Salix Homes has reported that it is saving around £30,000 each year following its introduction of a mobile working system from Kirona, combined with a new housing management system from Northgate. Salix Homes’ six housing inspectors were given Motion CL 900 tablet devices and so could start their day by picking up their work on…
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037 - January 2014
Kirona wins ‘Little British Battler’ award
TechMarketView, in association with MXC Capital, has awarded Kirona a highly-coveted ‘Little British Battler’ award. The awards impartially celebrate and promote the success of 12 small- or medium-sized technology companies (less than £25m turnover) in the UK that punch above their weight. TechMarketView said that Kirona was chosen based on a strong operational, financial and…
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Auriga helps Viridian protect its tenant data
Viridian Housing is using Auriga Consulting’s DataACL services to ensure the continued protection of its tenant data and generate evidence that this duty of care had been performed. The dual phase project includes security gap analysis and a data management and landscaping programme, allowing the housing provider to perform systematic data capture and classification. Over…
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Housing Contact Company’s second win at Adactus Housing
The Housing Contact Company has announced its first contract for its Call2Collect service at Adactus Housing Group following the completion of a two-month free pilot project. The Call2Collect service supports earlier interventions for rent arrears by replacing expensive agent-based, outbound calling activity with an automated service designed to convert the collections of arrears into inbound…
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Universal credit – Still too much taxation?
Aside from Housing Technology’s continuing scepticism about the IT systems underpinning the ongoing implementation of universal credit, one of the little reported benefits of universal credit is how it will reduce the effective taxation on claimants’ earnings from almost 100 per cent to around 65 per cent. Or to put it another way, at present…
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Straight-through processing or mind the gap?
With most housing providers having a diverse selection of business applications running across their various operations, particularly when they have a ‘best of breed’ approach to the adoption of new technologies, Housing Technology interviewed a number of experts on how straight-through processing could improve housing providers’ operations and services to tenants. For many housing providers,…
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