Inspired by Housing Technology’s ‘New Way of Working’ event at the BT Tower in June, I want to explore further what opportunities might be waiting to be discovered from looking at Europe and beyond. I decided to do some research and analyse what our foreign partners are doing to tackle their particular social housing issues…
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029 - September 2012
Ko-Su app for mobile training and learning
Ko-Su has launched a smartphone app to help housing providers achieve their mobile strategies for tenant engagement, regulatory training, and key updates. The Ko-Su platform is designed to enable housing providers to develop mobile-optimised interactive activities, training and learning communities. Ko-Su can be used on any platform via a browser and has a free native…
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Augmented reality in housing
We are all familiar with smartphone applications like Tom Tom and Google Maps, and they can be extremely useful tools for navigation around our estates. However, soon it will be possible to use augmented reality (AR) applications to provide estate-based staff with far more information. It is already possible to develop a mobile application that…
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Review of Accent’s ‘TriStar’ ICT replacement project
Accent Group’s head of ICT, Stuart Duthie, discusses the recent modernisation of the housing provider’s complete IT infrastructure. Accent Group has recently modernised its entire ICT environment, replacing seven legacy systems in three housing associations with a single group-wide system supplied by MIS Active Management Systems. Rather than just replacing the systems, Accent took the…
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Tower Hamlets extends Sovereign contract
Tower Hamlets Community Housing said that it has extended its contract with Sovereign Business Integration Group for outsourced ICT for another year. Sovereign’s original contract covered all of Tower Hamlet’s IT requirements, including support for its core housing systems as well as its technical IT infrastructure. Since outsourcing its IT to Sovereign, Tower Hamlets has…
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SharePoint 2010 at Golden Gates with ISG Technology
Continuing last issue’s story about Golden Gates Housing and ISG Technology (July 2012, page 22), the housing provider has now signed a contract for Microsoft SharePoint 2012 with the technology provider. The contract is worth in the region of £100,000. ISG’s implementation of SharePoint will provide Golden Gates with a unified platform for internal communications…
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