Accent Group is saving £170,000 per year by automating routine HR tasks with a new web-based system from Select Software. Accent Group, which provides homes for 50,000 people across the UK and employs 700 people, has re-engineered its HR services. The housing provider, which is Select Software’s first customer for its Select HR Web Edition,…
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008 - March 2009
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Welcome to the first of a series of interviews with IT directors at the UK’s largest or most innovative housing organisations. We are starting the series with an exclusive interview with Yvonne Gallagher, the recently-appointed IMS director at Affinity Sutton which manages 53,000 homes from Plymouth in the South West to Newcastle upon Tyne in…
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Housing gains from InTechnology’s 21CN deal
InTechnology has signed a five-year agreement which will see BT provide InTechnology with high-bandwidth voice and data services delivered over 21CN, BT’s next-generation Ethernet programme. The deal is particularly relevant to the housing sector due to many organisations operating across multiple sites; 21CN brings the benefits of high bandwidth Ethernet networks to enable housing organisations…
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10 years of thin-client computing.
Housing Technology asked Gary Haldane, the IT manager at Kingdom Housing Association, to share his experience of thin-client computing over the past 10 years. Kingdom Housing Association first implemented thin-client technology in 1999, using Citrix Presentation server and we have continued to use the same technology for a decade. We have 180 users, 100 of…
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High-speed network for 150 Midland Heart sites
Midland Heart is overhauling its information network across 150 sites in the West Midlands following a deal with NTL Telewest Business. The new NTL network is already live at Midland Heart’s headquarters and three satellite offices, with the remaining four offices and housing sites expected to be live by July 2009. The housing and regeneration…
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Clearview scores its half-century
Bromford Group and Trust Housing Association recently signed up for Clearview’s planning and performance management system, taking the number of its RSL customers to 50. Clearview was selected by Bromford as part of its plan of becoming a three-star, excellent-rated organisation, with the Clearview Best Practice framework providing a structure to its improvement plans. Trust…
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