A group of housing professionals with an interest in all things GIS-related have created a community to offer support and share ideas and best practice. GI4Housing aims to bring together the individuals in housing who are doing excellent things with GIS through a series of bi-annual meetings. The group is aimed at people who currently…
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Plus Dane Group
Plus Dane offers Looking Local apps
Looking Local has completed the development of two new apps supporting health and financial wellbeing for Plus Dane tenants, encompassing both Plus Dane’s various housing services as well as complementary services from external government agencies. In addition to services such as repairs reporting, paying rent and requesting appointments, Plus Dane’s new digital solution provides support…
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Cadcorp mapping central to Plus Dane success
Plus Dane has put spatial analytics at the heart of its operations following its widespread adoption of GIS and mapping tools from Cadcorp. Plus Dane Group was formed in June 2008 when Dane Housing and Plus Housing merged; the group now has over 15,000 homes in ownership and management across Merseyside and Cheshire. The coming…
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Plus Dane’s £195k mobile contract with Kirona
Kirona has won a £195,000 contract with Plus Dane Group for a mobile workforce, dynamic scheduling and workflow solution. The first phase of the project involves 130 of Plus Dane’s 570 field-based workers using the Kirona application on their mobile devices for responsive repairs, planned maintenance and gas servicing. The second phase will cover the…
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Future perspectives on asset management systems
Housing Technology interviewed a number of housing providers and IT suppliers on the use of asset management systems (AMS), the business and IT issues surrounding their implementation, purchasing criteria, and their integration with other existing ‘core’ business applications. By way of introduction, the National Housing Federation’s recently-published book, ‘Managing the assets – A guide for…
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Plus Dane maps future with Cadcorp
Plus Dane Group is using Cadcorp SIS to deliver a desktop- and web-based GIS system via its intranet, with the aim of improving productivity through data sharing and organisation-wide access to the most up-to-date information. With 15,000 properties under its management and more than 400 staff, Plus Dane Group was formed in 2008 from the…
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