It only takes a few minutes’ reading the Information Commissioner’s Office website before anyone with any experience of data protection and information security will have their head in their hands, asking themselves why so many organisations are leaving themselves open to public declarations about their security failings. More significantly, with the huge number of publicised…
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028 - July 2012
Queens Cross Housing gets online HR from Access
Following two years of growth, Glasgow-based Queens Cross Housing Association has replaced its manual, paper-based HR processes with a web-based system from Access. The SelectHR tool will be used by QCHA to automate holiday requests and approvals and use workflow to make appraisals, health and safety, and flexi-time processes more efficient. The second phase of…
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Mercato – Housing providers top list of poor value IT
The UK’s housing providers top a list of organisations paying over the odds for software from their IT resellers, according to new research from Mercato. The benchmarking company found that housing providers are paying exorbitant margins of up to seven times (731%) more than their resellers’ original costs, with the average margin being 36 per…
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The new way we work – brainstorming
As introduced in the previous edition of Housing Technology, the ‘new way we work’ has been on the rise in The Netherlands since 2005. A large number of Dutch housing providers are in the process of implementing New Way We Work projects. Within some of these a new way of brainstorming is being used in…
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All change – Microsoft’s licensing terms for social housing
As many of you will already know, Microsoft announced several months ago that it was likely to make significant changes to the licensing terms available to housing associations and RSLs for its software. Just before going to press with this issue, Housing Technology interviewed a number of leading housing providers and a housing consultancy on…
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Whose business is it anyway?
From: Anthony Fellows, Interim head of housing, Yorkshire Housing Sir – I have worked in the housing sector my entire career and over the years have seen attempts to implement new technology to improve business performance result in varying degrees of success. I would not lay claim to be an IT expert and indeed often…
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