After taking over 4200 properties from South Norfolk Council, Saffron Housing Trust is using a geographic information system as part of its plan to create a coherent development strategy. Before the introduction of the DataMAP GIS system from SIA, Saffron relied on a paper-based land terrier, which was difficult to maintain, could only be accessed…
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Bromford Group active with MIS
Having been an MIS customer for the past 12 years, Bromford Group is now standardising its technology infrastructure around the MIS ActiveH suite of products to support its management of more than 25,000 properties across central England. Steve Percival, group director of ICT, Bromford Group, said, “We have grown substantially over the last decade and…
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On the road in Lewisham
London Borough of Lewisham is saving at least £60,000 per year following the introduction of mobile devices and job scheduling software to its workers. Lewisham employs 200 workers such as plumbers, carpenters and electricians, who deliver planned maintenance and repairs for 30,000 homes across the region. But each day, these workers had to visit the…
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£750,000 Ian Williams deal for MET
Property services specialist Ian Williams has signed a three-year, online services contract with Managed Enterprise Technologies for £750,000. Ian Williams, which looks after the maintenance and servicing of buildings for housing associations and councils, relies on its IT infrastructure for everything from logging calls and booking repairs, to scheduling planned works and communicating with operatives…
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Editor’s Notes: How to spend it
When making purchases for both technology- and business-change projects, it is worth considering the economist Milton Friedman’s statement on the different ways of spending money and their relative efficiencies. There are only four ways of spending money. The first and most efficient is to spend your own money on yourself – it’s your own money…
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Editor’s Notes: Technology for smaller organisations
Given the consolidation in the market, why are there not more ‘HMS-lite’ applications available? Based on stock under management, the pyramid shape of the market (with many small HAs and relatively few large ones) suggests that there is a market for reduced-functionality, remotely-hosted applications to cover housing management, mapping and GIS, mobility, job scheduling and…
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