Merlin Housing Society in South Gloucestershire has moved from PCs to Sun Ray virtual PCs as part of a complete renewal of its IT infrastructure. South Gloucestershire Council transferred nearly 8000 homes to Merlin in February 2007 and initially provided Merlin with ICT services using traditional PCs, file/print servers and old-fashioned Centrex telephony. Anyone who…
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006 - November 2008
Editor’s Notes: Threat or opportunity?
What does the present economic situation mean to your organisation? Based on the experiences of the past two recessions, companies tend to adopt one of two strategies. The first strategy is to ‘batten down the hatches’, reduce operational costs, postpone capital projects, scale back recruitment and so on, and try to weather the economic storm,…
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Editor’s Notes: Measuring your performance
As the saying goes, ‘it ain’t what you do, but the way that you do it’. This is particularly pertinent to Decent Homes projects and Audit Commission inspections. We are confident that programme and performance management software and systems will enjoy a period of substantial growth over the next 6-12 months as housing associations and…
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Editor’s Notes: Spreadsheets – just say no
The most common obstacle to housing associations and RSLs achieving efficient in-house processes and delivering joined-up services to their tenants and residents is the plethora of different systems used across the various parts of their organisations. Many of the projects we cover in Housing Technology are being carried out to either address this problem directly…
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Anite Public Sector bought by Northgate
Northgate Information Solutions has just completed its £54.3 million purchase of Anite Public Sector Holdings, after the OFT decided not to refer the deal to the Competition Commission. David Meaden, chief executive, Northgate Public Services, said, “The deal will bring real benefits to our clients, our employees and to our company as a whole. We…
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Vale of Aylesbury gets off stock-free
In partnership with 1st Touch and Buildbase, Vale of Aylesbury Housing Trust has got rid of its in-house warehouse and moved to only carrying imprest stock on its vans, significantly reducing its running costs. Buildbase, the builders’ merchants, is providing the necessary stock and 1st Touch is supplying the mobile workforce solution to support the…
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