have extended mobile working to their general workforce; this is usually the result of a management culture that values ‘presenteeism’ over actual productivity. Yet the technology to support flexible, mobile working is…
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Tower Hamlets outsources IT to Sovereign
As part of a three-year managed services contract which began last year, Tower Hamlets Community Housing has outsourced its technology operations to Sovereign Business Integration. THCH was established in 2000 and now provides 2800 homes and employs 80 staff across four locations. However, by 2006 THCH had not upgraded its IT hardware or software infrastructure,…
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