Affinity Sutton has reported the successful implementation of a new procure-to-pay (P2P) system from Capita IB Solutions as part of a group amalgamation project last year. The new system replaces an older OpenText-based system and, latterly, a manual paper-based system for purchase ordering. Affinity Sutton’s amalgamation project has been one of the biggest change projects…
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All change – Microsoft’s licensing terms for social housing
As many of you will already know, Microsoft announced several months ago that it was likely to make significant changes to the licensing terms available to housing associations and RSLs for its software. Just before going to press with this issue, Housing Technology interviewed a number of leading housing providers and a housing consultancy on…
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Civica & Affinity Sutton merge housing infrastructure
Affinity Sutton and Civica have completed an 18-month project to deliver a single technology infrastructure and common set of business applications following the merger of three of Affinity Sutton’s major housing associations, between them comprising 22 separate corporate entities. William Sutton, Downland and Broomleigh housing associations’ business operations and housing stock are now managed using…
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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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Integration paradise for Affinity Sutton
Affinity Sutton is in the process of bringing together over 150 interfaces between disparate applications using Datadialogs’ Eden system. Chris Battye, head of business systems, Affinity Sutton, said, “We have more than 150 application interfaces. They have been written by different people, over many years, on different operating systems, and in different languages or scripts,…
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Storage review at Affinity Sutton
With the help of Eurodata Systems, Affinity Sutton has carried out a comprehensive review of its server and storage requirements in order to consolidate its technology infrastructure following its formation in 2006 from the merger of Affinity Homes and William Sutton. Affinity Sutton, which manages 51,000 homes nationwide, engaged Eurodata to carry out a review…
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