SDM Housing Software has gained the internationally-recognised ISO 9001 registration from the British Assessment Bureau, demonstrating SDM’s commitment to customer service and quality in delivery. ISO 9001 was first introduced in 1987 and requires organisations to demonstrate that they do what they say they do and that they have a quality management system in place…
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Family Housing cuts lone worker risk with Identicom
Family Housing has equipped its field-based staff and other lone workers with Connexion2’s award winning and ACPO ‘secured by design’ accredited lone worker devices. Family Housing’s previous method for lone worker safety relied on a dedicated button on a mobile phone to raise the alarm if the lone worker felt threatened. However, the housing provider’s…
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Through the looking glass – Data, transparency and housing
Every minute of every day, we generate immense, astonishing amounts of data. We send more than 204 million emails, share in excess of 100,000 Tweets and download over 47,000 applications every sixty seconds. The world’s information is doubling every year. Big data is a huge issue, and it’s shaping social and economic change. There are…
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UK vs. The Netherlands
From: Joop Schoppers, IT manager, Woningcorporatie De Woonplaats Sir – In The Netherlands, we have about nine IT suppliers in the social housing sector and the number of housing providers has decreased in the last few years because of mergers. The suppliers therefore need to work harder to get new customers, and a new customer…
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Accounting for size
From: Karen Conneely, Group commercial manager, Real Asset Management Sir – With over 1,200 housing providers in the UK and over two-thirds of those managing fewer than 2,000 homes, smaller organisations are facing a problem. They have the same requirements when it comes to SORP and component accounting as a larger organisation, but they don’t…
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A decade of Windows 8
From: Tobie Fysh, Systems developer, Freebridge Community Housing Sir – In reply to the letter from Harneck Chilemba (finance director, Tower Hamlets Community Housing) in the January issue, a quick search at microsoft.com/lifecycle shows that Windows 8 Enterprise will reach ‘extended support’ on 10 January 2023 (just under a decade away at the time of…
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