Increasing external pressures on the housing sector, including TSMs, a greater focus on compliance and a drive towards personalised services, often lead to new technology and data initiatives. Platform Housing’s director of EPMO Tamara Fyffe and head of data, analytics and AI Richard Hawkes discuss their conflicting and complementary opinions on whether you should build…
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Platform Housing and International Women’s Day 2024
As part of International Women’s Day at the beginning of March, Housing Technology caught up with Hannah Lock, a project manager at Platform Housing Group, to discuss her career as an IT consultant and find out why she’s involved in social housing. Lots of people who work in social housing do so because they want…
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Platform Housing – Automating UC verifications with RPA
During 2023, we had an opportunity to remove a large portion of manual processing and keying from our universal credit (UC) application process. In order to streamline our claim response process, we built a solution using Microsoft Power Automate RPA to imitate the behaviours of our users. The resulting benefits included improved application response rates,…
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Platform Housing’s move to Azure with Simpson Associates
Platform Housing has selected Simpson Associates to design and deliver its new Microsoft Azure data platform. Simpson Associates will be working with Platform Housing to deliver an Azure data platform and Power BI project, with the aim of consolidating data from multiple housing management systems and ensuring uninterrupted access to reporting and analytics for its…
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Plentific takes on new customers & 157,000 properties…
Plentific has signed seven new housing customers for its real-time software – Change Housing, Hyde Group, Longhurst Group, Midland Heart, Platform Housing, Phoenix Community Housing and SW9. Hyde Group approached Plentific to in order to achieve year-round utilisation of its internal workforce alongside ad-hoc demand for specialist external contractors through the Plentific marketplace. Plentific is…
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Platform Housing finds a home with MHR’s iTrent
Platform Housing has chosen MHR’s iTrent software to revamp its HR operations, including reducing the time spent on routine daily tasks, more streamlined payroll processing and better internal reporting. Alongside MHR’s core iTrent software, the housing provider chose additional MHR modules for learning and development, check-ins, advanced analytics, self-service and onboarding. The iTrent solution is…
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