Housing Technology interviewed Civica’s managing director for housing and asset management, Jeff Hewitt, and Orchard’s marketing officer, Craig Tither, about recent changes to housing providers’ financial management systems, ERP systems vs. dedicated housing applications, and the move towards web- and app-based systems. How do today’s financial management systems (FMS) differ to those from five years’…
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Northgate helps reduce arrears at Aberdeen City Council
Aberdeen City Council is using software from Northgate Public Services to enable earlier interventions regarding rent arrears. The council has implemented Northgate’s Payment Arrangements and Task Manager modules. Aberdeen City Council wanted to improve how it collected rent from its 22,000 properties by engaging with tenants before rent arrears became a problem and by offering…
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Mplsystems secures Innovate UK funding for IoT mobile solution
Mplsystems has just won its second funding award from the UK’s innovation agency, Innovate UK. The ‘Advanced Engineer Scheduling Optimisation & Prediction’ (AESOP) project will prototype a new application to enable real-time optimisation of field service technicians using the internet of things (IoT) and other external feeds. The AESOP project will combine real-time data feeds…
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EkkoSense wins renewables software deal at Nottingham City Homes
EkkoSense, an energy management specialist, has won a contract from Nottingham City Council, on behalf of Nottingham City Homes, to supply monitoring software for over 3,000 solar installations. EkkoSense’s web-based monitoring system will check each solar installation daily, providing all of the information needed to claim any income generated by the solar panels along with…
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Wheatley Group & Derwent Living sign with Housing Contact
The Wheatley Group and Derwent Living have both signed up to use Housing Contact’s Call2Collect software to tackle their rent arrears. The two housing providers are using Call2Collect to contact multiple tenants simultaneously using call automation. When a tenant picks up the call, they then have the option of pressing a number to be connected…
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Lanarkshire Housing moves digital tenants with MIS-AMS
Lanarkshire Housing Association has just implemented automated text, CRM and mobile solutions from MIS-AMS, alongside its existing use of the software provider’s ActiveH housing management system. The new solutions will improve communications with tenants as well as providing housing and maintenance officers with a mobile solution to gain access to important information while working in…
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