You may have been sceptical about investing in a business transformation project prior to the coronavirus outbreak, with the perception that they are expensive, long and need substantial resources to deliver. You may also feel that the benefits of digital transformation don’t materialise fast enough. However, given the huge transition all organisations have had to…
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Grand Union Housing
Grand Union’s £1m Castleton infrastructure deal
Castleton Technology has embarked on four-year managed service project at Grand Union Housing Group. The project is valued at around £1 million, with the initial cloud and unified communications implementation expected to be completed by August 2019. Castleton’s multi-cloud approach for the housing provider includes an ‘edge’ systems refresh, private-cloud hosting in Castleton’s ‘tier four’…
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Grand Union Housing’s e-welfare system from Appello
Grand Union Housing has chosen Appello to provide its first digital living solution for some of its extra care residents in Bedfordshire. Residents will benefit from apartment-to-apartment video calls, video door-entry system, upgraded smoke detectors and pendants for each resident to wear in case of emergency. Buttons have been replaced with touch pads, making them…
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Grand Union’s Active Housing portal
Grand Union Housing has completed the development and launch of its Active Housing-based tenant portal. The new portal replaces three previous separate sites from before the merger of Aragon Housing, Rockingham Forest Housing and South Northants Homes. Grand Union Housing uses Capita’s Open Housing as its main back-office system so Active Housing used its experience…
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Grand Union on track with Kirona
Since moving to the latest version of Kirona’s Dynamic Resource Scheduler (DRS v5), Grand Union Housing Group has increased its scheduled jobs by 46 per cent. Having used an earlier version of DRS since 2014 for its maintenance and repairs teams, Grand Union invited Kirona to review its use of the software following its upgrade…
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Capita mobilises Grand Union Housing
Grand Union Housing Group has recently deployed Capita’s enterprise mobile platform for housing. The choice of Capita TotalMobile is an extension of the housing provider’s existing use of Capita’s OpenHousing and OpenContractor software. Grand Union Housing said that the implementation of TotalMobile would mean that it could expand its predominantly repairs-based mobile capabilities across a…
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