The software company was awarded the business professional certificate by Newcastle Central MP Chi Onwurah at TechUK’s annual dinner in London. TechUK’s certificate accredits IT companies that can demonstrate best practice in security, business continuity, project management, risk management, customer care, corporate and social responsibility and human resources. Receiving the award, Orchard’s finance director, Nick…
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Scottish Housing Regulator launches landlord portal with CompanyNet and Microsoft
The Scottish Housing Regulator (SHR) has recently launched its social landlord portal to enable housing providers to report the progress they are making towards the Scottish Social Housing Charter, built on a bespoke system created by CompanyNet, a specialist Microsoft consultancy in Edinburgh. The SHR’s business intelligence programme arose from the introduction of the Scottish…
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Family Mosaic reports on UC pilot with Allpay
In the light of the welfare reforms, Family Mosaic has reported how it has been using Allpay’s swipe cards and payments services to minimise arrears during its participation in one of the government’s direct payment demonstration projects. The contract value was reported to be in the region of £160,000. Family Mosaic has been using Allpay’s…
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Peabody cuts arrears with Mobysoft
Mobysoft’s housing intelligence product RentSense is helping Peabody to provide targeted support to tenants affected by welfare reform. Working with Mobysoft, it has implemented the rent arrears decision engine which uses complex algorithms to analyse accounts and pinpoint which cases need further attention. This gives Peabody the insight to better support those affected, and use…
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Capita offers Pingit payments with Barclays
Capita has integrated Barclays’ Pingit mobile payment app into its payment solutions, and is now offering its existing housing payments customers the option to receive payments from their tenants via the app. Tenants will be able to pay their rent using a smartphone to scan a QR code on their rent statement and make a…
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Habinteg Housing leads European IT project
Tenants at Habinteg Housing Association are in the middle of a ten-month trial of new household technologies as part of the pan-European I-stay@home programme (Housing Technology, November 2012) alongside partners and tenants from France, Germany, Holland and Belgium. Habinteg is rolling out the trials in the UK with 22 Habinteg tenants in London taking part….
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