IBS OpenSystems has signed contracts with United Welsh Housing Association for CRM and with Cheltenham Borough Homes to streamline maintenance, repairs and reporting. United Welsh is taking IBS’s OpenHousing, OpenFinancials and OpenMobile products to improve the document management and workflow processes involved in the management of its 3600 properties in Wales. The system went live…
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004 - July 2008
Decent Homes in Cambridge
Cambridge City Council is on target to achieve the Decent Homes standard following its implementation of Anite’s Codeman asset management software, with all of the council’s 7600 social housing properties expected to meet the Government’s minimum requirements by 2010. Cambridge City Council is upgrading to the latest version of Codeman which offers a improved mobile…
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New kid on the block
Housing Technology interviewed Paul Tomlinson, managing director of HousingIT, the newly-launched housing system provider. What is rationale behind the creation of HousingIT? Having been involved in housing management systems since 1992, I’ve seen the market demands change from basic ‘raising the rent debit’ to integrated community facilities, such as ASB case monitoring and tracking housing…
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Editor’s Notes: Software as a service
After we wrote about the idea of ‘HMS-lite’ in the last edition, we are pleased to have an interview with HousingIT* which has just launched a subscription-based housing management system. While larger housing associations will continue to demand the ‘bells and whistles’ functionality available on larger systems from the established vendors, HousingIT is focussing on…
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Editor’s Notes: Straight-through processing
No one can have missed the importance of the ubiquity of mobile services for front-line repairs and maintenance staff, and their integration with back-office systems. But as a spokesman for Xmbrace said in the previous edition of Housing Technology, “Over the past year, mobile working has become the norm.” So what’s next? For many mid-…
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Capita to acquire IBS OpenSystems
IBS OpenSystems is to be acquired by Capita. At the time of writing, Capita’s offer had been declared ‘unconditional’, effectively signalling that the deal will take place. Capita’s offer of 187.85 pence for each IBS share is a premium of some 65 per cent on IBS’s average share price for the three months to 24…
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