Housing Technology interviewed Michael Barber, IT director at Peabody, to find out how he has found his first year in the housing sector, running the IT services of one of the UK’s largest housing providers. What are your IT goals for the next twelve months? And what are your longer-term goals? Over the next 12…
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024 - November 2011
Thrive outsources all IT services to Sovereign
Thrive Homes has completely outsourced all of its IT services to Sovereign Business Integration, with a 15-month contract beginning in December 2010 pending the open procurement of a longer-term contract starting in April 2012. Sovereign reported that existing IT team members from Thrive were transferred with full communication and collaboration under TUPE. Philip Day, resources…
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MET & Dtex System in security partnership for housing
With 70-80 per cent of information security breaches now originating from companies’ internal staff, outsourcing specialist MET and Dtex Systems have teamed up to deliver a new SystemSkan-based service to housing providers. SystemSkan automatically screens all user activity on a company’s network and can be configured to prevent and alert on inappropriate activities in real…
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Trent & Dove spends £140k on unified comms from IPFX
Trent & Dove Housing is about start the implementation of its new IPFX Director telephony and collaboration infrastructure. The suite includes unified communications, directory services, call accounting, call centre, conferencing, centralised voicemail and advanced ‘presence’ capabilities. IPFX reported that the value of the contract was around £140,000. IPFX Director will be implemented by Amillan, one…
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Datacentre services – Buy cheap, buy twice
Keeping the large volumes of confidential data held about their tenants and communities safe creates a huge headache for most housing providers. There are two major factors affecting the secure storage and management of housing providers’ data – the sheer amount of it and the pressure on costs. According to a recent article in The…
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WPH selects Datango for enterprise application adoption
Wirral Partnership Homes is using software from Datango to accelerate end-user adoption of its enterprise applications, in particular its Northgate housing management system. WPH is planning to upgrade its Northgate Housing application to a new web-based front end and with limited internal resources available to build documentation, education and support materials, Datango will automate the…
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