Adam Continuity has launched Wales’s first disaster recovery operations centre shortly after extending its three-year contract with Wales and West Housing Association. With 9000 properties under management, 25,000 residents to support and 300 staff, WWHA has made a long-term commitment to its business continuity and disaster recovery strategy. Cardiff-based WWHA’s previous supplier had offered fixed…
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1st Touch launches Mobile Workforce
1st Touch has launched Mobile Workforce as a complete solution for managing a mobile workforce within housing, property services and local government. Its existing customers include Coast & Country, Powys County Council and the Vale of Aylesbury Housing Trust. 1st Touch Mobile Workforce manages, supports and controls mobile operatives across all aspects of housing management…
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Accent selects £170,000 HR saving
Accent Group is saving £170,000 per year by automating routine HR tasks with a new web-based system from Select Software. Accent Group, which provides homes for 50,000 people across the UK and employs 700 people, has re-engineered its HR services. The housing provider, which is Select Software’s first customer for its Select HR Web Edition,…
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View from the top
Welcome to the first of a series of interviews with IT directors at the UK’s largest or most innovative housing organisations. We are starting the series with an exclusive interview with Yvonne Gallagher, the recently-appointed IMS director at Affinity Sutton which manages 53,000 homes from Plymouth in the South West to Newcastle upon Tyne in…
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Housing gains from InTechnology’s 21CN deal
InTechnology has signed a five-year agreement which will see BT provide InTechnology with high-bandwidth voice and data services delivered over 21CN, BT’s next-generation Ethernet programme. The deal is particularly relevant to the housing sector due to many organisations operating across multiple sites; 21CN brings the benefits of high bandwidth Ethernet networks to enable housing organisations…
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10 years of thin-client computing.
Housing Technology asked Gary Haldane, the IT manager at Kingdom Housing Association, to share his experience of thin-client computing over the past 10 years. Kingdom Housing Association first implemented thin-client technology in 1999, using Citrix Presentation server and we have continued to use the same technology for a decade. We have 180 users, 100 of…
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