Previously with Southern Housing Group, Peter Knight has joined Sovereign Business Integration as a senior consultant in the company’s housing and public sector team. Knight has almost 20 years’ experience in the social housing sector, including developing workflows for Orchard’s arcHouse Plus system and managing Prince2- and ITIL-based projects. At Sovereign, Knight will be responsible…
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005 - September 2008
Burnside kicks off vandal-proof phone
Burnside Telecom has launched a vandal- and weather-proof phone that can be used in any location with GSM network coverage. The Burnside GSM Tough Phone, which can mounted anywhere and powered by mains power, internal battery or solar panel, can be deployed immediately, without the delay and expense sometimes associated with landline phones. The phone…
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Technology for Decent Homes
In a little over 18 months’ time, the Decent Homes legislation comes into force, with 95 per cent of all social housing organisations expected to be fully compliant. Yet despite Government targets being outlined as early as 2000, there are fears that many housing associations and councils have done little to ensure that their housing…
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Flagship maps the future
Flagship Housing Group has recently signed with Pitney Bowes MapInfo for the delivery of a new asset management system and location intelligence software to create an effective land terrier and improve its tenant services. With the deployment of PlanWeb, a intranet-based GIS solution, together with MapInfo Professional, Flagship plans to establish a land terrier covering…
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Tighter partnership for IBS and Capita
Following its recent acquisition by Capita, IBS OpenSystems has already formed a partnership with Capita Total Document Solutions (CTDS) to provide a bureau-based document back-scanning service. IBS expects to offer an end-to-end document management service, based on its OpenWorkflow and document image processing products and CTDS’s experience and expertise of providing scanning services through its…
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Waste not, want not
Almost three quarters of public sector workers think that the organisation they work for is wasting energy, according to research from nPower. In a YouGov poll for nPower, 74 per cent of public sector employees questioned said they believed energy is being wasted in their workplace, a higher response than any other sector in the…
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