Family Mosaic has signed a new agreement with Telstra to deliver IT service efficiencies across its organisation. As part of the agreement, Telstra is providing high-speed MPLS (multi-protocol label switching) network connectivity and secure hosting facilities for the Family Mosaic server farms which serve seven major sites and more than 80 smaller Family Mosaic offices….
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Kypera ousts SunSystems from Magna
Magna Housing Group has replaced its SunSystems finance system with an integrated package of applications from Kypera. Magna said that its previous SunSystems package could not keep up with the growing complexity of its business requirements, while the running costs of the package were increasing. The requirements for the new finance system included a Windows-based…
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IFRS – best practice or bust
The public sector is facing up to IFRS (international financial reporting standards) and seizing the opportunity to use the asset register to maximise business benefits. It’s true that the new IFRS reporting complexity, combined with an extraordinary increase in asset numbers, does present a series of challenges to financial departments. But in time, the new…
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Tristar Homes on the case with Lagan
As part of a shared services agreement with Stockton Borough Council, Tristar Homes is expecting to go live in July 2009 with an enterprise case management (ECM) system from Lagan. Based in Stockton-on-Tees and responsible for managing 10,000 of the council’s properties, Tristar receives hundreds of enquiries from tenants each day. Once the ECM system…
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Choice-based letting and telephony
Choice-based letting (CBL) is an updated version of the old points-based system for the management and allocation of social housing, and it invites greater participation from people eligible for social housing. This in turn means that local authorities and housing associations need to manage their housing stock more efficiently and also add more properties to…
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Mobile apps from Bluepod
Bluepod Media Worldwide has launched a Bluetooth-based mobile service for housing providers to communicate with tenants. The mobile customer communications system (MCCS) enhances tenant communications by delivering content-rich applications direct to tenants’ Bluetooth-enabled mobile phones, free of charge to both the tenant and the service supplier. The system works by installing Bluetooth transmitters around the…
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