Peabody Trust is completing the implementation of a new procurement and financial management system from Touchstone. The long-term project, which began in 2008, has involved the integration of Touchstone’s Proactis procurement software with Peabody’s existing SunSystems financial system. Touchstone reported that the contract value was in the region of £70,000. In common with many housing…
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023 - September 2011
Sovereign launches datacentre service
With the launch of its new Data CentrePlus service, Sovereign Business Integration is expanding its services to provide co-location, hosting, managed IT and outsourced IT services. The new ‘Metro Point’ data centre is 14 miles north of central London and within the M25. Richard Barker, CEO, Sovereign Business Integration, said, “We have been offering data-centre…
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Auditing your IT suppliers
When was the last time you audited your IT providers and their supply chains? For most housing providers, they haven’t done so since the original tendering process or during the award of the contract. Increasingly, procurement processes cover whether the prospective supplier has a business continuity plan, and whether it has been used or at…
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CarelineUK’s £125k telecare deal with Trust Housing
Trust Housing has agreed a four-year contract with CarelineUK for telecare services to 1,700 users in 23 local authority areas across Scotland. The contract will run until April 2015 and is worth around £125,000. The contract covers out-of-hours and alarm monitoring for Trust’s residents, and extends CarelineUK’s presence in Scotland where it is already supporting…
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Luton maps success with GGP
Luton Borough Council is now using a geographic information system from GGP Systems across its complete range of services, including housing, roads and front-line services. The council’s GGP system contains almost 200 individual layers of mapped information which can be accessed by more than 3,000 staff via the council’s intranet. Members of the public can…
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GeoSolveIT & In4Systems’ asset & mapping partnership
Mapping software provider GeoSolveIT and asset management specialist In4Systems have formed a joint technology partnership. In4System’s Promaster software will now have direct integration with GeoSolveIT’s GeoSamba for Housing, giving customers access to a web-based geographic information system for the visualisation, analysis and reporting of asset management data. Nigel Robbins, managing director, GeoSolveIT, said, “The integration…
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