An independent survey commissioned by Kana Software of IT executives from housing providers managing a combined portfolio of more than 1.5 million properties in the UK has found that while most recognise the importance of new technology in delivering efficiencies and better services to tenants, fewer than 20 per cent have a full understanding of…
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040 - July 2014
Collaborate to innovate
The relationship between a housing provider and a software provider should never be an arms-length one, explains Gavin Hitchcock, head of ICT at Futures Housing Group. At Futures Housing Group, we have reaped the benefits of an increasingly close working relationship with our software provider Orchard Information Systems. From this has come a suite of…
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Octavia trial makes district heating hot topic for landlords
A pilot project by Octavia Housing is helping landlords re-think how they deliver heat and tackle fuel poverty in thousands of properties across the UK supplied by district heating systems, by allowing them to monitor system performance and energy use in real-time. Octavia has teamed up with green energy specialist Guru Systems for the project,…
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Suits you, Sir
Once, social landlords used software applications that had been developed inhouse or as bespoke solutions by contracted developers. At first these systems delivered huge advances in productivity and were well regarded. However over time, they became unwieldy, difficult to maintain and, in the worst cases, impossible to develop. Lack of documentation and staff turnover could…
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