Ordnance Survey data, including OS MasterMap products, is now free at the point of use for thousands of public-sector organisations in England and Wales, and no longer subject to limits on re-use when used internally within the public sector for public-sector activities. Under the new Public Sector Mapping Agreement, at least 750 public-sector users of…
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Capita buys Tribal’s housing division
Tribal Group has sold its health and government consulting businesses, which include its housing division, to Capita Group for just under £16 million. In the consolidated accounts for Tribal to the end of 2010, the health and government businesses had combined gross assets of almost £72 million and combined operating losses of £2.7 million. Following…
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£400,000 Tunstall telecare at Saxon Weald
Saxon Weald has spent around £400,000 on a new telecare system from Tunstall Healthcare at its Downlands Court ‘extra care’ retirement housing in West Sussex. Tunstall’s Communicall Connect system now allows staff to communicate with residents around the clock through speech modules installed in both individual flats and communal areas. A range of sensors increase…
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Managing communication costs
Nick Hoareau from Siemens takes a look at an increasingly complex ICT environment and considers the business value of a move to managed services within the housing sector. On March 25 2011, the Chancellor’s second Budget outlined his ‘jobs and growth’ vision for economic recovery. Promising radical reforms to the planning system and powerful financial…
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Best practice IT at Accord
Accord Group’s seven-strong IT team has recently achieved ISO/IEC 20000 certification, the international standard for IT service management. Using House on the Hill’s service-desk system as the underlying platform and with help from a specialist ITSM consultant at Public IT, Accord implemented new processes for problem, change and configuration management before going on to develop…
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Get a grip on your costs
How unified communications can give you vital budget predictability “A lot of people in housing technology are looking closely at their finances at the moment” – that was the opinion expressed by industry expert Stewart Buchanan from Gartner at Housing Technology’s 2010 conference*. And throughout Housing Technology’s 2011 conference what became clear was that although…
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