Orchard has been chosen by Isle of Anglesey County Council for the provision of a new housing management system. Orchard reported that as part of ‘a substantial six-figure contract over seven years’, it will be implementing Orchard Housing alongside its mobile working and asset management products. Paul Harper, IT project manager, Isle of Anglesey County…
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Phoenix’s £450,000 Orchard implementation
Orchard Information Systems has just started the implementation of a new housing management system at Phoenix Community Housing. The £450,000 contract is based on the IT company’s Orchard Housing system alongside Orchard Mobile and Orchard Asset Management, the latter powered by Keystone. Phoenix’s decision to replace its existing housing management system was due to its…
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Halton Housing Trust to implement Aareon housing system
Cheshire-based Halton Housing Trust is set to deploy Aareon’s complete QL Housing suite, with the first phase of the project expected to be live by July 2012. The project is part of HHT’s ‘improving customer experience’ (ICE) programme which began in 2009, with a review of its core ICT systems taking place in March 2011….
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Orchard’s apprentices
We applaud the decision by Orchard Information Systems to start an apprenticeship scheme (see page 4) for local school leavers who don’t want to go to university (or perhaps can’t afford it, given the cost of fees these days). The year-long apprenticeships are mutually beneficial, with the apprentices having the opportunity to ‘earn while they…
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Editor’s notes: Housing without frontiers
We are predicting that the growth in mobile working for both in-house and field-based workers, the increase in unified communications and cloud services, and the widespread availability of tablets and smartphone devices will form the ‘perfect storm’ necessary to cause a revolution in the way housing providers run their operations and the agility with which…
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