Following an Audit Commission inspection which highlighted the need for Gateshead Housing Company to review its web site, the housing provider launched a new ‘customer-centric’ site based on Jadu’s content management platform. Following the tender process for the development of the new site, web content management system provider Jadu was selected as the development partner….
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Pressure grows for public-sector IT managers
Public-sector IT managers are under twice as much pressure to reduce operational costs as their private-sector counterparts, according to research by Centralis. One in two IT departments said that they had been asked by senior management to help to reduce their organisation’s operating costs, compared with fewer than a quarter in the private sector. Increasing…
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Future of IT in UK social housing
Social housing is always changing and adapting to meet the needs of a growing population, not to mention adhering to standards issued by the government. But no matter how fast social housing changes, technology invariably changes faster. New technology and software is often exciting, groundbreaking and can promise a new era of productivity and efficiency….
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Seamless integration – the death of the RSL super system
One of the key factors in procuring a new computer system is how well it will integrate with existing systems and report across different databases, while also avoiding any duplication of data input and storage. This led to the idea of the RSL ‘Super System’. The Super System can be thought of as being a…
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Review of Capita’s 2009 housing conference
Capita Software Services held its first housing conference in July, with the focus on digital inclusion and how the right technology can improve tenant services and reduce costs for housing providers. The keynote speaker Professor Germaine Greer suggested that to rebuild communities and support productive, cohesive societies, the placement and structure of homes should be…
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Homes for Haringey and West Mercia sign with Sungard
Homes for Haringey and West Mercia Housing Group are both in the middle of implementing new performance management systems from Sungard Public Sector. Both organisations are deploying Sungard’s Aspireview system, with Homes for Haringey expected to be live in October 2009 and West Mercia one month later. Homes for Haringey, which looks after 21,000 homes…
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