Southwark Council, London’s largest social landlord, is just about to start the implementation of Asset4000 to support component accounting for its £3.4 billion assets. Dennis Callaghan, chief accountant, Southwark Council, said, “The complexity of having to adopt IFRS accounting processes means that we need a tool to let us manage our assets at a more…
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Broadacres manages £160m assets with RAM
Yorkshire-based Broadacres Housing Association has chosen Asset4000 from Real Asset Management to manage its £160 million housing assets in line with the Statement of Recommended Practice (SORP) for component accounting. Richard Armitage, financial performance manager, Broadacres Housing Association, said, “At the moment we have a housing management system, but we knew that we would inevitably…
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Raven’s £100,000 asset management deal with Keystone
Raven Housing Trust has chosen Keystone to supply a complete software suite covering asset management and technical services in a deal worth around £100,000. The project began in February 2011 and is expected to be live this August. The main Keystone asset management module covers stock condition assessments, performance measurement against KPIs such as the…
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Methodist Ministers subscribe to HousingPoint web-based HMS
Methodist Ministers Housing Society has moved to cloud-based computing for its housing, document and asset management systems with support for mobile working, following systems migration and integration by IEG4 and the adoption of HousingPoint from HousingIT. With a view to improving productivity and cutting costs, IEG4 migrated the housing provider from an old on-site version…
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Kypera – first .NET housing management system
With the recent release of Kypera Housing 2.5, Kypera said that it is the first comprehensive housing management system to use the latest Microsoft.NET technology throughout, and expects the new system to move the company from a niche to mainstream player in the UK housing sector. New Gorbals Housing Association is already using the new…
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Editor’s Notes: Head in the clouds
While cloud computing has been around for some time (anyone remember the plethora of application service providers at the end of the last millenium?), it has taken some time to become mainstream, partly because of a lack of widespread internet connectivity and partly to do with concerns about security, service levels and, to a lesser…
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