At Housing Technology’s ‘Reform IT’ event in September 2013, a common theme emerged regarding the impact of universal credit and the experience from regional trials; and it was the impact on resources, rather than on debt. My notes from a number of presentations on the day include quotes such as “the key is to free…
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037 - January 2014
Success for Sentinel’s IT apprentice
Sentinel Housing has just taken on one of its apprentices as a full-time member of its IT team. Adrian Dunwell joined Sentinel’s apprenticeship scheme in September 2013 straight after leaving school in Wokingham. Adrian Dunwell said, “Originally I wanted to go to university, but I didn’t want the stress of debts and financial problems when…
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Ciber launches dedicated SAP centre for social housing
Leading SAP partner Ciber has launched a dedicated solution centre for SAP deployments within UK housing providers, combining the company’s SAP experts in the UK with its off-shore and near-shore SAP resources. The solution centre’s aim is to build a portfolio of interoperable and repeatable industry-specific solutions and custom applications based on SAP technologies. Alan…
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Irwell Valley Housing in harmony with Soprano
Irwell Valley Housing Association has successfully digitised its invoicing and purchase-to-pay (P2P) process using a Kofax-based OCR scanning system from Soprano Solutions and Data Capture Solutions. This follows Soprano’s original contract to supply Irwell Valley’s P2P service. The OCR system is being used first by the housing provider’s finance department to process 30,000 invoices each…
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SDM adds new staff
Technology company SDM Housing has expanded its development team in Cheshire with three new members of staff. Oxford University graduate Christopher Stokes joins the company as a junior programmer after completing a Master’s Degree in Mathematics and Jessica Smith joins as part of SDM’s apprenticeship scheme. On a three month secondment from Australia, Geoff Bomford…
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Mobile integration for Scottish Borders with NDL
Scottish Borders Housing Association has completed the final element of its mobile workforce programme with the use of NDL’s AWI integration technology to allow remote workers to close jobs while in the field. Scottish Borders’ original mobile working platform comprised Xmbrace Opti-Time for dynamic scheduling and Cognito for PDA-based mobile working. However, Scottish Borders’ staff…
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