Melin Homes plans to align the operations of its housing management, direct works and finance teams using an integrated platform from Capita Software Services. The five-year contract includes the provision of Capita’s OpenHousing, OpenContractor and OpenFinancials products. The combined Capita system will provide direct online access to the most recent tenancy information, feedback into Melin…
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Government Procurement Service adds Aareon & Civica
Aareon UK and Civica have both been awarded framework agreements by Government Procurement Services, formerly Buying Solutions, for the provision of IT services to public-sector companies, with both companies specifically covered to deliver solutions to UK housing providers. The benefits of the Government Procurement Service framework for public-sector companies and housing providers include a fast…
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Spectrum Housing saves £250k with MIS ActiveH
Spectrum Housing Group has completed the final migration of all its subsidiary RSLs onto a single instance of the MIS ActiveH housing management system. The project was completed in July 2011 and ActiveH now holds details on all of Spectrum’s 18,000 properties in a single Microsoft SQL Server database. The project began in September 2009…
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Editor’s Notes: Encouraging direct engagement
We recently had the opportunity to see a novel way for housing providers and IT suppliers to work together to improve tenant services and their immediate environment. George Grant, publisher of Housing Technology, was invited by Family Mosaic to one of its properties in south London that was getting a ‘face lift’ courtesy of 80…
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Editor’s Notes: Housing fundamentals
Despite wider economic gloom, our informal and naturally rather subjective view is that the housing sector, and in particular its technology infrastructure, is pretty buoyant. One reason for this is that there is always demand for housing, with this obviously increasing when the economy declines. At risk of going a little ‘off piste’, a good…
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