Civica’s executive director for housing and asset management, Jeff Hewitt, looks at future housing trends and discusses the evolution of Civica’s housing portfolio for tenants. What are your views on the future of digital in social housing today? Have you seen any particular trends? Advances in technology and automation, the proliferation of devices and communications…
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“Alexa, how are our tenants?”
I’ve recently bought a new toy. Amazon’s Echo Dot is a voice interface that enables me to ask my Alexa digital assistant questions about the weather, Wikipedia and the ongoing misfortunes of my football team. You may have seen Alexa at the Housing Technology 2017 conference in March during Capita’s inspiring presentation. Alexa comes with…
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Home Group and Newlon choose Integrator and Notus
Home Group has chosen Integrator Housing Solutions’ asset management software for its 6,000 leasehold properties alongside the software provider’s Notus Pocket Surveyor software to be used by its contractors. Philip Wragg, project manager, Home Group, said, “We’ve used this system for many years with some of our properties and now that we’re embarking on a…
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Halfway to Amazon!
Along with my colleague Andrew Kidds, who manages our fabulous contact centre, I presented the story of Accent’s ICT journey at Housing Technology’s conference in March 2017. ‘Halfway to Amazon’ was a phrase coined by our critical friend, Frances Hipple from HACT, who had led a digital maturity review for us late last year which…
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SDS launches new asset management consultancy
Shelton Development Services has just launched a new asset consultancy to help the housing sector. Born out of SDS, one of the UK’s leading suppliers of project appraisal, control and profiling software, SDS Asset Consultancy reported that it will be using ‘active asset management’ to deliver the necessary business intelligence to understand its customers’ current…
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1st Touch unveils V6 digital & mobile platform
1st Touch is due to release its new V6 digital and mobile platform during the fourth quarter of 2017 following a multimillion-pound investment in its development by parent company Aareon. The company said that the new system will deliver a complete digital transformation and mobile workforce ecosystem for the housing sector. With full SaaS functionality,…
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