Guinness Partnership is integrating five technology infrastructures onto a common platform with support from ANS Group. Guinness Partnership, which manages over 55,000 properties, comprises the Guinness Trust, Guinness Northern Counties, Guinness Hermitage, Guinness Midsummer and Gloucestershire Housing Association. As each housing organisation had previously operated independently, they each had their own infrastructure, such as email…
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010 - July 2009
Federation data safe as houses with FutureSoft
The National Housing Federation has implemented FutureSoft’s PointGuard software to control staff access to applications, devices and data. The Federation, which has 150 staff in offices across England and represents 1200 housing organisations, needed to update its data security and handling capabilities to deal with the threat posed by staff downloading non-business files or unwittingly…
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Family Mosaic outsources network & servers to Telstra
Family Mosaic has signed a new agreement with Telstra to deliver IT service efficiencies across its organisation. As part of the agreement, Telstra is providing high-speed MPLS (multi-protocol label switching) network connectivity and secure hosting facilities for the Family Mosaic server farms which serve seven major sites and more than 80 smaller Family Mosaic offices….
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Kypera ousts SunSystems from Magna
Magna Housing Group has replaced its SunSystems finance system with an integrated package of applications from Kypera. Magna said that its previous SunSystems package could not keep up with the growing complexity of its business requirements, while the running costs of the package were increasing. The requirements for the new finance system included a Windows-based…
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IFRS – best practice or bust
The public sector is facing up to IFRS (international financial reporting standards) and seizing the opportunity to use the asset register to maximise business benefits. It’s true that the new IFRS reporting complexity, combined with an extraordinary increase in asset numbers, does present a series of challenges to financial departments. But in time, the new…
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Tristar Homes on the case with Lagan
As part of a shared services agreement with Stockton Borough Council, Tristar Homes is expecting to go live in July 2009 with an enterprise case management (ECM) system from Lagan. Based in Stockton-on-Tees and responsible for managing 10,000 of the council’s properties, Tristar receives hundreds of enquiries from tenants each day. Once the ECM system…
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