For years the IT department fought for the chance to demonstrate the business value of technology innovation. Yet after a flurry of CIO appointments in the late 1990s, housing associations appear to have largely changed their view about technology as a business enabler and could therefore be in danger of considering it as little more…
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Is your PC really necessary?
Centralised applications and thin desktops are helping many housing associations deliver IT services that are lower coat, more secure and easier to manage. But even within these organisations, there are always users who claim to need a full-fat ‘real PC’. But do they? Thin computing may have been around for 10 years, but it is…
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Weaver Vale opts for Citrix thin clients
Weaver Vale Housing Trust, one of Cheshire’s largest social landlords, has implemented thin-client services from Citrix to its 350 staff spread across the region. The thin-client strategy is intended to make it easier and faster for Weaver Vale’s IT team to deliver software and the associated updates, while increasing the working life of older PCs….
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BCHG takes Frontier system
Black Country Housing Group is updating its payroll and human resources systems to integrate them into a single system from Frontier Software. Based around Sandwell, Dudley, Wolverhampton and Birmingham, BCHG needed a system that could accommodate the varied payroll requirements across its staff, such as conditions of service, pay frequencies and annual adjustments, and also…
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ICT award for United House
United House has been commended for its Flag process management system in the recent Quality in Construction awards. The Flag systems, developed for United House by Propeller, is designed to integrate all of the different processes that are involved in refurbishment projects, enabling United House to manage a £200 million Decent Homes order book, including…
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Saffron Housing Trust adopts GIS
After taking over 4200 properties from South Norfolk Council, Saffron Housing Trust is using a geographic information system as part of its plan to create a coherent development strategy. Before the introduction of the DataMAP GIS system from SIA, Saffron relied on a paper-based land terrier, which was difficult to maintain, could only be accessed…
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