Vivid Housing has teamed up with Housing Perks to provide an exclusive cost of living app for its tenants, funded through the housing provider’s Vivid Plus charitable arm. 1,100 Vivid tenants signed up to the Housing Perks app on the first day and saved thousands of pounds within the first few weeks. Housing Perks is…
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Interview – Vivid changes with Teams Direct Routing… and headsets
Gamma’s public sector director, Sam Winterbottom, interviewed Rob Poyser, Vivid Homes’ infrastructure operations manager about the housing provider’s use of Microsoft Teams Direct Routing. In the January 2021 issue of Housing Technology, we looked at how Microsoft Teams has provided an easy route by which housing providers can adopt unified communications as a service. We…
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Vivid’s insights with Hitachi Solutions & Power BI
Vivid Housing has recently enlisted the help of Hitachi Solutions, Microsoft and Richmond Systems to create a proof-of-concept of a real-time, business analytics dashboard. As a precursor to the project, Vivid realised that it wasn’t getting maximum value from its data and identified a service-desk system to use as a test bed for Microsoft Power…
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Vivid trials new app to support vulnerable tenants
Vivid Housing is the first housing provider to pilot an app from TellJo that will provide early intervention to support its tenants and prevent them from getting into crisis situations. The TellJo app enables vulnerable tenants to assess their own support needs after completing a self-assessment and signpost them direct to relevant agencies to access…
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Vivid’s new CDW hosted infrastructure
CDW has completed the implementation of a completely new IT infrastructure, storage and DR platform for newly-created Vivid Housing. The formation of Vivid involved bringing together two Hampshire-based housing providers, First Wessex Housing and Sentinel Housing, each with similar aims but different systems and processes. First Wessex and Sentinel both had IT infrastructures that were…
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