Circle has completed the migration of its network infrastructure to a hosted service at Claranet’s datacentre, with 12 offices and over 200 Circle sites now connected by an MPLS network. With the project starting in 2010 and having taken around 18 months to complete, the new Claranet hosted infrastructure is expected to save Circle around…
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023 - September 2011
Cloud computing & software as a service
Early in the 20th century, manufacturers began to rely on electricity as a means of powering their machinery. They therefore needed to build and maintain power plants filled with complex machinery. The need to run 24 hours a day meant expensive three-shift rotas for staff and complex maintenance routines to minimise downtime and disruption. Whenever…
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Component accounting partnership from PIMSS & RAM
Real Asset Management and PIMSS Data Systems have joined forces to deliver a SORP-compliant and component-level asset and maintenance management system. RAM and PIMSS hope that their partnership will bridge the different needs of finance departments and asset management teams when dealing with SORP compliance. The deadline for SORP compliance is April 2012, by which…
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RAM signs new customers for SORP & component accounting
Real Asset Management has announced that Cardiff Community Housing, South Yorkshire Housing Association and Worthing Homes are set to use its Asset4000 system to support component accounting and for compliance with the Statement of Recommended Practice (SORP) which takes effect from April 2012. Under the new SORP guidelines, housing providers will have to divide their…
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Southern Housing gets Orchard e-procurement
Orchard Information Systems has completed the installation of an e-procurement system at Southern Housing Group. In addition to supplying the necessary software tools, Orchard was closely involved in educating SHG’s staff on the benefits of e-procurement and ensuring the new system was widely and correctly adopted by the relevant users. As part of the pre-implementation…
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Orchard’s ‘housing headache’ results
Further to our story on Orchard Information Systems’ ‘finance headache’ survey (see May 2011 issue), the company also polled delegates at the CIH 2011 housing conference on their biggest ‘housing headaches’. A live SMS-based survey found that delivering value for money remains the current hot topic, with 35 per cent of respondents citing it as…
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