Housing Technology interviewed Kevin Kivlochan, sales and marketing director of ONI, on how housing providers could use data centre services. Why should housing providers look at data centres? At a time of ever-growing reliance on IT, all housing providers need internal and external systems to be reliable, scalable and, most importantly, secure. Long before universal…
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042 - November 2014
Accent leaps forward with MIS ActiveH
Accent Group has just completed the upgrade of its ActiveH housing management system by six versions. Accent first implemented MIS-AMS’s ActiveH software in 2012. Although the implementation was a success, its operational systems suffered from teething problems caused by the integration of complex processes from three different subsidiaries. In 2013, Accent consolidated into a single…
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ThreeSixty Connections analytics & data management from Coactiva
Coactiva has launched a new data management and analytics solution to help housing providers maximise income, increase efficiencies and reduce fraud. Coactiva’s ThreeSixty Connections solution incorporates all of Coactiva’s fraud and revenue assurance solutions in one platform to give users a single view of each tenant, enabling a better approach to data matching and consolidation….
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Allpay supports payments channel shift
Allpay plans to enhance its current online and mobile payments, providing a complete payment gateway solution for housing providers and other organisations. The company, which handles more than £4.5 billion per year on behalf of its customers, already processes over 55 million transactions each year across cash, cards and direct debits, and Allpay’s mobile payment…
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Universal credit data sharing will help tenants
Following a consultation by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) around the sharing of universal credit claimant information with housing providers, Allpay has commented on some of the findings from the earlier universal credit pilot projects. Ross Macmillan, market intelligence consultant, Allpay, said, “By enabling the DWP to share up-to-date information on who has…
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North Lanarkshire’s 20% productivity boost with Kirona
Following the first phase of the introduction of Kirona’s mobile working and dynamic job scheduling software to technical officers and tradespersons across its housing service, North Lanarkshire Council has seen a 20 per cent increase in the productivity of its local homes teams. It has also achieved cashable savings in the region of £280,000 per…
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