As part of a five-year IT strategy, Home Group has implemented a service-oriented architecture (SoA) across its operations. Developed by Waterstons, the focus for Home’s SoA was content consolidation and management against a background of continuous business change and regulatory oversight. One of the UK’s largest housing providers with 52,000 properties and 4000 employees, Home…
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012 - November 2009
Out with the old, in with the new
Neil Jones, head of IS at Newport City Homes, explains how the transfer of Newport City Council’s properties to NCH has required a completely new enterprise-wide technology and telephony infrastructure. Newport City Homes, one of the largest social landlords in Wales, was established in March 2009 after a stock transfer of around 9100 properties from…
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NTL voice & data network at Glasgow Housing
Glasgow Housing Association, the UK’s largest social housing provider, has installed a new voice and data network from NTL:Telewest Business to improve services for its 90,000 tenants and homeowners across the city. Since the fibre-optic network went live in August 2009, GHA customers now have a single number to call for all queries, ranging from…
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Waterloo Housing’s new Infor FMS
Waterloo Housing Group has implemented a new financial management system from Infor following the merger of Eastern Shires Housing Group and Waterloo Housing, increasing the new group’s portfolio to 17,000 properties. Having consolidated its accounting structure onto a single system following the merger, a quarter of WHG’s 400 employees will now use Infor’s SunSystems finance…
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Kypera Housing live at Lothian Homes
Lothian Homes has recently gone live with Kypera Housing’s Factoring module and has just completed its first quarterly invoice run to its factored clients. Kypera provided a single central database to manage the property and occupancy details of Lothian Homes’ 800 factored units. The Kypera system uses data from Lothian Homes’ existing repairs and financial…
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Orchard windfall at Open Accounts awards
Orchard Information Systems has won three awards at the Cedar Open Accounts (COA) annual business partner event, including the top award for delivering the most business within COA’s business partner community during the 2008-2009 financial year. Orchard’s finance business development manager, Mike Biddleston, took the award for COA’s best performing business partner salesperson, having secured…
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